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The Last Assumption They Made Was the Worst One

The telegram arrived at 2:47 in the afternoon, and no one considered it urgent. The Hartley Alpine Survey expedition had been camped at the Fourteen Mile Station in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado for eleven days in February 1902. They were cataloging mineral deposits for the United States Geological Survey—three geologists, two engineers, a surveyor, a photographer, and four camp assistants. Fourteen people in total, none of them strangers to winter field work. The camp sat at 11,200 feet, sheltered in a bowl of spruce and exposed granite, accessible by a supply trail that switchbacked down through timber and eventually met the railroad spur at Silverton, twenty-three miles to the southeast.