We had a wonderful stay in Breckenridge at an Airbnb. What's interesting is how Breckenridge is a skiing town and you can see that we are in the off-season, but there's so much about its mining history. We went to the Iowa Trail and they have an Interactive part of it that talks about the mining. I need to revisit it because Carrie hurt her knee. Then we go to a park that looked for interesting and it's called Tom's baby Park. Tom's baby was named because Tom found a golden nugget and swaddled it in a blanket. So the whole park has a statue about this gold mining person.
I'm going to visit the museum tomorrow when it opens. But I think it's just fascinating because Breckenridge is made of tourists and you have all the tourism stuff down on Main Street. But there are no fast food restaurants. Everything is local.
But then you have the locals you can see people are made of money from the people who are just scrapping.
Next to our Airbnb is a house of four different vehicles. So it's not high range but just a house but by Topeka standards still would be very expensive.
There's definitely this idea of class even those who are prospecting for gold. That something allowed people to freelance in Hunt For Gold on their own which is what Breckenridge is all about and emphasizes. But in Leadville where the town is poorer still the mining emphasis is on how rough and difficult the conditions were in the mines. However there was the idea of climax which they do talk about as a mining town
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