Hazel Wringle

Marble Springs 2.0 screenshot of Hazel Wringle

What we know

1862-1874
Only daughter of Jenny and Peter Wringle, she was 11 when her family left Connecticut to follow the gold rush into Colorado. She succumbed to the ague¹ shortly after reaching Marble Springs

Footnotes

1. Ague
A type of malaria that often brought the gold-seekers low.

Abandoned

On their long journey
West, they kept
sinking¹ into the tall
sunburnt grasses.

Hazel played a game
with the buffalo bones
whose whitened wholeness
bleached the grasses around them.

This one is Charley, that one is Marley
Bill Bennett Bailey, Mary Jenkins Railey.

And the bones grasped
at the sounds,
soaking in the names
that Hazel left behind.

Footnotes

1. Item 1849. Lastly, the Child’s Bedstead must not be placed too low on the floor, because the bad air is within one or two feet from the floor while the most wholesome, or atmospheric air, is in the middle of the room, and the inflammable gas ascends to the top. Enquire within upon Everything

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A drawing of a covered wagon with bovine skull in the foreground.
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Katy Stoner
Chirpy Stokes

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