Solitary miners’ camp lights dotted the mountain darkness at night.

Evidence

It was strange to be the only human being at that glacial altitude, and to descend again through a foot of untrodden snow and over sloping sheets of ice into the darkness, and to see the hill sides like a firmament of stars, each showing the place where a solitary man in his hole was delving for silver. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 453

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