Colorado Curiosities : Rattlesnake Kate, The Crying Bridge, Kit Carson's Last Trip & More.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brick, Cindy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders--Colorado.

Curiosities and wonders.

Colorado--History--Anecdotes.

Colorado.

Colorado--Biography--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Colorado Curiosities

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2021.

Summary:

Colorados Front Range, Western Slope, eastern plains and southern approaches were home to some of the states stranger people, places and events. Meet Mike the Headless Chicken from Fruita and a Fort Collins architect who designed a university building to house his wife - after he killed her. Learn about Florences The Alcatraz of the Rockies or Doc Hollidays final breaths in Glenwood Springs. Dig into the odd conspiracy theories and underground city connected to the Denver International Airport. Walk alongside dinosaur tracks, scout out old mines and ancient petroglyphs or climb into Mesa Verdes shaded, mysterious cliff dwellings. Cindy Brick shares quirky, odd and intriguing episodes in Colorado history.

Contents:

Intro

Half Tile

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Points North

Shades of Colorado State (Fort Collins)

Rattlesnake Kate (Hudson)

We All Scream for Ice Cream (Fort Collins)

The Man Who Sold Cars-and Himself (Broomfield)

Driven to Read (Arvada)

Food Oddities (Statewide)

2. Points East

The Mysteries of DIA and Its Tunnels Beneath (Northeast Denver/Adams County)

The Uninvited Guest in the Yellow House (Elizabeth)

Sand Creek and Other Massacres (Elbert County, Statewide)

The Crying Bridge (Arapahoe County)

The Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy (Towner, Kiowa County)

3. Points Central

How Denver Became Denver (Denver)

Newspaper Wars (Denver)

Denver-Born or Bred...and Proud of It (Denver)

One Day, Three Different Governors (Statewide)

Denver's Chinatown (Denver)

Another Yellow Peril-Solved in a Day (Denver)

The Crook with the Squeaky-Clean Approach (Denver, Creede, Skagway)

The Mayor and the KKK (Denver, Statewide)

Ruined Splendor: The Sad Fate of Baby Doe and Molly Brown's Mansions (Denver)

Denver's Mafia, Gaetano's and Dimes (North Denver)

What's with the "Golfballs?" (Denver)

4. Points West

Chief Niwot, Chief Little Raven and the Curse of Boulder Valley (Boulder)

Run, Ralphie, Run! (Boulder)

Yes, It's a Codex (Boulder)

Elvis's Favorite Sandwich: The Fool's Gold and Nick's Café (Golden)

Recording Hits in a Ghost Town (Caribou/Nederland)

Colorado's "Escape" Flu Community (Gunnison)

The House Where Time Stood Still (Central City)

Tom's Baby (Breckenridge, Denver)

Elijah the Wonder Horse (Western Slope)

The Baddest Game in Town (Florence)

Mike the Headless Chicken for President! (Fruita)

Doc Holliday Dies (Glenwood Springs)

5. Points South.

Alfred Packer: Let's Eat! (Lake City, Montrose, Saguache, Denver, Littleton)

Hangman's Gulch and Devils Head Robbery Money (Castle Rock, Deckers)

Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs)

Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs)

Colorado's Gold Rush at Pikes Peak (Central City, Blackhawk and Others)

Dino Tracks Galore (La Junta, Morrison)

A Visit to La Veta's Ghosts (La Veta)

The Horror of Big Thompson and Other Floods (Statewide)

Where Did the Buffalo Roam? (Statewide)

Geographic Oddities (Statewide)

The Ludlow Massacre (Ludlow)

Hillbilly Artist of the West (Pritchett/Baca County)

Bent's Forts, Old and New (La Junta, Bent County)

Treasures Lost on the Plains-and Sometimes Found Again (Trinidad, Julesburg, Clifford/Hugo, Statewide)

Sex-Change Capital No More (Trinidad)

Fishers Peak State Park and Surrounds (Trinidad)

Kit Carson's Last Trip (Daniels Park)

The "Green Mesa" of the Ancient Ones: Mesa Verde (Montezuma County/Four Corners)

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781439672730

1439672733

OCLC:

1257076313