The Grand Illumination

NOTE: PIONEER PLATES, a digital notebook of Colorado history, is back in the saddle after a long book-writing hiatus. Thanks for reading -- Robert


A celebration of events back East. (Not everybody wanted to celebrate surely.)



[RMN, March 1, 1865, p. 3.]

Calling all invalids, toddlers, and middle-aged ladies

Reading the News alone will drive you nuts. it's good to throw in a little Black Hawk Daily Mining Journal to remind oneself of varying points of view that prevailed at the time. On Wednesday Feb. 8 1865 the Journal has a great deal of fun with the alleged Indian threat and martial law, declared by Col. Moonlight to begin on that day. The clipping below refers to the fire of '63 and the flood of '64.





[DMJ, Feb 8, 1865, p.3]