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Charlie Russell's Cowboy Years

Kit Carson in Colorado

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By Bill Lambdin Kit Carson was Colorado’s most famous mountain man and, like Buffalo Bill Cody, was a leg-end in his own time. In 1849 he was hired as a guide to help army troops rescue a woman who had been captured by Apaches. He and the troops ar-rived too late; the Apaches had killed the woman. But among her possessions, Kit found a dime novel titled “Kit Carson: Prince of the Gold Hunt-ers.” He discovered that he was famous. Born in 1809 in Tennessee, his family moved to Missouri where his father died, leaving his mother with 14 children. Kit knew he had to make his own way early; so at age 17 he set out for the Mountain West to become a fur trapper and hunter. At a rendezvous in 1835, some said he fought a duel with another trapper to win an Arapaho Indian girl as his woman. She later died, and he married a beautiful Mexi-can girl, Josefa Jaramillo, in Col-orado where he was working as a hunter at Bent’s Fort on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit was 34 when he married 15-year-old Josefa, who bore him seven children. It was a wonder he had that many. He was away from home most of the time serv-ing as a guide for government ex-plorations and army campaigns, including explorations up Poudre Canyon. Carson was a valuable guide because he spoke some Indian languages and could commu-nicate by sign with most of the tribes. He respected the Indians, was familiar with their customs, and had earned their trust. His reputation as an Indian fighter was exaggerated, mainly through inaccurate newspaper stories on the East Coast. He did have a few hand-to-hand fights with Indians, and he guided cam-paigns for the army against some

tribes. But he mainly respected them and realized their land was being taken by settlers. After rising to a high rank in the Civil War, Carson was appointed Colorado’s superintendent of In-dian affairs. He established his headquarters at Las Animas in southern Colorado and began working on a treaty between the Utes and the U.S. government. He wanted a treaty that was fair to the Utes. In fact, he wanted it so much that he traveled to Wash-ington, D.C., when he was in poor health. That trip cost him his life. He died in 1868 at age 59 shortly after returning to Colorado. Some historians say Carson was not a great leader, not very charismatic, and perhaps not able to read or write. But he became a symbol of the Old West and de-serves his place in history. It was no small feat for a 17-year-old boy to travel across unexplored lands in 1826. He faced death from wild animals, storms and other dangers he could not have prepared for.

He had to learn to be self-reliant and brave. There were times when he must have longed for his fam-ily and the security of home. But his home was a wild, untamed land that few other white men had seen. It was also a land of beauty as well as danger. Carson saw the vast, sun-filled horizons of the great plains and the huge buffalo herds thundering across the land. He heard the soft breezes that waved majestic pine trees high in snow-capped mountains. He saw valleys filled with wild flowers and native people living in har-mony with nature. He saw the West when it was young.________________COVER PICTURE: The Sand Dunes near Kit Carson’s Las Animas headquarters in south-ern Colorado. Taken by Colo-rado professional photographer Andy Cook. See his extensive photos, books, cards, and videos at www.RockyMountainReflec-tions.com. ■

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The name of the first stage-coach service between Fort Col-lins and North Park at Walden

was the “Cheyenne, Fort Collins and North Park Stage Route.”

The inclusion of Cheyenne in the name stemmed from the fact that the parent company was the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage headquartered in Cheyenne. That company was organized in 1876 primarily to handle the Black Hills gold rush.

From Fort Collins, the stage

ran north to LaPorte, Owl Canyon and the Forks Hotel. Then it went west toward Red Feather Lakes, south to Chambers Lake and then over Cameron Pass to North Park.

The parent stage company owned about 200 coaches. Six of them are known to exist in mu-seums, mostly in towns in Wyo-ming.

One coach that was used on the Fort Collins-North Park line and didn’t survive had a colorful

history, recorded by Helen Cody Wetmore:

“It was built in Concord, New Hampshire, and sent to the Pacific Coast to run over a trail infested with bandits. A number of times it was held up and passengers robbed, and finally both driver and passengers were killed, and the coach was abandoned on the trail.

“It remained derelict for a long time but was at last brought to San Francisco by an old stage driver and placed in service on the Over-land Trail. It gradually worked its way to the Deadwood route, and on this route figured in a number of encounters with Indians.

“Again driver and passengers were massacred, and again the coach was abandoned.”

And so was the Fort Collins-North Park stage line. ■

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By Bill Armstrong Fort Morgan (east of Greeley) started as Camp Tyler in 1864 situated along the Overland trail route, serving as a safe harbor for travelers amongst hostile plains tribes. The major part of the establish-ment of the fort was left to ex-confederate soldiers called “Gal-vanized Yankees.” The 5th US Volunteer Infantry and elements of the 3rd and 6th as well, all com-prised of repatriated confederate soldiers, had a large hand in build-ing the fort. These units began their journey west in April, 1865. The former rebel prisoners were enlisted for three years of military service, fighting Indians in the West rather than languish in prison camps of the East.

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By Bill Lambdin If you like Charlie Russell’s western art, you might enjoy a recent book, “Charlie Russell: The Cowboy Years,” by Montana writer Jane Lambert. It’s about Charlie’s life as a young man working on Montana cattle ranches and carousing with his cowboy friends—the wild years from age 17 until nearly 30 when he finally decided to take his art seriously. Charlie later said of those days: “When I drank, it was no secret.” One of his friends remembered: “If he ran out of silver, he would paint a picture and sell it for five or ten dollars, or he would take a piece of chalk and draw a pic-ture on the saloon floor. When he had drawn the picture, someone would buy a drink for the house. Russell didn’t want money; all he

wanted was a good time.” Author Jane Lambert said Charlie was first known as an or-nery kid among ranchers, but he later became a capable cowboy and was well liked—not only for his art but his good humor and kindness. In 1891 he was broke and man-aged to earn $25 for painting a picture; he badly needed mon-ey for food and clothes. As he walked down the street, he met a cowboy friend who couldn’t get a job because he didn’t have a pair of boots. Charlie gave him the $25. Charlie was also known as a great story teller. Will Rogers said he was the best he ever knew. This book contains many of Char-lie’s stories and gives an unusual look at real cowboy life in the late 1800s.

Here’s how author Jane Lam-bert describes the cowboys’ choices for fun one Saturday night: “With the cook’s beer hidden in the river, all they had to do was decide whether to go to the dance hall where it cost $2 to get in and $10 to get out; go to the high-toned

hotel dance with all the ‘virgins’; or go to the Indian encampments and watch the dancing, and drum-ming, whooping and fighting.” This entertaining book is available for $20 from Mountain Press, PO Box 2399, Missoula, MT 59806; email [email protected]; call 800.234.5308. ■

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New York, is facing the biggest cut, losing 0.9 percent of every payment. On average, hospitals in Maine, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah and South Carolina will fare the best, while hospitals in the Dis-trict of Columbia, Connecticut, New York, Wyoming and Dela-ware come out among the worst. The payment change was creat-ed by the 2010 federal health law and is part of the government’s effort to shift away from paying hospitals and doctors based on the quantity of care they provide with no regard for how good a job they did.________________Kaiser Health News is an editori-ally independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foun-dation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and com-munication organization not affil-iated with Kaiser Permanente. ■

(Editor’s Note: Wyoming histo-rian Margaret Laybourn wrote

this story.) A drive from Cheyenne west to the summit of Interstate 80 at Sherman Hill is a drive through the history of the area. General Grenville Dodge, a Civil War hero, was the surveyor for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1864. While searching for a route, Dodge and his group were threat-ened by Indians. Not relishing a battle, Dodge led his party on an escape route that turned out to be a relatively flat way to reach the summit that the railroad needed to cross. Dodge named the summit Sher-man Hill to honor General Sher-

man, another Civil War hero. Later US Highway 30 was built roughly following the old road-bed of the Union Pacific. It was named the Lincoln Highway, and a huge bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln was sculpted by Univer-sity of Wyoming art professor Robert Russin and placed on a red

rock pedestal to mark the summit of the highway.

Motorists today can also see the nearby Ames Monument, a huge rock pyramid that the Ames brothers, promoters of the Union Pacific Railroad, built as a monu-ment to themselves. Another reminder of the origi-nal railroad is a gnarled pine tree that appears to be growing out of

solid rock at the rest stop. Engi-neers on the early route stopped the train and carried water to the

brave little tree in the rock to en-sure its survival. Today it is said to be one of the most photographed sites on I-80 coast to coast. The strange rock formations along the route, which fascinated and puzzled early surveyors, were named “Veedawoo” by a drama professor at the University of Wy-oming in the 1920s when she put on a production in a natural am-phitheater formed by the rocks. ■

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Monument on I-80. Photo Margaret Laybourn.

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GREELEYCivic Center: UNC Gala presented by the College of Performing and Visual Arts, February 9. Voca People, music, February 14. Greeley Philharmonic, February 16. UNC Band, February 19. Texas Tenors, February 21. UNC Choirs, February 26. UNC Jazz Band, February 27. In The Mood, music, February 28. Call 356.5000.UNC Theatre: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Norton Theatre, February 7-17. Legally Blonde, Langworthy Theatre, March 3-10. Call 351.2515.UNC Music: Jazz Singers, February 13. Sunset Jazz Series, February 21. Chamber Winds Concert, March 5. Call 351.2515.

FORT COLLINSUsed Book Sale: Annual charity fundraiser by the American As-sociation of University Women and Soroptimist International, February 22-24. Call Lois Peltz, 226.2302.Pioneer Association will honor Dr. John Matsushima for his lifetime of work with the cattle/beef industry, February 16. Call Bonnie Crane, 226.4984.Tax Assistance: Free help preparing tax returns for people over age 60, February 1-April 15. Call 888.227.7669Lincoln Center: Paco Pena, flemenco guitarist, February 13. The Ten Tenors, February 17. Russian Ballet Theatre, February

20. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, February 21-23. Call 221.6730.CSU Music: University Symphony Orchestra, February 13. CSU Honor Band, February 21. Symphonic Band, February 21. Jazz Ensembles, February 27. Call 491.5529.

LOVELANDFoothills Pops Band, dancing and silent auction, February 9 at Embassy Suites. Call 221.6730.Rialto Theater: Singer-songwriter Ian Tyson, February 9. La Boheme by the Loveland Opera Theatre, February 15, 17, 22, 24. Handel’s Messiah, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, March 1. Danu: traditional music and songs from Ireland, March 2. Call 962.2120.

ESTES PARKJerry Barlow Concert, Celtic guitar, Stanley Hotel, February 10. Seminar on coyotes, Rky. Mt. Nature Association, February 16. Lark Powers Concert, classical piano and harp, Stanley Hotel, February 17. Exhibit by women artists, Fine Art Gallery, February 2 through March 31. Sandra Wong and the Thyme Quintet, Stanley Hotel, February 24. Call 577.9900.

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A Brief Quiz on Local HistoryBy Lois Hall

An excellent score for this quiz is 50% correct. 1. The first road over the moun-tains from Estes Park to Grand Lake was: (a) Trail Ridge Road. (b) Fall River Road. 2. The man who built the first hotel in Estes Park was: (a) F.O. Stanley. (b) Lord Dunraven. 3. F.O. Stanley first came to Estes Park because: (a) He had tu-berculosis. (b) He wanted to build the Stanley Hotel. (c) His wife was from Estes Park. 4. Saint Vrain Creek was named for a: (a) Christian saint. (b) Spaniard. (c) Fur trader. 5. Satanta Peak was named for a famous Kiowa warrior captured by Kit Carson. The peak is located in: (a) Rocky Mountain National Park. (b) Indian Peaks Wilder-ness. (c) Rawah Wilderness. 6. Roosevelt National Forest was named for: (a) Franklin D. Roosevelt. (b) Eleanor Roosevelt. (c) Teddy Roosevelt. 7. The Nokhu Crags above Poudre Canyon are also known as: (a) Rawah Peaks. (b) Sawtooth Mountain. (c) Medicine Bow Peaks. 8. Nokhu comes from an Arapaho Indian word meaning: (a) Where eagles nest. (b) Where lightning strikes. (c) Where the snow stays. 9. In 1873, Anna Dickinson was the first woman to climb

Longs Peak: (a) True. (b) False. 10.The high mountain clos-est to Longs Peak honors Gree-ley founder: (a) Horace Greeley. (b) Robert Cameron. (c) Nathan Meeker. 11. One of the few gold mining towns in northern Colorado, lo-cated on the Colorado River head-waters southwest of Long Draw Reservoir, was: (a) Lulu City. (b) Teller City. (c) Poudre City. 12. Another gold camp located between Poudre Canyon and Red Feather Lakes was: (a) Elkhorn. (b) Manhattan. (c) Rustic. 13. Lone Eagle Peak west of Longs Peak is nearly 12,000 feet high and was named for: (a) An Indian chief called Lone Eagle. (b) Aviator Charles Lindbergh. (c) Outlaw Charlie Eagle. 14. Lambs Slide on Longs Peak is named for early Estes set-tler Elkanah Lamb, who: (a) Slid down a snowbank below Longs for fun. (b) Nearly died sliding on ice there accidentally. ________________ANSWERS: 1.(b) Fall River Road. 2.(b) Lord Dunraven. 3.(a) He had tuberculosis. 4.(c) Fur trader. 5.(b) Indian Peaks Wilder-ness. 6.(c) Teddy Roosevelt. 7.(b) Sawtooth Mountain. 8.(a) Where eagles nest. 9.(b) False. 10.(c) Nathan Meeker. 11.(a) Lulu City. 12.(b) Manhattan. 13.(b) Aviator Charles Lindbergh. 14.(b) Nearly died sliding accidentally. ■

Are We Sicker Than Others? Americans are sicker than people in other wealthy countries, said reports from the Institute of Medicine and other sources. We rank at or near the worst for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, drug and alcohol deaths, AIDS, teenage pregnancies, infant mor-tality, and many other problems. The studies compared the U.S. with Canada, Great Britain and western European countries. “People in other high-income

countries are living longer lives and enjoying better health. What concerns our panel is why, for de-cades, we have been slipping be-hind,” said researcher Steven H. Woolf at Virginia Commonwealth University. Researchers attribute our de-cline in part to higher poverty rates and income disparities. Also poor education, lack of coordinat-ed healthcare, and we have fewer family doctors. ■

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main street. The mining days were over and the skiing boom had not started. It was about to become a ghost town. You could do just about what-ever you wanted and nobody would bother you. If the place had a lawman, he was probably dozing in his rattletrap car at the town’s lone gas station. That’s how the “flower chil-dren” found Telluride in the late 1960s and early 1970s—driving their Volkswagen mini-busses and smiling happily from giggle smokes.

And that’s when, in 1967, the town hired Everett Morrow as marshal. He believed his job was to get rid of those “damn hippies” who were making the place look bad to potential ski-resort devel-opers. Many townspeople agreed

with him. Morrow saw himself as an Old West lawman. He walked down Main Street with a six-gun low on his hip and a tin star on his vest. His deputies, when called upon to serve, did the same. He rounded up marijuana smokers and threw them in jail. He did background checks on vehicles with license plates from California and other “suspicious” places. In fact, after a while, everyone began to look suspicious. In 1974 some said Morrow tried to arrest a group of Jewish people who were celebrating Passover and sipping wine after 8 pm on a Sunday. Morrow became an embarrass-ment to town board members, and they fired him in 1974. An observer said he threw his badge across the table and said, “You can have that damn thing, but you can’t take my gun!” He was an Old West lawman long after the others were gone, ar-resting a different Wild Bunch. ■

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ted to the hospital, saving money and time. An EKG shows only if a per-son is having a major heart attack, not a minor one, and detects only about one-third of attacks. Most people who go to an emergency room with chest pain, thinking they are having a heart attack, do not have one, said researchers. ■

Bone Density Testing “Bone density testing has been oversold,” says researcher Steven Cummings at the University of California. He and others recently published a study in the New England Jour-nal of Medicine that says mature women do not need bone density tests to avoid osteoporosis nearly as often as many get them. Instead, most women can wait up to 15 years between tests unless a test shows they are near a danger zone. The study followed 5,000 women over age 67 for more than 10 years. Osteoporosis progresses much slower than previously thought, said researcher Dr. Margaret Gourlay. Medicare pays for bone density testing every two years, and many doctors have assumed that is the ideal time between tests. But these researches say that’s not so. ■

A Holiday in 1921By Karol Henderson Harding

Before the modern holiday of President’s day, February 22 was cel-ebrated as Washington’s Birthday. In 1921 the ladies of Fort Collins’ Cache la Poudre chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) celebrated the day with a “Colonial party.” In 1921, it was reported in the local society pages that the group met at the home of Mrs. Charles Lowell, 633 S. College Avenue. About 150 people were in attendance. The evening featured members dressed in co-lonial dresses, complete with powdered hair and servants in attendance. Music was provided throughout the evening by an orchestra from the conservatory of music. By candlelight, Mrs. P. J. McHugh spoke about the great man Wash-ington. After a demonstration of some modern jazz dances, Miss Anna Tedmon dressed as a child and recited a poem about colonial times called “Grandma told me.” Then a curtain opened upon a group of four lovely colonial ladies who danced the minuet with charming skill. They were Mrs. Charles Lowell, Mrs. Dewitt Malcourone, Mrs. Hopper and Miss Laura Louise Warren. As the last dancer left the room, the little girl opened her eyes and awakened from a beautiful dream in which she saw her grandmother dance, just as she had been told. Refreshments were served by colonial maidens, and the program ended with the group singing “America.” Colonial Day celebrations continued into the 1930s. Today’s DAR members sponsor an essay contest for school children to encourage an interest in our patriotic history. ■


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ProPublica researchers. Such fees have cost Medicare and the taxpayers who support it billions of dollars in extra pay-ments, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. That group wants Medicare to stop paying the fees and told Congress, “Medicare should be discourag-ing, not encouraging, expendi-tures by healthcare providers that do not benefit patients.” Hospital emergency rooms have increased Medicare billings for facility fees and doctor servic-es by more $1 billion in the past decade, said the Center for Public Integrity. These things do not apply to all medical practices. Researchers point out that some locally owned hospitals and providers still put pa-tients and their community first. ■

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Comedian Jeff Foxworthy is now focusing on Wyoming people instead of rednecks. He said: “If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them, you might live in Wyoming. “If you can drive 65 miles an hour through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you might live in Wyo-ming. “If your four seasons are al-most winter, winter, still winter,

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A Chicago Bears football coach happened to see a young man on TV in Afghanistan who could throw a hand grenade 100 yards. The coach hired him, taught him the game of football, and the team won the Super Bowl. The young Afghan called his mother and said, “I just won the Super Bowl!” She said, “I don’t want to talk to you. You are not my son.” “What’s wrong?” “At this very moment there are gunshots all around us, your brothers were nearly beaten to death last week, the neighbor-hood is a pile of rubble—I will never forgive you for making us move to Chicago.”

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