kat!!..my father was on the Western Union line gang which ran the telegraph lines up to the Moffat tunnel (and from Salida to Denver...etc.)I have old black and white photos of his gang posed up by the tunnel....the neatest gift I ever found for him was a coffee table book of the history of that tunnel! About 25 years ago, a friend & I found our way to the westen portal where those pictures were taken.

My earliest years were spent in a '35 Chevy bouncing around in those mountains..(1939-41)..my mother says we nearly slid off of Battle Mountain one winter..

I do that song on the autoharp...I think I heard Mike Seeger do it that way years ago...