| Show Masked Dancing I Girl Girl Recalled n I Old Prospector Tells Tell of Famed Silver Heels Heels' 1 of Mining Camps Camp COLD COLO The The vision of Sliver Silver Heels mysterious masked dancing girl formed Itself in the pipe smoke of Col Cot Henry Maher Maheras at as the old prospector told the story of the beautiful girl lId whose strange name hat has been a legend in Rocky mountain mining camps campt for more than two generations Maher hat has spent mot most of hit his 85 83 years in the search learch for gold laId and silver He crimped the tobacco Into his pipe and aneS set let down before hit his fireplace recounting the story of the mysterious woman who earned for herself the name of the Florence Flor Flora enc ence Nightingale of the mining camps camp She was u roun young She was wat grace ful tuL She was masked to so well waR that she foiled tolled all til attempts to Identify her hr The old miners miner's I eyes eyet gained a anew anew new brightness at u he described her herthe herthe herthe the the winsome woman who refuted refused to reveal her face tace or her ber name Named by bJ Miners Miner So 80 beautiful was wat the and she and so 0 car Ca ca capable pable a dancer that dancer that the hard hard bitten gold christened her ber Silver SUver Heels after alter the metallic slippers she wore wort si u she he danced fife Th girl was wu known only at as Silver Sil vet ver Hell Heels Without warning or advance advance ad ad- vance billing she would appear mysteriously mysteriously mys mys- to dance danci in the cabarets In Park Pak City Alms Alma Montgomery and narb nearby mining camps Always the she was wal dressed beautifully nl and masked After her dance was wu unshed finished she Ih would disappear just at as mysterious mysterious- ly tr She never appeared In public without her face covered b by a heavy veil yeU or 01 a mask mat There were wert Imaginative accounts that she ahe was a southern girl whose family bad had lost lott its ita fortune In the Civil war These reports she Ihl i ig cored nored And she Iba was as straight st II a string kin Colonel Maher Mahr emphasized emphasised Everybody loved and respected her because lle she Ih wun wasn't like lib the garden garden gar den variety of hall girls of that t time Urne I Z 4 remember one once a drunken gambler attempted to embrace her ber during a dane I war wat only ont one of a score core or more mar of 01 men who virtually made mincemeat of him I Everyone rOD Lo Loved HerThe Her The lb real reason everyone loved her ht he added was war because beca she ahe was war an aD angel an angel an angel of mercy to the miners and their families Often Otten she ahe would nurse nurl an injured miner back to health She was wat known toI to I have grubstaked several of the boys bOJI j whose whole luck failed them Once Onci the she risked her ber lift life da day and night roM for tor a week when a minor smallpox epidemic epi demic struck on one of the camps camp The dancer lived in the mining district for a number of years fun One Oneda da day she h disappeared at a mysterious mysterious- mysteriously ly tr at as she had haeS arrived It was supposed sup tup- posed that the she returned to her home bome In the is southland But wt WI did the best beat we w. could toward toward to to- ward wareS preserving her memory In fact we wt gave av her the highest honor the West can pay paT a person Maher declared Ont One day daT a group roup of us w were discussing the mineral pOll I- I of the surrounding moun tibia taint Ont One of the men pointed to one ont of the highest peaks pub In the area That mountain Is b like Sliver Silver Keels Hail he ht said IBid Beautiful to look on OD and anel with a heart of gold Sliver Silver Heel Hl mountain has bal had hael I her name since that day dy Theresa Theres There's a mountain wt we can be proud of t |
