[Portsmouth Times, August 4, 1933.]
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.]
[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.]
[RMN, February 8, 1862, p. 3.]
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A Competing Summer White House
Did Walker steal the idea from somebody else?
[Colorado Transcript, July 20, 1911, p. 1.]
[Colorado Transcript, July 20, 1911, p. 1.]
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
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.
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"...
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