Recollections of My Life and Reflections on Times and Events During It: A Memoir by Father W. J. Howlett

His oldest brother (Michael Howlett) goes to the Pike's Peak gold mines, Spring 1860

"He had gone with my oldest brother to the Pike's Peak gold mines the previous spring during the gold rush, and had contracted a cold which settled on his lungs and developed into consumption."

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