Nathaniel Herrick dreamed of forging a life for his family in the mountains of central Colorado. Though he worked hard to achieve that goal, it slipped from his dying fingers the same year he got started. In 1887, coal and silver mining camps littered the landscape of Colorado, and companies running these operations needed timber for various construction efforts. Herrick saw an opportunity to provide for those companies and his family at the same time. He planned to establish a timber harvesting and milling operation along Newlin Creek, under the shadow…
