THE HISTORY OF LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: VOL II Editors Arlene (Briggs) Ahlbrandt, Kathryn “Kate” Stieben Compiled by The Larimer County Heritage Writers, Fort Collins, CO 80524 (Copyright Curtis Media Corporation, Dallas: 1987) Larimer, General William 1809-1875 .........................................front matter Mary Corey .................................................................................front matter Charlene Tresner .........................................................................front matter Zethyl (Crosby) Gates .................................................................front matter Introduction .................................................................................front matter DAR publishes Watrous’ History ...............................................front matter Indians and Early History First Americans and Descendants in Larimer County ...........................2 Indian Life in Larimer County ...............................................................2 Chief Friday ...........................................................................................4 Arapaho Chief and a Frontier Family ....................................................5 Natural Fort (between Fort Collins and Cheyenne) ...............................5 Wagon Train Journey Hazardous (Charles Pennock) ............................7 Arapaho Heritage ...................................................................................7 Where the Indians Met (Arapaho Indian Council Tree) ........................8 Indian Women (Anpaha, McGaa) ..........................................................8 Pap, Louis ..............................................................................................9 Legend of Massacre and Lost Gold Cache (LaBorgean ......................10 Wooten, Richens Lacy (Uncle Dick) ...................................................10 Indian Springs Coal Mine ....................................................................11 An Indian Prayer ..................................................................................11 The Friendship Tree (Janis, Bold Wolf) ..............................................11 Ann Strange Owl Raben ......................................................................12 Trappers and Indians Meet (burying of the powder) ...........................12 Princess Red Feather ............................................................................13 Larimer County’s Buried Historical Treasures (Michael Charney) ....13 Indian Battle at Mud Springs ...............................................................13 Indian Recollections (Frank Chaffee) ..................................................14 Indians at the Door (1860s) (Elsa K. Jones) ........................................14 Indian Ceremonies (Plains Tribes).......................................................14 Buffalo Jumps ......................................................................................15 Ute Susan .............................................................................................15 Ute Susan’s Rescue ..............................................................................16 The Cherokee Trail ..............................................................................16 Indian Lore (Fossil Creek teepee ground) ...........................................17 Indian Women and Children (clothing, camp life) ..............................17 “Bucky” Large .....................................................................................17 Big Ribs (aka Big Rib, Oglala Sioux) ..................................................18 Lathrop Hills ........................................................................................19 Indian Sculpture (Peter Toth)...............................................................20 1 Charles Eagle Plume ............................................................................20 Colorful Colorado (poem, A.S. Rietveld) ............................................21 Geology, Landmarks and Water Geology, Rocky Mountain National Park ............................................24 Nymph Lake at RMNP ........................................................................24 Long’s Peak .........................................................................................25 Horsetooth Mountain ...........................................................................26 The Aggie A .........................................................................................27 Century Old Mystery (Steamboat Rock) .............................................28 Bellvue Fold .........................................................................................30 Profile Rock .........................................................................................31 Haystack Boulder / Haystack Rock .....................................................32 Whale Rock ..........................................................................................33 State of the Bighorn Sheep ..................................................................35 Trading Expedition in Laramie River ..................................................36 [History of] Water in Larimer County .................................................36 Horsetooth Reservoir ...........................................................................41 Low Water in Horsetooth Reservoir (post-flood, 1976) ......................42 Carter Lake Reservoir ..........................................................................42 Devil’s Backbone .................................................................................44 Poudre Canyon Tunnel (Baldwin) .......................................................45 Chronology of Larimer County Settlement and Homestead Era: 1860s ................................................49 Homesteads ..........................................................................................49 Christmas 1866 ....................................................................................49 Colorado Statehood and Railroad Era: 1870s ......................................50 Railroad Era .........................................................................................53 First Newspaper in Fort Collins – Watrous .........................................55 Irrigation and Immigration: 1880s .......................................................56 Spring Canyon .....................................................................................56 Early Cigars, Handmade ......................................................................57 Immigrants and “Roots” .....................................................................57 Larimer County’s Jewish Roots ...........................................................57 “A Cowboy in 1880” (John Hiram Hobbs Payson) .............................58 Larimer County Courthouse ................................................................59 A Murder and Lynching in 1888 (Eva Howe) .....................................60 Agriculture Era: 1890s .........................................................................60 Diary of Travels: E. Swinscoe .............................................................61 Hoffman Mill .......................................................................................61 Auntie Stone’s Death ...........................................................................62 1896 Carriage Business........................................................................62 Windmills: Old Landmarks..................................................................62 Larimer County’s First Phonograph ....................................................63 Sky Line Ditch .....................................................................................63 2 Turn of Century: 1900s ........................................................................64 Sugar Beet Industry Early 1900s .........................................................65 Flood: 1904 ..........................................................................................66 Gas Manufacture ..................................................................................68 Fort Collins Auto Show (1907)............................................................69 Alexander, Clarence and Lottie ..........................................................69 Railroad Section Gang .........................................................................70 Transportation in the Early 1900s ........................................................71 Old-time Medicine Shows ...................................................................72 First Colorado Dairy Show ..................................................................72 Map of Larimer County 1909 ..............................................................74 The 1910s .............................................................................................74 Hattie McDaniel in Fort Collins ..........................................................75 Stone Quarries West of Town ..............................................................76 Union Pacific Railroad .........................................................................76 Big Snow of 1913 ................................................................................77 1913 Snow ...........................................................................................78 Lawful Fence under Colorado Statutes