Route 66 Installment #30: Tom’s Baby
Reading Time: 3 minutes No, I’m not pregnant. Tom’s Baby is the name of a gold nugget that weighed more than 11 pounds and was found in Colorado in 1887. The prospector who found it (Tom Groves) swaddled it like an infant when he showed it off in Breckenridge. Gold nuggets (gigantic and tiny) are everywhere. That’s metaphorical, not […]
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