Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons
CHAPTER III.
IN LEADVILLE.
The South Park line--Oscar Wilde on sunflowers as food--In a wash-hand basin--Anti-Vigilance Committees--Leadville the city of the carbonates--"Busted" millionaires--The philosophy of thick boots--Colorado miners--National competition in lions--Abuse of the terms "gentleman" and "lady"--Up at the mines--Under the pine-trees.