Boulder City and Boulder Diggings are revealed and cover a large area (you'd be surprised). From Gold Hill to Gregory's diggings encompass the norther portion of the mountain gold bonanza in 1859.

Deadwood, Greenhorn, Gamble Gulch / the Jefferson diggings, Lump Gulch, South Boulder Creek, the "Mountain House" (pie and coffee), first silver mine in Nebraska Territory?, and a toll road!

John Quincy Adams Rollins and Rollinsville? - NOT YET

Have fun, there's a lot of great bedrock in this show!

I love you,

JB

1859 Kansas Territory - Descriptions from three journalists of the same scenes - rare and interesting !

The Gregory Diggings were visited by three journalists (June '59) - one of which is known to all - the other two will be...

All had a hand in shaping our young country, albeit in different ways. When reading over these sections (while doing research) I thought it was so cool to read three versions of the same thing by great artists - which they indeed were! Each with a light on what they thought pertinent.

Henry Villard (image on cover art) - Albert Deane Richardson - Horace Greeley

Enjoy their genius, describing the cradle of future Colorado!

Thank you,

JB

Hi friends! Today, continuing through the gold regions in late summer of 1859, we first discover Georgetown (Griffith Brothers). Then, over the range to the South Park - bad news from the Arkansas, the Utes have murdered over a dozen in retaliation of the miners intrusion.

Description of the South Park and dawn of Georgetown, Colorado.

Bayou Salado, Georgetown, Guanella Pass, THE South Park, Hamilton, Jefferson, Tarryall, Idaho Springs, Chicago Creek, and more! 1859

Packed show,

Thank you for listening!

William Green Russell (image in cover art) has a HUGE plan to bring water from the snowy peaks, the continental divide, to Russell Gulch and beyond. The first "utilities" planned in the mountains.

The Fall River Ditch Company, The Rocky Mountain Ditch Company, the first newspaper in MOUNTAIN CITY (edited by Thomas Gibson and "FRED").

Idaho Springs, Spanish Bar, Mountain City, Nevada, Fall River, Clear Creek, Denver, Golden, Russell Gulch and Central City 1859.

Description of the area...and I finally find some GOLD.

James Beckwourth (cover art) , a freed slave (freed from his loving father) from Virginia, while part of a trapping expedition in the early 1820s, is captured by a band of Crow Tribal People while trapping in the wilds of modern Wyoming (within the boundaries the future Jefferson Territory).

James is mistaken for a long lost son of the tribe, he joins the Crow Nation as a result - going along with this mistaken identity.

As usual, a Beckwourth story always entertains, and his experiences add wonderful color to tribal life on the plains.

Enjoy!

And thank you for listening!

JB

First Pistol Duel in Denver, 1859 (Park McClure and Richard Whitsett (cover art) fight for honor on the banks of Cherry Creek.

Achilles and Hector - David and Goliath - Park McClure and Dick Whitsett?

Today, two 58ers have a private dispute and duel it out on the banks of Cherry Creek with 8" Navy Revolvers, at ten paces.

How did we get here, where did the idea of an honorable and gentlemanly deadly duel come from?

Today the duel, a few famous duels, the rules of the Duel (Code Duello 1777), then, Denver's first gentlemanly gunfight.

Best wishes and thank you for tuning in!

Further Reading:

History of Colorado, Hall, 1889 History of Denver, Smiley 1901 The Holy Bible, Martin Luther Translation (family bible 1600s from Germany) The Iliad, Homer

Desperate, lost and starving, Daniel Blue of Illinois prolongs his life by eating the flesh of his decaying friend and two brothers while traveling the Smokey Hill route to the Pikes Peak gold region in February of 1859.

This story of disaster and privation is THE first hand account, written by the survivor - Daniel Blue.

Alfred Packer is credited as the original "Colorado Cannibal", but this story takes place in future Colorado (Kansas Territory "K.T." at the time) fifteen years before Packer's accounts supposedly occurred.

Listen carefully, for the story has some interesting...

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A horror story on the Smokey Hill Trail - Deadly fire blows through mountains - The Boulder County Marshal Fire 2021/2022 - How to make Apple Cider Vinegar according to 1859 - Obituaries - Mountain Tour

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While the miners mine in future Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, a fire sweeps through the mountains killing 3 and their two animals. Two men freeze to death on the plains, leaving evidence that in the next to last stage of hypothermia, the suffers feel so hot they remove their clothing. A tornado rips through the plains killing one and sending loaded wagons skyward.

This episode, filled with primary information, is a collection of newspaper articles published between May and July of 1859 in the Rocky Mountain News. Thank you for listening.