On General Principles

[RMN, April 7, 1865, p. 2.]

Richmond at Sand Creek: Shooting female prisoners and scalping them.

Why Don't You Marry It Then

[RMN, March 31, 1865.]

This jab at Susan B. Anthony is a weird little twist in the Rocky's irrepressible racism. If she likes negroes so much, maybe she should marry one. Wouldn't that be totally wacky? Racist Mountain News already went off on "miscegenation" in another issue or two.

Another reminder that these Colorado Unionists, represented by Byers, are also racists, overwhelmingly, who would prefer their Union to keep the slavery if possible.

On Dit: Hunt

I like to monitor all the Hunt news, you may have noticed. As did Byers. Makes you wonder if A.C. picked up the paper that morning and spewed his coffee.

Also another bit on oil. The papers were obsessed with oil/petroleum in those days. What it's being used for, how rich people are getting off of it. And not a car in sight.



[RMN, March 29, 1865.]

Bowen and the Box

Notorious alcoholic Leavitt Bowen dead in Denver, then eulogized by Chivington. Lots of people were. Officers dropping like flies. And another story that reminds us how things have changed.



[RMN, March 24, 1865.]

Sea Change

[RMN, March 23, 1865, p. 2.]