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Colorados veterans will soon gainbetter access to the health carethey deserve.

In late June, the Senate Veterans

Affairs Committee authorized theconstruction of a state-of-the-artveterans care facility at the Fitzsimonscampus in Aurora. This a major leapforward towards completion of whatwill undoubtedly become a crownjewel for veterans health care in theUnited States.

As a former farmer in ColoradosSan Luis Valley, I am aware of theinequities that exist between veteranswho reside in rural, as opposed tourban, settings. That is why I foughtto include a number of initiatives inthe Veterans Affairs legislativepackage which I believe will help tosignificantly improve the lives ofrural veterans.

Access to health care is not solely a

problem experienced by veterans, but also by a Americas seniors and lfamilies. That is why I am

announce that La Platasouthwestern Colorado hasnated a Health ProfessionArea, which will make docounty eligible for Medpayments, possible re-pmedical school loans and tiveswhich should attracprofessionals to the area.

This opens the doorhealth care access for the residents who are currenttravel to Grand Junction.

I look forward to c

working on behalf throughout Colorado.________________You can call Sen. Sala

Collins office at 224-2200

VeteransServices

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Some people wonder how manyMedicare participants havesuccess when they call the Medicarehot line for information, 1-800-

Medicare.Senator Gordon Smith (R-Oregon)

had his staff call the phone numbernumerous times recently. Theyreported long delays for responses,and they received answers to ques-tions that varied widely, according toa New York Times report.

The average waiting time forsomeone to answer was 12 minutes,

Drug-resistant infections (like staph)that patients get during hospital

stays kill more people each year thandiabetes or Alzheimers100,000according to the U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Prevention.

But studies show that hospitals canvirtually eliminate the infections bydoing simple, inexpensive things suchas testing all patients for infectionswhen they enter the hospital.

Why dont all hospitals do it?Many think nothing can be done or

that they dont have a problemeventhough the infections have increased

Calls to Medicare Hotlbut numerous calls never at all. The staff receivedcalled a dizzying array to questions.

Medicare officials saitests show much shorttimes. Calls that dont gmay be due to local phproblems, they said. As foanswers to questions,spokesman Jeff Nelligen gators that the agency takproblems seriously anresolve them.

22 percent since 1995Americas hospitals billitreatment.

Hospitals that have dthing include the VeterHospital in Pittsburgh, winfection rate by nearly 80doing things like testing eproviding hand sanitizeroom and discarding blocuffs after using them.

Only one-fourth of Utake such measures. Sever

countries have all but eliminfections.

Drug Resistant Infecti

ByU.S. SenatorKen Salazar


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egan as a beautiful Septemberin 1879, but it ended in horrorthe last Indian uprising in

adothe Meeker Massacre.rvilla Meeker was in the kitchen

Indian agency her husband ran.was washing dishes when shethe shots.

he looked out the window andhe men of the agency runninghouting.he Utes were shooting everyone,g fire to the buildings.odies began falling before her

unshots were everywhere, fillingr with a deafening noise.he grabbed her young daughter,phine, and yelled to the other

an, Flora, to get her children andor the milkhouse. It was the onlyng with thick walls.

he Indians were shooting into alluildings, screaming in high, wilds that rang out above the hail ofs.rvilla hoped the thick walls of

milkhouse might stop the bullets.women reached it and huddled inner.errified, they didnt dare look outindow. They could only listen toaughter outside. It went on forours.rvilla heard the screams of thewhen they were shot, then morems when they were scalped ord open by knives.he heard the buildings collapse asburned, horses running and falling

shot, screams from the animalswith those of the men.

When it finally ended, the Indiansged the women from theng.

very white man at the agency lay

or in the agony of death.rvilla saw her husband dead onground. He had been shotgh the head at close range, thened. A stake was driven throughmouth, pinning him to thend.My God! she thought. Whatappened? Why did they do it?

seemed to happen withoutng. But she should have seen it

ng.he Meeker Massacre was thet of misguided intentions and

judgmentwhite people tryingddenly change the way Indians

had lived for centuries.Nathan Meeker had founded the

town of Greeley in 1870, then becomethe government agent at the WhiteRiver Indian Agency in westernColorado.

He was an honest, highly princi-

pled man. But he didnt understandthe people he was supposed to help.He insisted the Utes give up their

way of life and become farmers.Without realizing it, he threatenedthem in many ways.

Meeker forced the Ute men to walkbehind plows, a supreme humiliationfor them in front of their wives andchildren. He plowed up their horse-racing track and did other things theyconsidered threatening.

When he requested a cavalry troopbe dispatched to the agency, the Utes

figured they would be killed or forcedfrom their land. They attacked the

agency on September 29, 1879.The only survivors were the

womenMeekers wife Arvilla anddaughter Josephine, a woman namedFlora Price and her two small chil-dren. They were later rescued bycavalry troops.

Eleven white men died at theMeeker Massacre. It was the last majorIndian uprising in the United States,and it never should have happened.

The site is marked in westernColorado near the town of Meeker,named for Nathan Meeker.________________COVER PICTURE: American Gold-

finch, taken by Fort Collinsprofessional photographer Gregory

Mayse. See his photos at the PoudreRiver Arts Center and Benson Galleryin Fort Collins, plus the Art Center of

Estes Park, and at www.gregory-mayse.com.

ndian Attack 1879

Greeley founder Nathan Meeker in the late 1800s.

Hazel Johnson Collection.


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Letter from a Greeley Pioneors Note: Greeley historian

l E. Johnson wrote the

wing story years ago.)

azel Johnson

When Willard Darling of In-dependence, Iowa, read

an Meekers Call in the NewTribune in 1869, proposing to

blish a Colony in Coloradoory, Darlings wife exclaimed,ts where we want to go.arling arrived at Greeley inof 1870 with the first group ofn Colony settlers. His wife andren came in the spring of 1871.wing are excerpts from letters

en by Darling to his wife. Theyw both the enthusiasm and

pointment he and many otherey settlers felt:

May 15, 1870. I am in theised land. Between 40 and 50 and houses are scattered

nd. There are between 400 andpeople, a good many womenhildren.

The first night, we went to ahouse called a hotel. We all laye floor and paid 25 cents each,ng but two blankets to lie on.May 23, 1870. I never was so

pointed in my life. Nothing ass represented. I do not believeever was anything gotten up

e so many were disappointed.od many others do not knowto do.think the Colony will amount

mething after a while, but noought to have come until nextexcept a few and made a placee rest.

I would not stay 24 hours, but Ithink there will be good schools and

a good society. I cannot see much tomake a big town. There is no waterpower, no timber nearer than themountains.

July 10, 1870. They had quite atime here on the 4th. The colonistsare doing a great deal to make thetown handsome and attractive.There have been two lakes made inCentral Park, very handsome treesset all around them and water is

Someone said early Greeley looked like a bunch of dry goods boxes scattered over the bac

of the Almighty. Photo Hazel Johnson Collection.

brought from the canal. Littlestreams of water run by the sides of

the streets all over town.There is a great deal of work

being done grading the streets.Greeley will be a beautiful place intime.

Later, Mr. Darlings wife and chil-dren arrived in Greeley. The familystayed and became substantialmembers of the community. Mr. andMrs. Darling celebrated their 54thwedding anniversary in Greeley.

During their early dcolony, their two sons

the cattle herd up the htown to graze each day University of Northernnow stands). Exactly Mrs. Darling went uphung out a black skirt, her sons to bring the hetown.

Life was not easypioneers hung on, makiand the West what they a

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ocal History Book

ill Lambdin

The Streets of Fort Collins byCharlene Tresner is a fine

l history book originallyished in 1977. It was out offor years, but a new updated

on was recently published byn Hoskinson, historian ander Triangle Review newspapersher.resner established the localry section of the Fort Collinsic Library and served as itstor from 1973 until she retired85. She was a fifth generation

mer County resident, born inon a farm five miles north of

.he graduated from ColoradoAgricultural College (now CSU)e she was features editor for theols newspaper and later wrotees for magazines while servinghome demonstration agent. Shewrote history articles for Ther Voice when at the library.resner knew many early Fortns residents and included valu-

information from them in herk. For instance, she said ofer Elias Whitcomb:n 1873, Whitcomb Street wasestern border of Fort Collins. Ited its name from a member ofAgricultural Colony (thatded the town), Elias W.comb. He came to this area infrom Massachusetts.

Whitcomb lived for a while in anear the army fort that estab-

d Fort Collins, according to oneesners sources. But he rapidly

me successful.Within three or four years, he

owned a substantial log ranch homeon the BoxelderStill later he

enjoyed an elegant town house inCheyenneFor a boy who freightedalong the Western trails in the 1850sand walked a thousand miles bare-foot, much of the way throughprickly pear cactus because he hadlost his only boots, this was quite anachievement.

In Cheyenne, Whitcomb investedin ranching and became involved inthe infamous Johnson County War of1892 by joining powerful, wealthyranchers who hired over 50 gunmento wipe out small farmers who weresettling grazing lands. That was thetime gunman Tom Horn was hiredand later hanged for allegedly killinga farmers young son.

Tresner did not say how activeWhitcomb was in that range war,which resulted in the big ranchersbeing sent to trial after federaltroops stopped the killing. None ofthose ranchers was ever prosecuted;they had so much power that peoplewere afraid to testify against them.

But Tresner did say that

Whitcomb was struck by a bolt oflightning on his Wyoming ranch andkilled in 1915.

Whitcomb is just one of themany interesting pioneers whosenames appear today on Fort Collinsstreets, and Tresner includes virtu-ally all of them. The 110-page bookhas many historic photographs andis available for $24.95 at local book-stores and the Fort Collins Museum.Or you can order it from PattersonHouse Publishing, 121 GrantAvenue, Fort Collins, CO 80521,

phone 970-484-7137, email:[email protected]

rlene Tresners father, Charles Tresner (left), with Clair Dixon in

4 in a grocery store delivery truck. Fort Collins Public Library.

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The Shadlers hviciously defended byblack Labrador...andIndians killed it, they recbravery by cutting a fur its side.________________ Robert Munkres, Ph.DEstes Park and has wrsively about early WyomWest.


1874 party of buffalo hunters whocamped at a trading post calledAdobe Walls. A Comanche attack atdawn caught the brothers sleeping ina wagon instead of in the mainbuilding.

They were discovered by theattacking warriors and killed. Whathappened to the dog was describedby James Haley in his book, TheRed River War:

Pioneers on theOregon Trail

A wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Wyoming History M

obert Munkres

852, when the Scott family leftir home in Illinois and startedhe Oregon Trail, they first hadoss the Illinois River by ferry ata.t this point, it was discoveredhe family dog, named Watch,still with them. Mr. Scott putog off the ferry and told it toack home and stay with grand-r.ore than half a century later,et Scott (who was 11 years olde time), remembered that sheked back and saw our old doging on the distant shore.ome six months later, with they settled in Oregon, Harrietssister wrote, We had a letter toffect that the poor dog went..to the family house and refusedand in a short time he died.lsewhere, Harriet A. Loughary4) and her party stopped briefly

one morning at a camping placewhere grass and water was found,but the first object that met our eyeswas a newly made grave by theroadside, with the following noticewritten on a slip of paper and tackedon (a) piece of bark at the head ofthe grave:

Killed by Indians last night...Hisfaithful dog, which had not beencaptured, was watching the graveand could not be induced to leavewith food or coaxing.

Mrs. Lougharys party stoppedlong enough to get feed for ourstock and breakfast for ourselves. Inabout two hours Capt. Smith orderedthe train to move. One can onlywonder what fate eventually befellthe faithful furry friend whose loyaltywent to the grave and beyond.

Ike and Shorty Shadler owned ablack Labrador that accompaniedthem everywhere, sleeping at theirfeet at night.

The two brothers were part of the


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Your Questions on Estate Plannion Rutzl Correspondent

We just moved to Colorado andbeen swamped by estate plan-solicitations. We went to one

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ves. If we had only known hownsive and complicated it is ton Colorado, we would neverrelocated.: Its not expensive. If yourwere good in your home state,are valid in Colorado, alongDurable Powers of Attorney

OA), although DPOAs are morey to need changes just becauseur move.Colorado for a married couple$2 million or less of taxable

h, all that is needed is a stan-

will, durable powers ofney, possibly a living will, andg everything either in jointcy or having each other namedneficiary or payable on death.

of the basic documents willably cost less than $300 forspouse to set up.

For both federal and Coloradoestates, there is no tax until $2million of taxable value has beenaccumulated. That figure is going upto $3.5 million in 2009. There is notax in 2010 on any amount. In 2011,the exemption drops back to $1million.

Thus, for a couple currently withno tax exposure, just doing willswould be a rational choice for thetime being. If tax planning is neededfor defensive planning, a tax willversus a tax living trust is a viablealternative in Colorado, costinganywhere from one-half to one-fifththe amount usually paid for a livingtrust.

I might suggest redoing theDurable Powers of Attorney eventhough your out-of-state powers

should work in Colorado. Often it iseasier for the agent to use thewording and the format that isfamiliar in Colorado.

I also prefer to sign four originalDPOAs in case the principalbecomes incapacitated and cantsign additional DPOAs. The cost isusually under $100 for each set of

four Powers. Remember, durablepowers of attorney are still neededeven with living trusts in place.

I might also suggest that youreplace any out-of-state living wills(the shut off the machines docu-ment) since the Colorado form is freeat any hospital and in my opinion hasless of a chance of being rejected.

Joint tenancy with right ofsurvivorship and having each of youas the others payable on death rounds

out the Colorado estate pfirst death, there is no prosecond death, using unadministration, the costestate through court is lesif no attorney is involved.________________ Attorney Ron Rutz will a

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admiration for the courageous menand women who work at the DOCfrom the top down. They are theunsung heroes in our governmentand I have always worked to

promote legislation that makes theirlives easier.

I am hopeful that recently-appointed DOC head, Ari Zavaras,as a former lawman himself, willmake the livelihood of prisonworkers one of his top priorities.These men and women risk theirlives every day to keep the citizensof our state safe from the worst ofcriminals. It is a tragedy when anyone of these individuals is put inunnecessary harms way, such as a

riot due to a crowded prison.Mr. Zavaras is indeed going tohave to be aggressive when lookingfor funding to help bolster his belea-guered department. Sadly, prisonsare an issue that is difficult to garnerattention for, and therefore it is evenharder to get most lawmakers to pay

attention to it.Privatization is only o

solving this puzzle. Westrive to lower the recidthrough improved rehprograms.

I would advocate allo

incentives for faith-basein prisons and jails. Wtional programs incompletely necessary, tare not enough; the soul healed in order to ensurebilitation.

The problem of prisstate is something that hfix. I hope the newly eDemocrat-controlled exlegislative branches will allowing more private

Colorado. I will continsupporter and championcorrections workers, private, and will strive to mconditions better for all in

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Scenic Drives at Grand Junctioll Lambdin

mrock Drive in ColoradoNational Monument at Grandion is often missed by travelersuse they dont realize Coloradon addition to mountain routes,of the Wests most spectacular

canyon drives.his is one of them. It runs alonge dinosaur country, through 2-n-year-old rock formations, pastng cliffs and spectacular geolog-ormations.he area was once a primevaln floor, then an immense swampof dinosaurs and other exoticures. In 1901 paleontologistr Riggs discovered skeletons ofpatosaurus and Brachiosaurus atase of the Monument. Manyfinds have been made nearby,

ctive excavations continue todaybbit Valley and other sites.t a stop in the Monument calleds Kitchen, you can walk a short

mile trail and see ancient Indiandrawings carved in a stone slab.old Shivers Point, youll catchbreath standing on red rock cliffsrop hundreds of feet below you.

erpents Trail is a pioneer roadbedwas once called the crookedestin the world. On a six-mile walk

Monument Canyon Trail, youthrough a billion years of

gic history.t nearby Rattlesnake Canyon,can backpack into Coloradosremote canyon area, which isf large, natural rock arches andhidden canyons that few peopleee. If you want true backcountry

g and camping away from vehi-and crowds, Rattlesnake Canyonplace.

panish explorers saw this area in700s in their search for a routeSanta Fe to California. In 1906 anorsman named John Otto arrived

wrote: I found these canyons, and

feel like the heart of the world tom going to stay and build trailspromote this place, because itd be a national park.ome locals thought Otto was a

hermit. He lived in a tent andall his time hiking in this huge,

plored region of isolated canyonsiant rock monoliths.e was actually a dedicated natu-, finding and building trails so

unique area could be opened toe generations. And he was

essful. In 1911 President Taft

ed a bill creating Coloradonal Monument. John Otto was

named its custodian. He accepted asalary of $1 a month.

You can walk some of the trails hebuilt. John Ottos Trail is a shortquarter-mile hike across a high,narrow promontory to a fine view ofsome of the Monuments mostunusual rock formations.

He also built the trail that begins atMonument Canyon Trailhead. It is asix-mile walk that drops 600 feet to

the valley floor, through a billionyears of geologic history, soaring rocktowers and spectacular canyonscenery. This is one of the mostpopular hikes in the Monument.

Scenic overlooks include the oneat Independence Monument, a 500-foot-high rock monolith rising fromthe top of a huge sandstone cone. Ottofirst climbed it on Independence Day,1910; hence the name. The parksvisitor center contains excellent infor-mation and offers ranger-led walks.

Unaweep Scenic Byway is adifferent, very remote canyon drive

southeast of Grand Junction to the smalltowns of Gateway and Naturita. Youwill see fewer people on this road thanon most Colorado highways.

The drive takes you through hugecanyon valleys surrounded by highcliffs and along isolated plateaus thathave no roads and no civilization nearthem.

It begins 15 miles south of GrandJunction on Highway 50 at the town ofWhitewater, where you take Highway142 southwest toward Gateway. Theroad follows an Indian trail that later

became a stagecoach route.You soon enter Unaweep Canyon,

which Spanish explorers first saw in1776. Unaweep is an old Ute wordmeaning canyon with two mouths,referring to two rivers that met here.Millions of years ago, the ColoradoRiver and Gunnison River ran throughthis canyon, before geologic forces liftedthe land and changed the riverscourses.

Some of Colorados oldestexposed rocks are in UnaweepCanyon, nearly 2 billion years

old, and the place is considered ageological treasure. The nearbyUncompaghre Plateau was part of anancient Rocky Mountain range thatexisted 250 million years before thepresent Rockies were formed.

If you like to climb 500-foot cliffsand rocks, try the Quarry Wall justpast Divide Road or the Sunday Wallfarther west at the American AlpineClubs access area.

Near Thimble Rock, youll see thestone remains of Driggs Mansion, builtin 1914 by a wealthy New York lawyerwho, for some reason, never lived in

the house. It had chandeliers and veryexpensive decor. Later it served as ahunting lodge for some years but haslong been abandoned, except for anoccasional bear or mountain lion thatmay amble through it.

Beyond the town of Gateway, youdrive below a high mesa with thecurious name of Sewemup Mesa (sewem up). Its called that because foryears a cattle rustling gang broughtstolen cattle here, cut off their brandsand sewed up the hide before attachingtheir own brand.

There are many scenic overlooks onthis drive where you have fine views of

the distant La Sal MountaUtah and the snow-cappeMountains that cover muwestern Colorado.

Another drive, eastJunction, takes you to tlargest flat-top mountMesa. Take Interstate Highway 65 and cPowderhorn Ski Area to foot summit of this unu

formed 10 million yearvolcanic lava flows.This is a beautifully fo

with nearly 300 lakes osummit and many fine hleading to grand vistas. Slarger lakes offer good fiwere formed ages ago by the Indians had a more conation for their origin:

The Utes believed theformed when great Thkilled a giant serpent thathe birds young. TThunderbirds attacked t

ripped it into hundreds ofdropped the pieces from tthe mesa. Those pieces they formed holes that water, creating the lakes.

If youre on Grand Messee the view from Lands Esee all the way to Utahs dcountry and the surroundiMountains in Colorado. YLands End Road backJunction if you like hair-rabacks along 1,000-fooOtherwise, you can retu

Cedaredge and Delta, the growing region in Colorado

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ugust 2007 The Senior Voice

Most of the people who comehere are country music fans, but thatdoesnt mean they dont listen toother music, Williams said then. Hehad netted 17 gold records for hisrenditions of standard pop songs likeMoon River, Born Free, Lipsof Wine and Days of Wine andRoses.

He said he first visited Bransonin 1991 when he attended theopening of country singer RayStevens Branson theater. Williamsbrother, Don, was Stevens manager.

After the show, Williamsrecalled, when the lights came up,somebody saw me in the audience

and yelled out my name, andhundreds of people turned aroundand started yelling up at me, Whydont you come to Branson? And Irealized these were some of thesame people who came to see me inTulsa, Chicago, Minneapolis and theother cities where I toured.

rs Note: Gwen Gibson wroteollowing story several years

wen Gibson

uld a pop singer with amooth, citified act find successOzark Mountain tourist town

e country music was king?nger Andy Williams proved itd happen in 1992 when heed his Moon River Theater inson, Missouri, the little townbecame a mecca for bigtimery music performers.

Williams, known for his mellow

and easy Crosby style, opened,000-seat theater May 1 of that Located next door to the-seat Grand Palace of Countryc, Williams place was the firstg Bransons neon-lighteder strip to feature a non-countryr.

RememberingAndy Williams

Williams also realized thatBranson, with its population then ofabout 4,000 permanent residents,was expected to draw over sixmillion visitors in 1992. Within 10months, the entertainer had packedup his homes and businesses in LosAngeles and New York and movedto the Ozarks.

His welcome to hillbillyheaven was marred, however, whenhe found himself accused of slam-ming his new hometown. The furorstarted when Williams gave an inter-view to a reporter for the NashvilleTennessean newspaper.

Two statements by the big citysinger, which were reprinted in theSpringfield, Missouri NewsLeader, raised the hackles of long-time residents of Branson, which sawitself as a close-knit family town.

In the first statement, Williamsasked, Why would anyone want tobuild a theater in Branson? In thesecond, he used the word crap in

criticizing the equipment in some ofBransons older theaters.

He didnt dispute the quotes butargued that they were taken out ofcontext when used in the Springfieldnewspaper. I did question whyanyone would build in Bransonwhen my brother first made thesuggestion, he said.

I had never been to the Ozarks.But as the original story said, once Ivisited Branson I fell in love withthe whole area. Its really quite

beautiful. Why else would I spendall that money and change my whole

life around if I didnt thinthe town?

Williams insisted thaabout the technical aBransons theaters was ntion on other entertaineperformers in Branson arhe said at the time. Meditor of the Bransonsaid local resentment after her newspapeWilliamsexplanations.

Underlying the brouhrivalry, real or manbetween urban Nashvilleof country music, and rurthe new center of live coshows.

The Branson boom1983 after Hee Hawsopened a theater in the tuMany other top countrysoon followedMickLoretta Lynn, Conway TTillis and Reba McEntire

Williams later built a

200-room hotel and a adjacent to his Moon RivThe veteran singer chimself to an exhausting two, two-and-one-half hsix nights a week backedpiece orchestra. He offerefamiliar standards from and award-winning televwhich ran from 1962 to 1

He said at the time, Isong from my NashvilleI wont do any other cou

Garth Brooks has nothinabout.

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In 2000, a largerbronze statue of Janis won the corner of ShieldHorsetooth in FortCommissioned by Bilmade by Shelley Ketribute to the areas fist

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Antoine Janis cabin, built in 1844, still stands on the For

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ntoine Janis came to northernColorado in the early 1800s asrst white settler in the Poudrey.e was born in 1824 at St.les, Missouri and first cameat age 12 with his father and ap of French trappers. Theyd a keg of gun powder in a pitthe present village of Bellvueder to lighten their load over

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be the daughter of Chief BoldWolf.

Janis often traded at FortLaramie in Wyoming and some-times served as an interpreter forthat army post. He adopted aSioux name meaning Yellow hairall messed up. His brother alsomarried an Indian woman.

In 1866, President AndrewJackson reportedly signed the firstLarimer County homestead landpatent to Janis. In 1878 he moved

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Early Cheyenn

Camp Carlin, the most remote armysupply center in the United States,

was established in 1867 near Fort D.A.

Russell in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The official name was Cheyenne

Depot, but even government records

listed it as Camp Carlin, named for

Colonel Elias B. Carlin, who chose

the site and built the camp.

It supplied 12 army posts along

400 miles of a perilous frontier. Tons

of supplies were unloaded and trans-

ferred to other military establishments

food, guns, ammunition, clothing,everything.

There were 16 huge warehouses

and deep root cellars to store potatoes,

vegetables and other perishable items.

One hundred wagons and five pack

trains operated from Camp Carlin.

Nothing is left of the camp now,

but it was a marvel in its heyday, with

hundreds of horses, mules and oxen in

large stables. It contained blacksmith

shops, wheelwright shops, carpenter

shops, and saddle and hastations. Cook houses an

fed and housed the men.

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mountain men who had b

the wilds of Wyoming wh

the camp? It must have

whelming to see suc

transplanted to the prairie.

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activityunloading th

reloading the wagon t

frantic haste. Teamsters f

part of the camps populatFamed pioneer police

Cahill was born in the ca

immigrant parents. His f

teamster; and after the cl

camp, he worked excava

capitol building in Cheyen

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of Cheyenne to the abu

laborers, craftsmen, mer

roustabouts that came f

Carlin.

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aking a realistic toy was a dreamBob Smith had when heered out of the military afterd War II.e had flown P-40s in China with

lying Tigersthe planes deco-with sharks teeth behind the

ellers in an attempt to frightening Japanese.he Flying Tigers were headed byred U.S. Army flyer who wasby Chiang Kai-shek in 1937 to air advisor to the Chinese air

e when the Japanese beganing the country.

he advisor was Claire Chennault,at first he helped the Chinese; but they ended up destroyingeir planes with bad landings.nault went to America to obtainnd came back with 100 obsoletefighters and some American. The invading Japanese were

d around.ecause the U.S. was not at warJapan at that time, the Chinesernment offered the Americans as of $500 for each Japanesethey shot down.

When Bob Smith mustered out, heaccumulated $10,000 from hisate shooting in China. With thisey, he financed the new toyany of Smith-Miller.att Miller was a partner Smith

ed up with because of Millersn skills. The prototype toys were

of wood before moving on tocasting and the actual manufac-

turing of metal parts.The toy trucks became an instant

hit because they were so accurate inscale to a real Mac truck. There waseven a miniature bulldog as a hoodornament. For the big double trailersof the semi trucks, they used polished

aluminum with official companynames of freight haulers printed onthe sides.

Many toy companies used replicasof existing vehicles: Buddy L madetheir trucks look just like theInternational trucks. Keystone toytrucks looked just like a Packard, andTonka followed a Ford design.

In 1947 Bob Smith left the scene

after selling his interest in thecompany. The big toy trucks sold foran average of $20 each. It was anexpensive toy, but they were well builtand took a lot of punishment from thehands of little boys in the sandbox orback yard.

Many of the toys exist today in

carefully protected collections. Thecompany spent $65,000 just for themolds of a special fire ladder truck,and that truck is a choice item incollections today.

By 1952 problems plagued thecompany. Someone wanted to makethe toys out of plastic to cut costs,and then the company namedchanged to Miller-Ironton. Theletters MIC were gone, and the littlebulldog disappeared from the hood.The toys were still durable, but thecompany had lost in its struggle to

make quality toys by 1955; and theywere broke.

In 1978 Fred Thompson took overthe remnants of the toy factory andbegan assembling toys from stock leftover from more lucrative days. Hesold the toy trucks for $700 for a setof two.

Fred is proud that the tough old

Smith-Miller trucks are still in exis-tence and being enjoyed by collectors.They are a good example of a lastingproduct in these days of throw-away

plastic toys.Another of Freds pr

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stes Park Settlers in the 1800eggy Hunt

884, William Hallett thoughtwas a goner when he fell into aer crevasse above Estes Park.e was alone. The crevasse waset deep and two feet wide. Its

m was filled with water, and itswere sheer, slippery ice.

uckily, he was a strong, youngThrough extreme exertion, heged to climb out and get downe glacier.allett was one of the first menowe Glacier. In spite of thatience, he climbed many moun-

and helped form the firstntain climbing club in Colorado.ct, he was the star climber of they Mountain Club.

Well known Halletts Peak south-of Estes Park was later namedhis early engineer who came torado in 1878 after graduatingthe Massachusetts Institute of

nology.e had a cattle ranch west ofland and grazed his herds in

over an open campfire.And thats how tw

Parks famous landmarknames.

the mountains near Estes Parkduring summer months. In 1882 hehelped form the Powder RiverLivestock Company, which ran over

24,000 head of cattle in Wyominguntil the severe winter of 1886 killedall but 8,000 head.

After that, Hallett was amanager for a mining company andlived in Denver. But he spent everysummer in Estes Park with his wifeand children.

They lived in a house they built,called Edgemont, near MarysLake, and Hallett spent every freemoment climbing the high peaks inthe area. He loved the mountains somuch that, when he married in1879, his idea of a honeymoon wasto take his bride on a horsebackride from Estes Park to GrandLake.

Hallett did not discover RoweGlacier where he fell into thecrevasse. Israel Rowe (rhymes withhow) found it in 1880 due to anunusual circumstance.

That year, great clouds ofgrasshoppers flew across the plains,into the Rockies and died in themountains. Bears consider grasshop-pers a delicacy, and many bearsaround Estes Park went after thehoppers.

Rowe was a bear hunter. Whilepursuing one, he discovered theglacier later named for him.

Rowe and his wife came to EstesPark in 1875 to help build a road.She had two small children but

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am retired and 69 years old. I

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By Michael HollisSocial Security Office, Greeley

Here is some Social Security infor-mation you might find helpful as

you plan for retirement.For the average wage earner,

Social Security replaces about 40percent of pre-retirement earnings.The amount of your retirement isbased on your age at retirement andon your earnings averaged over mostof your working lifetime.

Your benefit can increase in twoways. First, each additional year youwork adds another year of earnings toyour Social Security record, and

higher lifetime earnings may result inhigher benefits when you retire.Second, your benefit increases by

a certain percentage when you delayretirement. For example, if you wereborn in 1936, your benefit increases 6percent each year you delay retire-ment, up to age 70. The maximumSocial Security benefit in January

2006 for a worker retiretirement age was $2,053

Social Security be

considered taxable incomciaries whose countabexceeds certain limits.income includes adjuincome, tax-exempt interand part of Social Security

The amount of Socibenefits subject to federal i(1) up to 50 percent for annual incomes from $25$44,000; and (2) up to 85people whose incomes excand joint tax filers whoexceed $44,000.

For more information Security and retirement pSocial Securitys wwww.socialsecurity.gov. OrSocial Security at 1-80(TTY, 1-800-325-0778) anpublication Retirement Becan also call your local Sooffice.

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Over 20 percent of hospitalworkers give the wrong advice to

patients who call and ask what theyshould do if they might be having astroke. And most Americans confusethe warning signs of a stroke withthose of a heart attack.

Those were the findings of a studyreported in the medical journalStroke.

Hospital workers often advisedpeople to see their family doctor. Theyshould have told them to call 911 and

get to a hospital quiresearchers.

Stroke treatment needssoon as possible when wappear. It could take cotime to reach a family doc

When researchers askand hospital workersfor signs, most gave those attack (chest pain, etc.) istroke (numbness on onebody, trouble speakinheadache, etc.).

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If you take low doses of aspirin toavoid heart problems, be careful whatother pain killer you combine it with.

Thats the conclusion of a report inthe Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.Researchers concluded that naproxenis the best pain killer to combine withaspirin.

Other pain killers such asibuprofen might interact unfavorably

with aspirin. The researchers werelooking at pain killers commonly used

by rheumatoid arthritis suothers seeking pain relief.

Traditional NSAIibuprofen in particular, dpotential to interact with thaspirin, said Dr. Michaelat the Mount Sinai Medicine in New York.

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1923 a Boulder man namedFair was promoting local

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ome pilots considered trying

tunt. But after examining then and looking at the dangers,of them wanted to try it

pt a young, lanky barnstormerd Slim Lindbergh.e flew his plane to Boulder oneand told Fair he would land

where for $1,000. Fair was

exciteduntil he saw Lindberghsplane. It was a beat up, rickety thingheld together mainly by bailingwire.

Fair decided that, if the planecrashed, Boulder would get thewrong kind of publicity. So he toldLindbergh he didnt think he couldmake a safe return trip.

Lindbergh pointed out that theoffer said nothing about a return trip.I dont plan to fly out, he said.

He was simply going to skidonto the glacier and leave theplaneprobably ruined anyway bythe landingon the mountain. Hefigured he could buy another one for$1,000.

The Boulder promoters turnedhim down. But just four years later,Slim Lindbergh made the first trans-Atlantic flight from New York toParis and acquired a new nickname,Lone Eagle, for the daring journeyhe made alone.

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kview Mountain Trail is aoderate ten-mile roundtrip, dayeast of Steamboat Springs and35 miles southwest of Walden.ou climb to the 12,300-foot

mit of Parkview Mountain and

the highest point of the RabbitMountain Range.ou should see elk and fewer hikersthan in many other parts ofado. You also have fine views ofh Park and Middle Park, hugeing valleys between the mountains of northern Colorado.ou can see most of thenental Divide that runs through

hern Colorado here. If theher is clear, you can see all theto Wyomings Medicine Bowe and, with binoculars, the sand

at the south base of that range.o the east lie the Never Summere and the high peaks in Rockyntain National Park. Also to theis the Walden area, whichins the largest moose herds inado.

o reach the trailhead, go south of

Walden on Highway 125 to the top ofWillow Creek Pass. Just over the passabout one-half mile, you can parkalong the second timber road on yourright, walk up the road to a small

stream, turn right, then left where theroad forks, and start your climb.

Another hike, the Wyoming Trail,is a long 40-mile hike along theContinental Divide, north fromBuffalo Pass through the MountZirkel Wilderness Area and into theMedicine Bow National Forest just

across the Wyoming border.This trail is above treeline much of

the way and difficult to follow inplaces. So get a good map from theHahns Peak Ranger District. You can

shorten the hike by going only partway to Seedhouse Road near thevillage of Clark.

Local ranchers use part of theWyoming Trail, and you might seecattle as well as deer and elk. Youwill certainly see some of Coloradosfinest backcountry and enjoy viewsof mountain ranching and huntingareas.

This part of the state is especiallycolorful in autumn when the aspenturn gold and the oakbrush deep red,transforming entire mountain sidesinto bright, living canvases.

Other good hikes in the Steamboatarea include the one to Luna Lake,where you will find good fishing inthe Mount Zirkel Wilderness Area.

Many trails take off fromSeedhouse Road (Forest Service Road400), including those leading toGilpin Lake, Gold Creek Lake andThree Island Lake. The trail to DomeLake is an especially good back-packing trip where you can climb an11,740-foot giant monolith called the

Dome.Fish Creek Falls near Steamboat isa spectacular 283-foot waterfall thatmany people drive to. You can view itfrom above by hiking Fish Creek FallsTrail, which also continues along theContinental Divide to another groupof waterfalls and some good campsites.

The Mount Zirkel Wilderness Areanorth of Steamboat offers many lesscrowded trails. Hikes here includethose to Gold Creek Lake, IcelandLake and Mica Lake, all of which

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any Medicare participants stillhave trouble determiningh drug plans cover the medi-they need under the MedicareD program, according to a

nt report in the Journal of therican Medical Association.early 60 percent surveyed sayhave had trouble getting a

cription filled. Many take acription to a pharmacy andver that their Part D insurancedoes not cover the medicineneed.

Thats mainly because there areany drug plansmore thanand neither patients nor theirrs have time to sort through all

em. And even after patients pickn, they may discover that after amonths the plan no longer coversmedicine they need. Insurance

anies can drop or add medicinescover, leaving patients scram-to find another plan.

art D needs to be much simpler,nalysts. With the amount ofey we are putting into this

program, people in Medicare and theAmerican taxpayer should be gettingfar better health care, said RobertHayes, president of the MedicareRights Center, a consumer advocacygroup in New York.

Analysts say information is notreadily available to doctors; so theycant help patients decide whichplan to choose. Nearly 20 percent ofthe doctors surveyed said somepatients were unable to get aprescription filled because of Part Dcomplications and bureaucraticblunders. That resulted in seriousmedical consequences for theirpatients, said the doctors.

Complications arise in partbecause every Part D insurancecompany has its own list of drugs itwill cover (called formularies).Some companies cover the brandname version of a drug; others coveronly the generic. Some require ahigh copayment for a certain drug;others do not. And there arenumerous other things a patientmust try to figure out.

Part D needs a lot of simplifica-tion, say Hayes and other analysts.

et to the Right Hospitalou or someone in your family haseart attack or another seriouscal problem, try to get to atal capable of dealing with theem, not just any hospital.any hospitals do not have thement, doctors or drugs to handles like stroke, serious heart attackgh-risk birth. Researchers ath Grades and other groups sayhould plan ahead because yout have trouble convincing anlance driver to take you to the

hospital you need.Ambulances will usually takeyou to the nearest hospital. Youmight need a helicopter to get to theright one, especially if you live in arural area. You also want treatmentby an experienced doctor who hasdone hundreds of the procedures youneed.

To find such hospitals anddoctors, see HealthGrades.com;J o i n t C o m m i s s i o n . o r g ;HospitalCompare.hhs.gov.

anadas Health Systemnada spends much less per personn health care than the United, but the results are just as good,ding to a research report in the

cal journal Open Medicine.esearchers said Canada, which government-run health care

m, spends about $3,000 per personar. The United States spends0 per person each year under its

m run by private insurance.he researchers said Canadas

system saves money by havinggovernment control of prescriptiondrug prices and administrative costsavings that arent possible under theU.S. system.

The study did not deal with delayssome Canadians experience inreceiving health care, which otherstudies have cited. But researcherssaid, in many cases, the outcomes for

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he reason congressmen try soto get re-elected is that they

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ts in the front row laughed, andeacher smiled.e gave her away in marriage, and

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man climbed to the top ofnt Sinai and asked the Lord,at does a million years mean toA minute.What does a million dollars meanu?

is nothing to be gained by trying toexplain how this error occurred.

We inadvertently left out the wordsheep in the following sentence:Woodrow Wilsons wife grazed onthe front lawn of the White House.

In yesterdays Food Section, aninaccurate number of jalapeno

peppers was given for JeanetteCrowleys southwestern chicken saladrecipe. The recipe calls for 2, not 21,jalapeno peppers.

From Mark Twain:When angry, count to 100. When

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Correction to the story about theDeep Relaxation developmentprogram: The program will includemeditation, not medication.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration (FDA) will require

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The FDA requirements will not beeffective for some time, however.Large supplement manufacturers haveat least a year to comply; small manu-facturers have up to three years.

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ributions. The thought of anded down market, just when Ito retire, is just too scary. Why

ettle for a lower return and justmore money? What do you

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Many people, for instance,wildly overconfident in the

1990s as the stock market

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Others get talked into taking riskbecause its the only way they can

hope to have the income they wantin retirement. Rather than set moremodest spending goals, they asktheir money to work harder. Theinvestment business encourages thiskind of thinking because the fees arehigher.

You, however, could max outyour 401(k) and invest in Treasurysas you suggest. The one flaw in yourapproach is that even Treasurys haveriskinterest rate risk.

You can overcome that when you

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