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Wagon train at Ute Pass - Colorado 1885
The trail Wagon train at Ute Pass - Colorado 1885
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A dilapidated saloon building in Wetmore, Custer County, Colorado (1891)
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Brand New Buffalo Bills
This is the last photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody, taken outside his doctor’s office, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, seven days before he died of kidney failure in Denver on January 10, 1917. - Courtesy Cowan's Auctions -
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"O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain" Katharine Lee Bates. August 12, 1859: Poet Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write her best known work, America the Beautiful, after a trip to Colorado's Pikes Peak. The poem became a popular national anthem. She was born in Massachusetts, 154 years ago today.
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1915 San Juan Indians- cliff dwellings at Manitou, Co
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Photo of 30 Bars of Silver in Black Hawk, Colorado, 1878. Photo taken in Black Hawk in front of the the Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Co.. Nathaniel Hill, manager of the smelter is standing in front door. Superintendent Pearce is standing at the far left with his hand in his pocket.
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Alfred "Alferd" Packer The Cannibal of Lake City, Colorado
ALFERD PACKER - cannibal. In 1873, after guiding a group of prospective gold miners into the Colorado mountains, an early and severe winter storm descended on the group who became lost. Months later Packer emerged alone. Evidence indicated Packer may have killed and eaten his companions. (FUN FACT-the cafeteria at CU Boulder is named after him, with the slogan "have a friend for lunch!" Talk about some twisted humor!)
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Ouray (Ute leader) - Wikipedia
Native American, Chief Ouray of the Ute Indian Tribe was considered a peacemaker and was well respected by many people of his era. Read more at Suite101: Chief Ouray Was a Big Part of the History of Colorado |
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The Million Dollar Highway is a section of U.S. Route 550 in Colorado from Silverton to Ouray. The photo shows the old Million Dollar Highway route before it was built.
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Georgetown, Colorado. Mining town between 1865-1875
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Doc Holliday's Grave, Glenwood Springs
Visit Doc Holliday's grave in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. www.visitglenwood.com
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Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
In 1893, the time the novel is set, Colorado became the second state in the union to give women the vote.
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Kittredge Building Denver Colorado :: History Colorado 1890-1900
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Is the Molly Brown house haunted?
Molly Brown House, Denver, CO - was built in the 1880's and is famous for it's previous owner, the "Unsinkable Molly Brown". Once set for demolition, it has been preserved and restored, and now serves as a museum. Activity includes shades opening and closing on their own, shadow figures, the smell of cigar smoke (non-smoking house - Molly's husband was known as a heavy cigar smoker) and apparitions.