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"This family narrative follows four families [John Bartlett Mason, Joseph B. Foster, Perkins Allen, and James John Hammontree] as their lives converge in Colorado in the 1860s and early 1870s (Chapters I-IV). A fifth family is that of Anderson Lafayette Mason and Nancy Eleanor Foster who met, then married in Central City, Colorado in 1875-1876 (Chapter V). Lafe and Nancy Mason raised their two boys, Charles Lewis and Harry Eugene Mason in Balarat Camp and Jamestown, Colorado. The sixth chapter brings together these families through the marriage of Charles Lewis Mason and Mabel Theresa Allen, from whom we descend in the 20th Century (Chapter VI). The final chapter, "The Mason Siblings", summarizes the lives of the children of Charles and Mabel Mason in the 20th century to about 1960 (Chapter VII)."

Views of the Smuggler Mine at Balarat in Boulder County. Some of the people are identified.

Six digital documents pertaining to the Perkins Allen family.

The photographs digitized in this record were glued onto pages of an album titled "Left Hand, Jim Creek" which was organized by Martin R. Parsons. There are 42 pages in the album that include views of Altona, Lefthand Canyon, Springdale, Jamestown and the surrounding area and families. If a photograph has been digitized, it is thought to be a unique image in the Carnegie Library for Local History collections. Some photographs are by photographer Joseph Sturtevant.