Walking in the northern Colorado foothills, the author discovered an abandoned ranch. Intrigued, he unearthed the social history of the area as well as the life stories of three eccentric people who inhabited the ranch in the first half of the 20th century. Rancher John Elliot ran one of the biggest spreads in Livermore. Ida Meyer, his wife, de


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