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Mining Camps: Myth Vs
Mining Camps: Myth vs. Reality BY DUANE ALLAN SMITH Hidden in the vastness of the Rocky Mountains survive skeletal remains of what once were live, restless mining camps. People lived, worked, played, and died in some as early as 1859 and in others even later than the turn of the century. Mark Twain, in his delightful book Roughing It, has left a vigorous account of what life was like then. Although the topic of his examination, Virginia City, Nevada, was slightly west of the Rocky Mountains, the description he gave holds true for all camps going through "flush times." Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced. The sidewalks swarmed with people.... The streets themselves were just as crowded with quartz wagons, freight teams and other vehicles. The procession was endless .... Joy sat on every countenance, and there was a glad, almost fierce intensity in every eye, that told of the money-getting schemes that were seething in every brain and the high hope that held sway in every heart.1 Money was plentiful, Twain noted, and every individual considered himself potentially a mining nabob. Street fights, wide-open gambling palaces, saloons, theaters, and hurdy-gurdy houses enlivened the scene, and there was even "some talk of building a church." These were people busily engaged in that most popular of all American vocations, making a fortune, but they were also participating in the joy of spending it with relish. Life here had the quality of a frontier adventure alloyed with the gambling excitement of mining. -
Ren1en1brances of South Park by George W
19 Ren1en1brances of South Park By George W. Champion* South Park in Park County has an area of approximately 1,500 square miles, extending west from the foot of Kenosha Pass for about twenty-five miles and from the range north of Jefferson to about sixty miles south, and a view of the Park from Kenosha Pass in the summer when the meadows are green and especially in the fall of the year when the aspen trees are in color, is a most beautiful sight. I was born in South Park in 1884, at the Herman Litmer Ranch, about a mile north of Jefferson. Apparently Mother was staying with the Litmers at that time. Soon after I was born, perhaps a year or two, Mother and Father moved to Denver. My first schooling was in Denver. In 1890, we moved back to Jefferson. I was a little over six years old at that time and went to school at Jefferson, finishing the eighth grade there. My Father, George Champion, was engaged in the mercan tile business in Jefferson, having the general store and post office. The population of Jefferson was never large and prob ably never exceeded seventy-five to eighty permanent resi dents. But, the general store, saloon, blacksmith shop, and harness shop drew a constant flow of business from the sur rounding ranches whose industry was hay and cattle. At that time there were some nice horses raised, but very few sheep and hogs. Father was also agent for the South Park Hay Company, an association formed by the ranchers. -
AIMING STRAIGHT Dear EDITOR
AIMING STRAIGHT dear EDITOR, EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is your page-made available to anyone In your " Arrow Hook" paragraph (Summer '86)on alumna/alumnus, wisblng to comment on articles, the magazine, or any topic of Interest you do not mention pronunciation, and so many college graduates still to our readers. Letters must be signed with full name, address, and fumble there. chapter. We reserve tbe right to edit as needed to space requirements Some years ago I wrote-for a Convention Dally as I recall-a brief and content. msf verse a la "Thirty Days Hath September" to clarify thiS , and it might be worth repeating: Hooray for C.O. When one speaks of you and me, After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1984, I have married and Sisters, we are alumnae (nee) moved three times in the course of one year. Despite my various But with our husbands, you and I addresses, Pi Beta Phi Central Office and The Arrow have diligently Together are called alumni (ni). kept up with me, and for that I am extremely grateful. .. Sic biscuitus distintegrat." ° When I was in Tulsa, OK, I notified Central Office of my new address Many thanks for your good work. Marion Wilder Read and asked who I could get in touch with to join the Tulsa Alumnae Pi Phis. The answer came back within a few days, and I enjoyed eight North Dakota Alpha months with the Tulsa Pi Phis! Morristown, NJ °That's the way the cookie crumbles! I recently moved back to Virginia and, in the process, didn't receive the summer edition of The Arrow. -
CCI Foundation 2019 Summer Conference Womens History CCI
1 Women Commissioners Breakfast CCI, June 4, 2019, Keystone, CO, (Sallie Clark 719-651-5030 [email protected]) 15 min. presentation Introduction Slide 1 This morning we are going to talk about the contributions women have made to our history, culture and society. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, which was in March of each year is “Visionary Women” and each of us have stories to tell in our counties, so--- I’d like to share with you some historical “Visionary Women” and their accomplishments from our state, Colorado: Slide 2 (Carrie Holly, Clara Cressingham, Frances Klock) In 1894, three women were sworn in to serve in Colorado’s state legislature, Carrie Holly, Clara Cressingham and Frances Klock. While the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, women gained the right to vote in Colorado, passed by the people during a general election in 1893. Amazingly, these three women - Carrie, Clara and Frances, were elected to office before they could even vote for themselves! Carrie Holly passed a bill allowing mothers the same rights to children as fathers. She supported many Populist bills, including a “local options” bill to regulate the sale of liquor in club houses, a bill to abolish capital punishment, and she opposed a church taxation bill. Clara Cressingham was the youngest of these three newly elected legislators. She was the first woman to fill a leadership position in an American legislature and is credited with introducing the first law introduced by a woman in the United States. It set a government–provided bounty of $3 per ton on sugar beets raised in the state, and sold to a factory within its borders, thus boosting the budding Colorado sugar beet industry. -
Colorado State and Heading up This Portion of for Purchase and Asked
CSULifefor Faculty & Staff March 2014 Founders Day Celebrations Women INSIDE: making MAX on Track page 5 waves at Rockwell Who? page 6 CSU by Kyla Skye Allmon COMMUNITY A campus wide initiative is EVENTS beginning to ripple through the CSU community. Striving to Great Plates Fort Collins make CSU a premier place for March 1-14 women to work and learn, the More than 30 downtown restaurants will offer Ripple E ect was set in motion unique evening dining by President Tony Frank and specials for just $25 for a full two weeks to help VP of Operations Amy Parsons. support the Food Bank “All the credit goes to Tony for Larimer County. Last for thinking of it in the rst year’s event raised more than $35,000 to feed place,” Parsons says. Frank the hungry in our county. charged her with the mission to Full details available at nd out how to make CSU one downtownfortcollins.com Jean Sutherland and husband Tom, both longtime members of the CSU faculty, were awarded the Founders Day of the best places for women to Reception for Michael Medal on Feb. 11. Photo courtesy CSU Creative Services. More photos on page 11 Carolan work and learn. March 4, 4-6 p.m. Parsons says that there were 108 Johnson Hall no real issues on campus to The School of Global Environmental Lory Student Center Update bring about this idea. “Tony was Sustainability hosts watching a lot of the national CSU professor and dialogue on pay gaps and chair of the department Tracey Abel: The method behind the LSC maddness of sociology Michael wanted to make sure that CSU S.