I Never Knew That About Colorado

by Fay, Abbott

• ISBN13: 9781890437176
• ISBN10: 1890437174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Western Reflections Pub Co

Summary

In his book I Never Knew That About Colorado, author and historian Abbott Fay presents a unique compilation of long-forgotten and little-publicized happenings of Colorado history. While this book is not essentially a book of trivia, some of the items might be considered trivial. Unless an item is described as questionable, it is the result of cross-documentation that indicates it really happened beyond a reasonable doubt. This book is great fun as the reader browses the fringe of Colorado history.

Table of Contents

About Original Coloradans	1	(15)
Where the Anasazi Culture Comes to Life
What Did the Word ``Cheyenne'' Mean?
Slavery in Colorado After the Civil War
Lo, the Poor Indian!
Buckskin Charlie's Return to Boulder
There Was No Chief Ouray
Colorow's Big Game Round-Up in Middle Park
About Remarkable Folks	15	(22)
Stained Glass Window Honors Theodore Roosevelt
The Doctor Who Made Real House Calls
How Stanley Got to Africa
Some Middle-aged Men Shouldn't Have Gone West
Elks Lodge Founder Died in Leadville
The Blind Poet of the San Juan Mountains
Mr. Hershey's Candy Bar Conceived in Denver
Jim Bridger's Struggle With William Shakespeare
Laura Evans' Morality Lecture
Rattlesnake Kate
The Guardians of St. Elmo
How Nucla Conquered the Nation
Last Widow of a Slave and Civil War Veteran
Physician, Take Out Thine Own Appendix!
A Telluride Banker Saved His Town by Swindling
Only One Colorado High School Graduated a Nobel Prize Winner
About Farmers and Ranchers	37	(8)
No Crops at All
The Yuma Beefeaters
Ranchers Strung Barbed Wire, Too
Succulent Fruits and Veggies
Music and Back-Scratching
Colorado's Oldest Saddle Horse
About Military Affairs	45	(8)
The Other Ski Troops at Camp Hale
Discipline in Early Colorado Forts
Colorado's Women Warriors
The Spoils of War
Adolf Hitler's Colorado Ranch
The Bombing of Colorado in World War II
About Laws and Outlaws	53	(14)
Those Postmen on Skis
These Were Some of the Laws
Some Notes on Women's Suffrage in Colorado
Colorado's Cruelest Utopian Hoax
Whiskey Hole: An Early-day Economic Welfare Program
When Baldwin Conquered Vulcan
Dealing with Confirmed Criminals
The Honor System of the Wilderness
Colorado's Most Outrageous Mass Murderer
About Superlative Places	67	(12)
The World's Longest Water Tunnel
World's Highest Telescope in the 1880s
The Original Hard Rock Cafe
Largest Letter in the Western Hemisphere
Dimes in the Black Canyon?
Old Colorado City's Post Office Box
The Twelve Thousand Keys of Baldpate
America's First Junior High School
A Hidden Retreat for Scientists
Did ``No Night in Creede'' Mean Something Else?
About Colorado Climate	79	(10)
The Angel of Shavano and the Holy Cross
How Deep Was That Snow?
Gunnison Basks in Frozen Sunshine
When it Snowed Ducks on I-70
Colorado's Worst Dust Storm
The Magic Crossing of a Flooded River
Of Droughts and Super-Droughts
About Flora and Fauna	89	(10)
Grizzly Legends
The Busiest of Beavers
This Tree Was Alive When Socrates Taught
Not So Old, But Mighty Big
Wildflowers, Tiny and Mammoth
That's a Lot of Bull Elk!
Ants Eat Bed Bugs
Our Elusive State Bird
About Rocks, Minerals and Mines	99	(12)
When Super-Radiation Was Thought Healthful
That Lovely Lapis Lazuli
Aquamarine and Pure Crystal
Record Nuggets
Ho, Hum --- Just Silver and Gold
Grand Junction's Booms: Uranium and Tailings
Minerals Named After Coloradans
Boredom with an Eight-Hour Workday
About Names and Places	111	(20)
It Was Certain to Happen
Folk Etymology: How We Say It!
The Singing Sands of Alamosa and China
Town Named for a Famous Cartoonist
America's Second Biggest Earth Slide
Trail City Straddled the Colorado-Kansas Border
The Kingdom of Las Animas
The Colorado Fjords
Way up There in Leadville
Southernmost Glacier in the Nation
Is Colorado a Rectangle?
Peak Name Altered with Lindbergh's Fall from Grace
The World's Largest Flat Top Mountain
Tiny Hinsdale County's Remarkable Records
Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names
About Muscular Achievements	131	(8)
Jack Dempsey's First Professional Fight
Founder of Basketball Won M. D. Degree in Denver
Anyone For a Game of Cricket?
Colorado's Highest Vertical Climb
Jumping into Deep Canyons
About The Arts	139	(6)
State Song Inspired at Little-Known Pass
Father George's Amazing Leadville Murals
Colorado's Longest-Running Plays
Colorado's Unique College Campus
About Getting Around	145	(12)
Strasburg's Claim to the Golden Spike
Those Dubious Wind-Carts Crossing the Plains
Alphabetical Railroad Stations
Automobile Manufacturing in Colorado
Relocation of Vail Pass
When Highways Were Better-Known by Names
The Gallopin' Gosling
Those Fantastic Colorado Highways
Colorado's Oldest Operating Hotel
About the Queen City	157	(8)
The Man Who Lit up Denver
Auraria Named for a Georgia Town
Those Kitty-Cornered Streets in Downtown Denver
Mount Lincoln and Colfax Avenue
Mark Twain and Denver Censorship
When Nails Were King
Denver's National Party Convention
About Grave Matters	165
The Only Hotel With a Crematorium
Don't Trust All Tombstones
The Man Who Wore Out His Coffin
Two Notable Stray Dog Graves
An 8,000-Year-Old Mountaineer