Monte Cristo

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* Meticulously researched, engagingly written stories
* Filled with historical photographs

The Monte Cristo area, pocketed in spectacularly beautiful mountains within the Pacific Northwest, has long intrigued visitors with its colorful history, rooted within the seek for gold and silver as wealthy as the Count of Monte Cristo. Here is your complete story, from discovery to disillusionment as dreamed-of riches became the dust of a ghost town.

The several decades of Monte Cristo’s glory also saw the construction of the unique Everett & Monte Cristo Railway (a marvelous engineering mistake), and the founding of the city of Everett as a processing and shipping point for the expected riches of Monte’s minesñall manipulated by Eastern corporate giants such as Rockefeller and the Guggenheims. After which there were the peopleñthe struggling railroaders, miners, merchants and their families, who dreamed, worked, failed and once in a while died in Monte Cristo’s unforgiving winters.

What used to be the real extent of Monte Cristo’s fabled riches? How could the skilled geologists of the day be so unsuitable? The answers, for Monte Cristo like such a lot of other boom-and-bust towns of the Old West, make fascinating reading.


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