Sunday, December 25, 2011

The 1933 Flood

Resulting from the (second) failure of Castlewood Dam; and resulting in the employment of a few thousand destitute individuals, and the building of Kenwood Dam.


[Portsmouth Times, August 4, 1933.]

Monday, December 19, 2011

Spring Building has Begun

...right in the middle of the Creek! (That didn't work out so well.)


[RMN, February 8, 1862, p. 3.]

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Lenz



[Littleton Independent, July 26, 1901, p. 3.]

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Competing Summer White House

Did Walker steal the idea from somebody else?




[Colorado Transcript, July 20, 1911, p. 1.]

Monday, December 5, 2011

The Cycling West

Anybody got a copy?

[Colorado Transcript, June 19, 1898, p. 7.]

Sunday, December 4, 2011

"John Brisben Walker..." by Rosemary Fetter

Walker article by Rosemary Fetter, Colorado Gambler, May 19, 2010

Walker Buys Morrison


[Colorado Transcript, November 1, 1906, p. 5.]

Garden of the Titans -- probably refers to Red Rocks in this case.

Walker Locombobile Up Pikes Peak


[Daily Journal (Telluride), August 13, 1901, p. 1.]

"Locomobile" was actually a brand-name for early autos, but in this case probably refers to a Stanley Steamer.

Mt. Falcon Trail is an Old Auto Road



[Colorado Transcript, August 27, 1908, p. 1.]

Walker and W. J. Bryan, 1897


[Aspen Daily Times, June 13, 1897, p. 1.]

Pardon while I skip way ahead for a while. Trying to sort out John Brisbane Walker, the summer White House, the incline railroad, the Stanley Steamers, the roads and railways, Cosmopolitan, Riverside Park, various "castles"...

Digitized Papers From Ol' England

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15945306