Mount Silverheels
| Mount Silverheels | |
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Mount Silverheels from Boreas Pass.
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 13,829 ft (4,215 m) |
| Prominence | 2,283 ft (696 m) |
| Isolation | 5.48 mi (8.82 km) |
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| Coordinates | 39°20′22″N 106°00′19″W / 39.3393949°N 106.0053607°WCoordinates: 39°20′22″N 106°00′19″W / 39.3393949°N 106.0053607°W |
| Geography | |
 Mount Silverheels
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| Location | Park County, Colorado, U.S. |
| Parent range | Front Range |
| Topo map |
USGS 7.5' topographic map Alma, Colorado |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | hike |
Mount Silverheels is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,829-foot (4,215 m) thirteener is located in Pike National Forest, 4.9 miles (7.9 km) northeast (bearing 41°) of the Town of Alma in Park County, Colorado, United States.
Mount Silverheels is just east of two fourteeners: Mount Bross and Mount Lincoln.
The mountain was named for Silverheels, a dance hall girl in the nearby mining camp of Buckskin Joe, now a ghost town. She was nicknamed "Silverheels" because of the silver shoes she wore while dancing. She wore a blue or white mask so as to conceal her face, and her actual name is unknown. Well-compensated by the trappers and prospectors who watched her dance, Silverheels was personally generous, having used her own money to bring in doctors during a smallpox epidemic in Buckskin Joe. After the disease waned, Silverheels left Buckskin Joe and was never heard from again. In the words of Frank H. Mayer, a United States marshal in Park County: "The best we could do was to name the mountain after her."
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