By James McTighe
ISBN-10: 1555660541
ISBN-13: 9781555660543
On the grounds that Colorado’s roads so frequently lack ancient markers, such a lot motorists stay ignorant of the wealthy old institutions of each a part of the country. With this amiable better half, the visitor will locate that even the bleakest stretch of interstate has its exact and colourful previous. each journey, even if for company or excitement, will be an inventive trip into the earlier of the gold rush, the Indian wars, the explorers, the mountain males, pioneers, and cattlemen. background from the street is a distinct suggestion, making to be had a lot of the earlier that may rather be inaccessible with no tedious learn and map paintings. anywhere the vacationer occurs to be, she or he might be capable of finding what ancient occasion happened in that region with no need to depend upon symptoms and markers, that are infrequent. Keyed to cities and mile markers, the ebook comprises each interstate, street and significant highway within the nation.
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In a way it prefigured what we read today about computer crime perpetrated by hackers. At that time the Union Pacific railroad had just reached Julesburg, but telegraph lines had already been strung from Omaha to the Pacific. Page 15 One day in October 1867 three men got off the train from Chicago. They were all ex-employees of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The leader of the trio, George Cowdrey, had worked for the telegraph company for seven years, then left under a cloud. A second man, Frank Osborn, was a telegrapher in Chicago who had just been fired.
Such vicissitudes demanded an etiquette. To meet this need someone devised what was called the Ten Commandments of the Butterfield stage line: 1. The best seat is the forward one, next to the driver. 2. If the stage teams run away or are pursued by Indians, stay in the coach and take your chances. Don't jump out, for you'll be either injured or scalped. 3. In cold weather abstain from liquor. 4. But if you are drinking from a bottle, pass it around. 5. Don't smoke a strong cigar . . spit to the leeward side.
Fort Wicked Fort Wicked, otherwise known as Godfrey's Station of the Overland Stage route, lay two and a half miles south of Merino on the right bank of the river, due west of Milepost 112. Thanks to the doughty Holon Godfrey and his equally doughty wife and two daughters, Fort Wicked was the only stage stop between the forks of the Platte River and Denver that was not destroyed by Indians in the 1864-65 war. S. 50 itinerary). Brush At the headwaters of Beaver Creek fifty miles south of Exit 90 at Brush, the Texas-Montana cattle trail entered the watershed of the South Platte at the divide separating it from that of the Arkansas River.
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