Buckskin Joe was the mining camp that created one of the most
delightful Colorado legends. Silverheels was a beautiful dancehall
girl who stayed to nurse the miners during a smallpox epidemic after
all the other women fled. Later, when the miners raised a purse to
reward her, she could not be found. Smallpox had attacked and
ravaged her beauty; so she disappeared. In memory, Mount Silverheels
was named for her.
[Illustration: D.K.P., 1960]
[Illustration: _D.K.P., 1960_]