The Great Buffalo Hunt, 6,500 BC -- The Dominguez-Escalante expedition, 1776 -- Zebulon Pike's espionage mission, 1807 -- The first settlement of Pueblo, 1822 -- The building of Bent's Fort, 1832 -- A trek along the Santa Fe Trail, 1839 -- A holiday with fur traders, 1839 -- Francis Parkman's vision, 1846 -- Kit Carson's long march, 1848 -- The Great Railroad Survey, 1853 -- Pikes Peak or bust, 1859 -- Early journalism in Colorado, 1859 -- The creation of the Denver Mint, 1860 -- The Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 -- The blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail, 1866 -- J.W. powell's Rocky Mountain expedition, 1868 -- The Battle of Beecher Island, 1868 -- The Great Diamond Hoax, 1872 -- A ramble in the Rockies, 1873 -- The cannibalism of Alfred Packer, 1874 -- Clay Allison's trouble at Las Animas, 1876 -- The birth of Leadville, Silver Capital, 1877 -- Uncle Dick Wootton's toll road, 1878 -- The Ute Affair, 1879 -- The inheritance of Ouray, 1880 -- The Wetherill brothers and Mesa Verde, 1887 -- The legacy of Jesse James, 1892 -- Barney Ford's black activism, 1902 -- Mother Jones's union stand, 1913 -- The death of Buffalo Bill, 1917 -- The legend of Baby Doe, 1935 -- W.H. Jackson's quest for the Cross, 1942 -- The search for Bridey Murphy, 1952 -- Red Ryder and Little Beaver, 1960 -- The history of two historians, 1984/1985 -- The near destruction of Granby, 2004 -- The blizzard, 2006 -- Colorado facts and trivia. |