The June 19, 1865 Rocky is a real good one. It continues with the Browne fued -- the AG denies he was drunk while crying out in ecstasy "who's governor NOW!!" upon Evans' removal -- has another great Squires tidbit and this note on the movements of Chivington, maybe headed East for some sort of testimony, not sure. Sure does seem like a fat target crossing the plains in a civilian stage coach.
This Arnett fellow seems to have a much more developed sense of how to deal with the grasshoppers. Who does he think he is? Some kind of grasshopper guru?
From Massacre to Madness on the Colorado Front Range
This digital notebook is part of an ill-fated attempt by its creator to sort out snippets of information and mangled thoughts about the tragic, shameful, fascinating and funny history of Colorado in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Robert Hurst is a native Coloradan, a descendant of multiple Front Range pioneers, and the author of six or seven books about bicycling, depending on who's counting. He does not have pioneer plates.