Thanks for the article on upcoming history book

Thanks to the Daily for Robert Allen's great story on my upcoming Breckenridge history book, which marks the town's 150th anniversary.

If I could add anything to that good reporting, I would say this:

Summit Daily News readers, especially the history lovers among them, may enjoy learning about a savvy group of field historians who are delving into Breckenridge history at key local historical sites.

These hiking historians have discovered the exact route and ruins of the famous Great Flume of 1870s legend.

They have paced out the building print of long-gone structures of the 1890s-born ghost town, Swandyke.

They have proved that the existing Washington Mine buildings in Illinois Gulch, a local historic site, are only part of a much larger and most impressive Washington Mine complex.

They have scrambled through brush and willows to uncover relics of rotting gold dredge boats.

Most recently, they have unearthed convincing evidence of the precise location of the 1859 gold discovery party's protective fort, Fort Meribeh or Mary B, despite the nearly 150 years of evidence-erasing time since its construction.

These Breckenridge field historians are Rick Hague, Bill Fountain, Maureen Nicholls and Rich Skovlin.

They deserve credit from all of us who relish local lore.