History of Colorado; Volume I, Part 103

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 954


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Census of 1870, Denver 4,800; 1872, 15,000, 350 Census statistics 1890-1914, 550 Central City, 150


Central City, early views of, 151


Central City newspaper, 796


Cereals and fruit crops, 480 Chadsey, Charles E., 879


Chaffee, Jerome B., 332, 421, 422


Chaffee, S. B., 518 Chaffee and Teller go to senate, 429 Chaffee county, 11


Chaffee County Democrat, 797 Chaffee county mining history, 299 Chaffee county newspapers, 797.


Chaffee County Republican, 797 Chaffee Light Artillery, 722 Chalk Creek Hot Springs, 11


Chamber of Commerce endorses beet sugar movement, 539


Chamberlin, F. K., 207


Chambers, Clark, 262, 715


Chambers, Katherine Lee, 890


Chambers, Samuel, 125


Changing election laws, 447


Chant, Mrs. L. O., 694 Chapman, Arthur, 889 Chapman, Mrs. Carrie Lane, 693


Character of the trapper, the, 108 Charities and correction, board of, 209


Charter members, First Congregational church of Denver, 654


Chase, Brigadier-General, 859


Cheese made in Larimer county, 547


Cheesman, Walter S., 338, 361, 373, 396


Cheever, D. A., 149


Cherry Creek Pioneer, 782 Chestnut street, Leadville, 1880, 269


Cheyenne & Northern Railroad, 368 Cheyenne Menace, the, 334


Cheyenne Springs, 21


Chicago & Northwestern road, 336 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, 369, 370


Chicago-Colorado Colony, 160


Chicago, or German Colony, 158 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, 377


Chief events of Cripple Creek camp, 279-281 Chief Ouray, 295


"Chieftain" of Pueblo, the, 792


Chilcott, G. M., 371, 420, 429, 821 Chilcott, G. W., 428 Children, State Home for Dependent, 830 "Chinaman," 103


Chiropractic legislation, 772


Chivington, Colonel J. M., 90, 95, 420, 509, 663, 703, 712, 714


Chouteau and De Munn, 112


Chouteau, Auguste Pierre, 112 Chouteau, Pratte & Company, 128 Chouteau's Landing, 58


Christian church, the, 641 Christian churches, with memberships, 642


Christian Science in Colorado, 652 Christman, Fred, 518


Christopher "Kit" Carson, 109 Chrysolite mine, unrest at, 839 Church families in state, 648


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INDEX


Church of St. John's in the Wilderness, 642 Church of the Immaculate Conception, Den- ver, 679


Churches, denominations of, 633


Churches, history of, 632


Churchill, John A., 134


Cibola, City of, 23


Cimarron Crossing, 125


Cimarron Pass, 125


Citizens' Alliance, 855


Citizens' Gnard, 839


Citizens' Protective League, 855


Civil Service Commission, 209


Clark, Austin M., 393


Clark, Frederick T., 882, 886


Clark, General George Rogers, 39


Clark, George T., & Company, 394


Clark, Gruber & Company, 393


Clark, James M., 620, 878


Clark, John A., 497


Clark, Milton E., 393


Clark, Captain William, 39, 113


Classes at State Home for Children, 831 Clay deposits, 557


Clayton College, 628


Clayton, George W., 628


Clayton, W. L., 376


Clayton, W. M., 336


Clear Creek production, 238


Clements, Ellis M, 887


Cleveland, President, acts, 513


Cliff Canon, 69


Cliff Dweller ruins, view of, 71


Cliff Dwellers, the, 65, 478


Cliff Palace, 66, 69 -


Climate and topography, 1


Cline, M. W., 157, 295


Closing Westminster University, 673


"Cloud City," 270 Clouser, Charles, 272 Coal, activity in mining, in 1887, 451


Coal discovered in southern Colorado in 1860, 449


Coal fields at Ruby open, 360


Coal fields, Colorado, 466 Coal in the Dakota formation, 475


Coal in the United States, 149


Coal mined in northern Colorado in. 1864, 449


Coal mined in Weld county in 1872, 449 Coal mines by counties, 456-462


Coal mines, 1888, location and kind, 452 Coal mines, inspection of, 212


Coal mines, men employed in, 456-462


Coal mines, table of, 1916, 456-462 Coal operatives, chief, in 1883, 451


Coal product of state by years, 462


Coal production in leading counties, 464


Coal statistics, miscellaneous, 464 Coal $10.00 to $15.00, 343


Cobb, E. W., 396 Cobb, Frank M., 134 Cobb, Lieutenant, 714 D. kerell, Professor, 881 Denvran, Mrs. A. M., 695


Denv Earl B., 790 DenveWilliam, 509


Denver' road, the, 377


Denver ad up Pike's Peak, 575 Denver idustry, the, 476


Denver kens and plants, 476


Coke statistics, 1880-1917, 476 Cole, Allyn, 376 Coleman, James T., 789 Colfax, 159


Collins, Arthur L., 849, 850


Collins, Col. W. O., 166


Collyer, Robert, 160


Colonization in Colorado, 158


Colorado & New Mexico Railway, 370


Colorado & Southern Railway Company, 369


Colorado, as health resort, 776


Colorado Auto Club, 579


Colorado banks in 1919, 408-416


Colorado Battery, 726


Colorado carnotite enriches world, 293


Colorado Central & Pacific Railroad, 332


Colorado Central & Pacific starts building, 342


Colorado Chieftain, 792


Colorado City, 149


Colorado City strike of reduction mill work- ers, in 1903, 850 Colorado coal fields, 466


Colorado coal production, 449


Colorado College, 623


Colorado declared a state, 427


Colorado factory output, 1917, 554


Colorado Fair Rates Association, 556


"Colorado, " Fossett's, 510


Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, 869, 870, 874, 875


Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, 1916-17, 552 Colorado Good Roads Association, 579


Colorado Industrial Workshop for the Blind, 834 Colorado labor wars, 837


Colorado land, 485


Colorado literature, 877


Colorado Manufacturers' Association, 556


Colorado Midland Railway, 369, 371


Colorado mining by sections, 262 Colorado National Bank, 400


Colorado Power Company, 318


Colorado power plants, 317


Colorado press, the, 781


Colorado Railroad, the, 369


Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, 823


Colorado School of Agriculture, 617 Colorado School of Mines, 612


Colorado Seminary, 611


Colorado Smelting Company, 312


Colorado Soldiers' & Sailors' Home, 828


Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway, 369 Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph, 795


Colorado Springs Gazette, 795


Colorado Springs Land Company, 824


Colorado Springs Light, Heat & Power Com- pany, 322; directors, 322; officers, 322


Colorado Springs newspapers, 794 Colorado State Home, 830


Colorado State Home and School for Men- tal Defectives, 834


Colorado State Hospital, 821


Colorado State Industrial School for Boys, 831


Colorado State Industrial School for Girls, 832


Colorado State Normal School opens, 621 Colorado State Penitentiary, 816 Colorado State Reformatory, 829


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INDEX


Colorado State Teachers' College, 620 Colorado Sugar Manufacturing Company, 539 Colorado Sun, the, 790


Colorado Traveling Library, 223 Colorado, what it means, 891


Colorado Woman's College, 627


Colorado Woman's College Auxiliary Asso- ciation, 628


Colorado's first delegate to congress, 394


Colorado's four mining epochs, 248


Colorado's gold output, 1892-1900, 278


Colorado's greatest struggle, 555


Colorado's metal output, 302-309


Colorado's mountain parks, 563


Colorado's national forests, 563


Colorado's political campaigns, 417


Colorado's rank as coal producer, 454


Colorado's wool clip, 531


Colorow, Chief, 78


Colton, Gustavus A., 498


Columbus, Christopher, 895


Coming of the Hereford, the, 524


Commanders in charge of Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 829


Commissioners of Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 828


Commissioners, State Board Stock Inspection, 208


Community effort, 493 Como field, 471


Condition of cattle industry in 1866, 508


Conditions at Cripple Creek mines in 1894, 841


Conditions for eligibility, Clayton College, 629 Conditions leading to miners' strikes, 839


"Conejo," meaning of, 892


Conejos, 893 Cones, Elliott, 50, 879


Confederate designs on Colorado, 708 Confederate flag raising, 702


Conferences on Cripple Creek strike (1894), 841


Congregational church, the, 653


Congregational churches, dates organized and erected, 657-660


Congregational conference of Colorado, 660


Congregational school, trustees of, 624


Congress creates Colorado Territory, 172 Congress takes up massacre, 94


Congressional representatives, 194 Conine, Mrs. M. A. B., 697 Consonants, Spanish pronunciation of, 891 Conspiracy cases of, to murder, dismissed (Cripple Creek, 1904), 867 Constitution, congress provides for, 176 Constitution, how amended, 201


Constitution of Auraria Town Company, 138


Constitutional conventions, 180, 183 Construction proves expensive, 363 Continental Trust Company, 376 Converse, Jesse, 377 Convict labor, 817-820 Cook, C. A., & Company, 395


Cook, Maj .- Gen. David J., 839, 878


Cook, G. W., 417 Cook, Captan S. H., 703, 704, 715 Coon, John, 286 Cooper, C. A., 879 Cooper, Isaac, 156 Co-operative fencing plans, 517


Co-operative Miners' Union, 837


Corn crop, 1917, 10,600,000 bushels, 488 Corn 121% cents, 165


Coronado mine, troubles at, 846


Coronado's expedition, 23


Corporation effort, 494 Correct Spanish pronunciation, 891


Correctional institutions, 816


Corriere di Trinidad, 801


Cost of early railroad construction, 382.


Costigan, E. P., 446


Costilla, pronunciation and meaning of, 893


Cottages at Girls' School, 832


Cottages at Industrial School, 831


Cottages at State Hospital, 821


Council at Denver, 92


Counties, .8


Counties created, new, 198


Counties, creating the first, 173


Counties, distribution of minerals by, 304-309


County ageuts, 488


County names, 892


Courthouse at Cripple Creek defended by sharpshooters and machine gun, 860


Court of appeals, 736


Courts, appellate, 733


Courts, organization of, 732


Courts, territorial, 734


Courts, United States, for Colorado, 733


Cowboys and Stockman Taylor die in storm, 519 Coy, Dr. N. B., 435


Coyle, Rev. J. P., 656


Coyle, Robert F., 884


Cozzens, Ed, 152


Crabbe, John Grant, 622


Cragin, Edward F., 879


Craig, John H., 519


Craig, Katherine Lee, 882


Craig, Captain William, 420, 520


Crawford, George A., 154


Creameries, mills, elevators, 486


Creating first counties, 173


Creating new counties, 198


Creede, N. C., 292


Creede newspapers, 802


Creighton, Edward, 383 Cressingham, Mrs. Clara, 695, 697 Cripple Creek a world-wonder, 275


Cripple Creek camp, chief events of, 279-281


Cripple Creek mines (views), 277, 283


Cripple Creek newspapers, 812


Cripple Creek's gold production, 281


Cripple Creek strike of 1894, 838, 840


Cripple Creek strike of 1903-04, 851, 856


Cripple Creek sympathetic strike (1903), 851


Cripple Creek Times, 812


Crook Brothers, 271 Crook smelter, the, 578


Cross, Ethan A., 882


Cross, Rev. Roselle T., 884


Crossley, W. F., 320


Crozat, Francisco, 36


Crystal Park, 9 Culbertson, T. H., 156


Cumenge, E., 293 42


Cuno, Charles W., 890


Cummings, Alexander, 421


Curly Bear (portrait), 105


Curry, J. O., 376 Curtice, W. J., 262


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INDEX


Curtice, W., 586 Curtis, Emma G., 887 Curtis, L. E., 317 Curtis, Lieut .- Col. S. S., 719, 720 Curtis, Gen. S. R., 89 Cushman, Samuel, 653 Custer county, 10 Custer county press, 814 Custer county's mining history, 282 Customs of legislature, 176


Da Costa, Charles M., 361


Dailey, John L., 781 Daily and Weekly Mountaineer, 789 Daily Commonwealth, 789 Daily Rocky Mountain Herald, 789 Dale, Catesby, 262 Dalzell, T. J., 255 Dana, John Cotton, 880


Danforth, A. H., 286


Daniels, Mrs. W. C., 723


Darley, George M., 879


Dates of early and late frosts, 6


Dates of organization of Colorado banks, 408- 416


Davidson, Eleanor, 882 Davidson, William, 147, 418 Davis, Carlyle Channing, 879 Davis, C. E., 377


Davis, Charles F., 882


Dawson, C. C., 445


Dawson, Lewis, 114


Dawson, Thomas Fulton, 878, 879


Day, C. M., 376


Day, David F., 805


Deaf Mute Index, the, 825 Deaf, State School for the, 823 Deer, elk, hears, etc., 120


Dearborn, Gen. Henry, 50


Defeat of statehood, 420


De France, Judge M., 689


Degrees by years, U. of C., 609 Delegates to constitutional convention, 183 Delegates to silver conventions, 436 Delegates to various conventions, 440 Delisle's map, 76


Del Norte papers, 807 Delta, 154


Delta county, 16


Delta county press, 813


Democratic National Convention, 1908, 445 De Mott, Dr. McK., 888 De Munn, Jules, 112


Denison, Elsa, 885 Denman, A. A., 404


Dentists, Denver, 1866, 767 Denver & Intermountain Ry. Co., 377


Denver & New Orleans Ry. Co., 366 Denver & Northwestern, the, 372


D. & R. G. crew too late, 359


D. & R. G. earnings, expenses, mileage, 359 D. & R. G. goes into receiver's hands, 364 D. & R. G. mileage, 1911, 1918, 363 D. & R. G. restored, 256 Denver & Rio Grande, the, 369


Denver & Salt Lake R. R., directors, 375 Denver & South Park R. R., the, 365 Denver becomes capital, 195 Denver City Company, board of directors, 142 Denver City ditch, 493


Denver City Town Company, 140


Denver Clearing House, 404 Denver Daily Gazette, 789 Denver, early views, 211 Denver editors, 788 Denver Express, 792 Denver Fat Stock and Feeder Show, 525 Denver, Gen. James W., 141, 236


Denver Junction Gazette, 809 Denver Ladies' College Society, 627


Denver, Lakewood & Golden Ry. Co., 377


Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Ry. Co., 376


Denver, Leadville & Gunnison R. R., 368


Denver, Marshall & Boulder R. R., 368


Denver National Bank, 401


Denver, Northwestern & Pacific, the, 372 Denver Pacific Ry. and Telegraph Co., 336 Denver Pacific, officers and directors, 340 Denver Paper Mills, 435


Denver Post, 792


Denver Railway Securities Co., 375


Denver Republican, 789, 791


Denver's mountain parks, 569


Denver Steel Co., 435


Denver, Texas & Ft. Worth R. R., 368 Denver Times, 789 Denver Tribune, 791


Denver Union Depot & Ry. Co., 378


Denver, Utah & Pacific R. R., 370


Denver, Western & Pacific R. R., 368


Denver Woman's Club, 833


Department of Medicine, 606


Departments of U. of Denver, 612


Dependent and neglected children, 830


Deportations of miners, 865, 873 Deposits of all Colorado banks, 416


De Soto, 25 Desperadoes of 1860, 787


De Vaca's explorations, 22 Developing the highways, 573


Development of irrigation, 491


Dewey, Admiral George, 518


Dewey, Henry, 518


Dickson, T. C., 134 Difficulties of pack-saddling, 128


Dill, Robert Gordon, 878


Dillon, Sidney, 333 Directors and officers, Denver Pacific, 340


Directors, Colorado Power Co., 320


Directors, Denver & South Park R. R., 366


Directors of D. & R. G., 1918, 363


Directors of Western Light & Power Co., 321


Discovery of the field pea, 530 Discovery of grazing values, 508 Discovery of ruins, 66


Distinguished visitors, 165 Distribution of minerals in Colorado, 304, 309


Disturbances at Telluride, 848


Ditches constructed in 1860, 491


Dixon, Hon. N. Walter, 853


Doctors, List of, in World's war, 777, 778, 779, 780 Doctors, Pioneer, 766


Dodd, Lieutenant-Colonel, 719, 720


Dodd, Capt. T. H., 718 Dodge, Clarence P., 794


Dodge, D. C., 154, 336, 358


Dodge, F. S., 103


Dodge, Gen. G. M., 96, 333


Dodge, Paul H., 888 Dodge's expedition, 78 Doll, Frank, 520


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Dolores county, 12


Dolores, meaning of, 893 Dominguez, Francisco, 228 Doolittle, T. B., 388 Dotson, P. K., 371 Dougherty, H., 52


Dougherty, Major, 78


Douglas, Chief, 77


Douglas county newspapers, 799 Douglas County Record-Journal, 799


Downey, Charles J., 889


Downing, Captain, 704, 714


Downing, Maj. Jacob, 99


Dows, David, 377


Doyle, James, 279


Doyle, Joseph B., 520


Drake, Lieut. E. P., 510


Dresser, Frank, 106


Dresser, Henry, 106


Ellis, D. P., 286


Dry farming of chief interest, 485


Dudley, J. H., 136


Ellsworth, Col. L. C., 358


Elmer, Capt. E. P., 719


Duncan, Robert, 285


Dunraven, Lord, 512


El Pueblo, or Fort Pueblo, 121


Emmerson, James, 418


Empire City, 150


England declares war on Spain, 35


Engler, Adolph, 361


Engineering building, University, 607


Enrollment at Girls' Industrial School, 833


Enrollment in Agricultural College, 620


Enrollment in State School for Deaf and Blind, 827 Enunciation, Spanish, 891


Enzensperger, Frank, 156


Erb, Newman, 375


Erecting the State House, 196


Erie Independent, 811


Ernest, F. P., 521


Escalante, Francisco, 228


Escalante's exploration, 28


Eskridge, E. W., 106


Estevanico (Stephen), 22


Evans, Governor John, 88, 156, 334, 372, 420, 688, 704 717


Evans Courier, 811


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Evans Courier-Messenger, 811


Evans papers, 811


Evans, William G., 373


Evening and Weekly Picketwire, 801


Evening Telegraph, Colorado Springs, 795


Early settlement in Colorado, 134


Early settlers in Roaring Fork valley, 523


Early stock-raising methods, 512


Early Trinidad newspapers, 801


Early views in Denver, 379


Easter, John, 236


Faculty, University of Colorado, 609


Failure of First State Constitution, 170


Failure of statehood bills by veto, 421


Failure of state management, 496


Fairley, D. B., 795


Fairplay, 264


Fairplay Flume, 799


Ebbert, William B., 887


Eckles, Jack, 295


Eckles, John, 157


Eclipse, the Leadville, 796


Eddy, H. H., 435 Edgerton, James A, 889


Editors and writers, 790


Editors of Rocky Mountain News, 788 Education in Colorado, 585-603


Edwards, A. J., 418 Edwards, R. S., 282


Effect (of massacre) on Indians, 95 "Eight-Hour" strikes, 852 Eilers, Anton, 314


Elbert, Acting Governor, 92


Elbert, Gov. Samuel, 421, 428, 719, 877


Eldridge, E. F., 887


Election of 1894, 439


Elevators, flour mills, etc., 486


Elk, bears, deer, etc., 120


Elkins, Senator, 422


Ellett, J. A., 435


Elliott, David, 795


Elliott murder, the, 103


Ellison, R. S., 320


Durango, 157


Durango papers, 805


Durango Herald Printing Co., 805 Durant, Thomas C., 333 Durbin, C. K., 373


Du Tisne, 31


Dwelling, the, 68


Dwyer, R. H., 376


Dyer, John L., 633, 879


Dynamite bombs, 846 Dynamiters in Idaho Springs strike, 855


Eagle county, 18 Eagle county 's mining history, 284


Earliest canals 492


Early banking in Denver, 392


Early big herds, 529


Early Catholic priests, 678


Early Colorado printers, 731


Early data of Boulder county mining, 274 Early Denver buildings, 331, 784 Early Metholist preachers, 663, 665


Early newspaper competitors, 783 Early newspapers, 781


Early newspaper subscription rates, 788 Early news service, 786


Early school history of counties, 588 Early school laws, 585


Exchange Bank, the, 395


Expenditure, maintenance and earnings of penitentiary, 816 "Extra, " an early, 786


Eyster, Judge C. S., 735


Eastern Colorado, 484


Eastwood, Alice, 882


Eaton, George, 106 Eaton Herald, 811 Earnings of Moffat Road, 375 Earnings of penitentiary, 816 Eayre, Lt. G. S., 719


Fallon, John, 300 Famous editors, 788


Fare from Kansas City to Santa Fé $250.00, 328 Fargo, James C., 329 Fargo, William G., 329 Farnham, Professor, on water rights, 502


Duncan J., 52, 285


El Paso City, 146


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INDEX


Farrar, Fred, 446 Father Padilla's fate, 24 Fathom system, 848 Faulkner, Mrs. A. W. 695 Federal effort under reclamation act, 496 Fellows, Doctor, 78 Felt, Z. C., 376 Felter, Lottie S., 888 Fenneman, N. M., 286 Fernandez, Don Bartholomew, 47 Ferrell, J. M., 147 Ferril, William C., 879 Fewkes, J. Walter, 72 Ficklin, B. F., 330 Field, Engene, 791, 888 Field, E. B., 389


'Fifty-eighters to Pike's Peak region, 272 Fight for Raton Pass, the, 358 Figures on acreage and production, 486 Fillmore, J. S., 702


Finances of the state, 200 Finding transcontinental railway route, 326 Finlay, George I., 883


Firebrick, pottery, etc., 547


First actual settlers, 478


First agriculturists, 478


First artesian wells, 529


First ascent of Pike's Peak, 54


First banking outside Denver, 404


First board of trustees, State Normal, 622 First business at Cherry Creek, 143


First buyers of gold dust from miners, 393 First cabin in Oro, 269


First capitol of Colorado, 175


First cell house, the, 816


First Church of Christ, organizers of, 641


First coach leaves Leavenworth, 329


First Colorado Conference (Methodist), ap- pointments of, 666


First Colorado, History of, 722-725


First Colorado list of casualties, 725


First Colorado newspaper, the, 781 First Colorado Regiment, 717


First daily newspaper, 786


First educational charter, 611


First efforts to harness state water power, 317


First election poll by counties, 182


First gold discoveries, 229 First governor arrives, 420 First incorporators of stock yards, 526 First iron foundry, 548


First irrigation, 491


First issue of "The News," 783 First Jewish congregation, 681 First legislation, 499 First meeting with the Spanish, 46


First miners' union organized, 837 First Mining Review, 240


First National Bank of Denver, 394, 399 First officers of Colorado National Bank, 400 First paper in territory, 782 First pony express leaves St. Joe, 330


First post on Sonth Platte, 122


First presidential electors, 431 First printing press, 781 First Regiment Colorado Infantry, organiza- tion of, 722 First sawmill in Larimer county, 548 First sermon in Colorado, 632 First smelter company organized, 312


First state election, 427


First stockholders, First National Bank, 400 First territorial officers, 419


First traders, the, 109


First Unitarian Society, officers of, 674 First ( Unitarian) Sunday school, 675


First vestry of St. John's, 642


First view of the mountains, 43


Fisher, M. C., 702


Fisher, Rev. W. G., 632, 663


Fisk, A. C., 159 Fitch, Michael H., 878, 884


Fitzgerald, E., 417 Fitzpatrick, Sublette & Bridger, 124


Five million cattle from Texas, 508 Five periods of canal building, 492 Flarheiler, Joe, 284


Fletcher, Charles, 150


Floods in Humboldt Valley, 363


Florence & Cripple Creek District Railway Co., 369


Florence Daily Citizen, 795


Florence field oil output, 286, 287


Florence newspapers, 795


Flour mills, creameries, etc., 486


Flower, Roswell P., 377


Fluorspar, 558 Ford, Capt. J. H., 718


Foreign investments, 512


Forsyth, Col. George A., 99


Forsyth's battle, 99


Fort Craig, 706, 707, 711, 717


Fort Collins Review, 800


Fort Collins publications, 800


Fort Collins, view of, in 1865, 167


Fort Crockett (or Davy Crockett), 124


Fort Fillmore, 706


Fort Garland, 701 Fort John, 124


Fort Lancaster, 122


Fort Laramie, 123


Fort Logan, 730


"Fort Lupton,"' 122


Fort Lupton Cyclone, 811


Fort Lupton Press, 811


Fort Lyon, 702


Fort Morgan Times, 803


Fort St. Vrain, 58, 123


Fort Uintah, 124 Fort Union, 712


Fort Wise, 126, 701, 712


Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co., 368 Fosdick, H. M., 149


Fossett, Frank, 510, 880


Fossett's "Colorado," 260


Foster, Edward D., 485


Foster, Robert, 52 Founding of a great industry, the, 519 Fountain City, 152


Fountain City Town Company, 146


$400,000,000 in metallic wealth, 267


Four million dollars in potatoes, 482 Fouts, William, 242


Fowler, Jacob, 114


Fowler publications, 805


Fowler's diary, 114, 116


Fox, Dr. J. M., 329 Fraeb, Henry, 124


France, Capt. Matt, 165


France. Lewis B., 880, 887 Franklin, L. B., 378


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Fraser, Walter B., 223 Frear, D. W., 488 Fredericks, Leonard, 282 Freeman, W. R., 375 Free Methodists, 669


Freight rates and manufacturers, 355 Frémont, John C., 56, 326, 894


Fremont county, 8


Fremont county, its oils and minerals, 285


Fremont County Leader, 795 Frémont's last expedition, 64 Frémont's second expedition, 58 Frémont's third and fourth expeditions, 60 French, Adnah, 134 French menace, the, 26 French, the, 30


French Revolution, 35


Friedel, C., 293 Friedman, William S., 885


Frink, Almira L. C., 889 From range days to the thoroughbred era, 506 Frost, W. E., 520 Frosts, 5


Fruit Growing, 488 Fruit Growing in its infancy, 489 Fuller's earth, 558 Fynn, Artlmr J., 882


Gage, T. A., 518 Gaines, Maj. Gen. Edmund P., 83


Gale, Judge W. H., 735


Gallagher, Charles, 270


Gallagher, Patrick, 270


Gantt, Captain, 78


Gantz, Jacob, 172 Garbert, W. H., reminiscences by, 754 Garden of the Gods, gateway to, 15


Garfield county, 14


Garfield county press, 813


Garfield, James A., 432


Garrison, A. F., 147


Gaylord, Hal, 790


Gaylord, Lewis W., 795


Gazette, Colorado Springs, 795 Gelder, William, 156


Gem stones, 558 Gems and precious stones mined, 287 "Gentleman Charley," 740 George, Professor Russell D., 881 "George Washington," 103 Georgetown Courier, 799 German (Chicago) Colony, 158 German Lutherans, 651 Geronimo (portrait), 101 Gerry, Elbridge, 146 Gibbs, Agnes K., 888 Gibson, F. B., 373 Gibson, Thomas, 781, 789 Gillespie, H. B., 521


Gilpin, Lieut .- Col. and Gov. William, 84, 172, 419, 586, 701, 703, 704, 877


Gilpin county and John H. Gregory, 245 Gilpin county newspapers, 796 Gilpin Observer, the, 796 Gilpin Railroad, the, 369


Gilpin Tramway Company, 369


Girardot, Marion R., 887 Girls, State Industrial School for, 832 Glascoe, Charles S., 207 Glenn-Fowler expedition, the, 114


Glenn, Hugh, 114 Glenwood Post, 813 Glenwood Springs, 156 Glenwood Springs papers, 813 Globe smelter, disturbances at, 853 Godoy, Manuel, 35 Godfrey, Holon, 96 Gold and silver production, 260


Gold camp railroads, 378 Gold production, Cripple Creek's, 281


Golden, Thomas L., 150, 236


Golden, T. S., 418


Golden City, 147 Golden Reformatory School, 832


Golden Transcript, 785, 797


Goldie, Rev. Howard, 888


Goldstein, Carl, 106


Goode, Rev. W. H., 661


Goodnight, Cresswell & Company, 520


Goodwin, Alma, 518


Goodwin, B., 146 Gordon, James, 172


Gordon, Tom, 507


Gorsline, Judge W. R., 735, 742


Gondy, F. C., 443, 445


Gould, Edwin, 363


Gould, George J., 362


Gould, George, 363


Gonld, Jay, 358


Gould, Kingdon, 363


Government, beginnings and development, 168


Government regulation of grazing, 514


. Government aspects, 34


Governor De Allande, 112


Governor Gilpin, 702


Governor Elbert, 96


Governor Maynez, 112


Governor Osborn, 371


Governor Pitkin, 103


Governors agitate for Normal School, 620


Governors of Colorado (state), 192 "Graball" or Tarryall, 264


Grable, F. C., 878


Graduates of School of Mines, 614


Graham, H. J., 169, 417


Gramm, Otto, 377


Grand county, 17 Grand county mining history, 288


Grand Junction, 154


Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 801


Grand Junction Democrat, 801


Grand Junction Star, 801


"Grand Peak," the, 43


Grand River field, 473


Grand Valley News, 813


Granger, Rev. Francis, 644


Granger, Ralph, 292


Granites, 559 Grant, James B., 314, 843




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