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wo of my favorite books areJohn Fielders Best ofrado and his Colorado: Lostes and Forgotten Words.hough published several years

they are still available andrent from most of Fielders

ks because they contain notgreat photographs but also

ments from early writers whoed Colorado and more recentments from people who wantrotect the states naturalty.ielder quoted Presidentdore Roosevelt on observinguntain valley in springtime:The green of the valley was a

ght to the eye. Bird songsded on every side, from thes and from the trees andes beside the brooks...the airsweet with the springtimeh of many budding things.e also quoted poet Waltman, who visited Coloradoobserved ...the chasm, thee, the crystal mountainm...the fantastic forms bathedansparent browns, faint redsgrays, towering sometimes asand feet high...mixing withlouds with only their outlines,d in misty lilac.

Writer Hal Borland described ament in his childhood onrados eastern plains when hehis father stopped to appre-the beauty around them:

Father drew up the horses for aent and just sat and looked...I

ed at him, and I looked againe distance, and I felt a kind of

inside myself, and a sense ofthat made me not want to sayrd. It was so big, so vast, soso wonderful.oth of these books cover thee state, not just the mountains,reveal the beauty of placesy visitors never seedeepen canyons on the westerne; vast prairie vistas on thern plains.these books, Fielder wanted

o more than just present

res. He wanted to help peopleze how fragile Colorados

natural environment is and howimportant it is to protect the lostplaces where we can go to findbeauty, peace and solitude.

Thats why he said, In todaysage of catastrophes, ocean oilspills, destruction of the ozonelayer...a look back in time gener-ates questions we should ask

ourselves. Toward what end are wetaking our civilization?And thats why he quotes

people like former ColoradoGovernor Dick Lamm, who said,There must be lost places formankind to keep its sanity. Wemust have ways to get away...forrenewal, for rejuvenation and forworship.

Fielder knows that a picture isnot worth a thousand words. Inthese books, he uses words to

enhance his pictures and give themmeaning. He recalled remarks

from one of Americas greatconservationists, Stewart Udall:

There are today a few wilder-ness reaches on the NorthAmerican continentin Alaska, inCanada and in places of the RockyMountainswhere the earlymorning mantle of primevalAmerica can be seen in its pristine

glory...where one can gaze withwonder on the land as it was whenthe Indians first came.

These books combine powerfulphotographic images withinspiring words and leave us with agreater appreciation of the placewhere we live.________________COVER PICTURE: Fielders

photo of the Lowry Pueblo insouthwestern Colorado near thetown of Cortez, from the book

John Fielders Best ofColorado.

ost Places, Forgotten Words

Fielders photo of Rifle Falls near the western Colorado town of

Rifle, from the book John Fielders Best of Colorado.


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arly Ranger in RockyMountain Natl Parkll Lambdin

k Moomaw, born in 1892, wase of the early rangers in Rockyntain National Park, and his life

ull of adventure.e was one of the first people to the sheer east face of 14,255-Longs Peak. He rescued lostle and saved injured animals,red poachers, faced death fromr blizzards, fought forest firesealt with people who did stranges in the mountains.is story was told inollections of a Rocky Mountainer, edited by Lulie and Jack

on, published by the YMCA ofockies in Estes Park.

ost of the book was Moomawswriting, his recollections of

orous and unusual events thatred during his long career as ar in the Park. The editors did aob of collecting pictures and

mation.hey said Jack was born in a sod

house in Nebraska, and his parentsbrought him by covered wagon toLongmont in 1893. At age 13, he ranaway from home and worked as acowboy from Mexico to Wyoming.

He graduated from high school atage 23 and married Lila Weese fromLyons, the small town west ofLongmont. Her father was wealthyand left Lila enough money for herand Jack to buy a small farm.

But Jack liked climbing mountains,not farming, and he spent most of histime then guiding tourists up the highpeaks around Rocky Mountain NationalPark, which was established in 1915.

In 1923, Jack became one of theParks first rangers. In those days, the job required great physical stamina.

Jack was often sent to rescue peoplein extreme weather and underdangerous conditions.

But he loved it. He especiallyliked the opportunity to search forartifacts of Stone Age people who hadbeen in the Park thousands of yearsago. He became a well known

Jack Moomaw as a young man. Photo from the Melton

amateur archaeologist, writing articlesand amassing a huge collection of

spear points and ancient tools, somedating back more than 10,000 years.

Jack was not a model of decorum,however. When young, he bootleggedwhiskey, chased women and some-times drank too much.

Although he was promoted andhonored for exemplary service, hiscarefree behavior may have kept himfrom becoming superintendent of thePark, said the book editors. He retiredin 1945 after 23 years of service.

Then tragedy struck. child, his 23-year-old da

of a cerebral hemorrhagand his wife were on a cand couldnt be found. Ththat had given him so mualso caused him great pain

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ors Note: Greeley historianl E. Johnson wrote thewing story years ago.)

azel Johnson

eeley pioneer BenjaminEaton was one of the firsters in northern Colorado. Heater a territorial legislator andrly governor.aton came to Colorado in l858ng to strike it rich in the golds. But like many others, he

overed the odds were againstng rich that way.

fter three years, he left thefields and settled on the

he la Poudre River betweeneley and Fort Collins. Hened briefly to Ohio in l863e he married Rebeccah Hill.

With his new bride, he cameto his cabin on the Poudre

where he plowed the land and builtan irrigation ditch. During thel860s, he sold his crops to mining

camps west of Denver.In l870 he helped the UnionColonists select the site that becamethe town of Greeley. When NathanMeeker and others were inColorado looking for a site, Eatonsuggested they settle along thefertile land where the Poudre andPlatte rivers come together. He alsotold the colonists he would contractto build irrigation ditches for them.

Thus it was mainly Ben Eatonwho was responsible for Greeley

being located where it is. He laterowned much land in the area andbecame a major developer of irri-gation projects.

These made him far wealthierthan gold mining probably everwould have. In fact, Eaton wastypical of many Colorado pioneers,

The Origin ofGreeley in 1870

who discovered they could make abetter life by farming than mining.

Eaton was elected governor inl884, four years after he built a

mansion in Greeley. Thouse is gone, the acments of pioneers likenot forgotten.

Benjamin Eatons home in Greeley. Hazel Johnson Coll


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ors Note: This story aboutFeather Lakes pioneers wasen years ago by Evadenenson, author of the bookd Feather Lakes: The FirstYears.

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John Hardin had settled first nearLaporte in 1864. His wife diedthat summer.

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but already the timber in the moun-tains was needed by newly arrivingsettlers.

Hardin built his cabin on SouthLone Pine Creek in 1871. Hebegan ranching and haulinglumber. His pretty daughtersattracted other settlers. The oldest,Frances, married Henry Smith andsettled in a cabin nearby.

The first school house for theRed Feather area was built onHardins ranch. The school censusfor many years was recorded in hisfirm hand, and right up to his deathin 1911 at age 85, he epitomizedthe American pioneer, carrying hisage lightly and doing a mans workany day of his life.

His daughter Amandas remi-niscences are filled with detailsabout life in the mountains in the

1870s. It took her father four daysto make the trip down and backfrom LaPorte with poles and houselogs he cut for people in the valley.

Amanda went to her first danceat age 14 on July 4, 1876, at theForks Hotel in Livermore. Theaffair, she thought, was not muchof a celebration...only three or fourfamilies there.

She loved helping her sister andrecalled:

Many are the happy hours I

spent in sisters little cabin, alonewith her and the children, when

my brother-in-law whauling timber. We woeach other until late at of us would read aloudother knitted stockings fdren.

The first trails in thewere opened by tie haccontractors building thesouthern Wyoming afteWar. Isaac Coe and Lhad been supplying tPacific Railroad with pine for ties since the lat

Near Hardins pladwelling claimed by GeIt was probably a sumfor West was a Greenessman and had a there. His father, Henryone of Greeleys first se

Greeley was hot in s

at that time was withoutcontemporary wrote scaDont go to Greel

graveyard in which aheaps of bright hoplocated...on a barren, san

Henry West tookElkhorn House southeHardin ranch (near Reand ran it for several ypopular hotel servedeling public, and it known to tie hacks

cattlemen and vacationburned in 1890.


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Property Tax for RetireesProperty Taxes in Colorado aretoo high. This is one thing I

often, especially from retirees.supported the Senior Homestead

mption, a measure voters passed00. The exemption gives retireesemption of 50 percent of the first,000 in value of their home ifhave lived in that home for 10or more.

While the exemption wasnded for three years during thet recession, it is back in effect.while it saves retirees about $70on in taxes each year, it has oneroblem, in my view. If you sellhome, you lose your exemption.any retirees do sell their home

ove into a smaller one. So whilemay be forced to downsize your

e to save money, your tax billkely go up. This is not fair.is also not fair that this could

en to a person who has lived hise life in Colorado, while anotherfying retiree could have moved10 years ago. The lifelong resi-does not get the exemption,the newer resident does.couple of years ago, I tried to

his inequity by extending themption to any retiree who has

in Colorado for 10 years orbut the bill was defeated. Thisam again introducing a referred

ure to fix this problem. My billd allow one move within a ten

year period. The bill will also allowretirees to receive an exemption ifthey are the widow of a disabledveteran or if their home was destroyedby natural disaster.

I have bipartisan support for thismeasure and will work to lessen theburden of property taxes onColorados retirees and to make thistax relief more fair.

There are some other ways retireescan save on their property taxes. Oneis the Property Tax Deferral Programfor the Elderly and Disabled adminis-tered by the Colorado State Treasurer.In this program, the state pays yourproperty tax and places a lien againstyour property for the amount of thetax plus interest. When your propertyis sold, the state is repaid for the taxes

it paid for you. You must be 65 yearsor older to qualify.Larimer County also runs a Senior

Citizens Property Tax Work-offprogram where you can worktemporarily for Larimer County tohave your earnings pay off part ofyour property tax bill.

You can get more information onthese from the Larimer CountyTreasurers office at (970) 498-7020or by stopping by the Larimer CountyCourthouse.________________You can email Sen. Johnson at

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ggy Hunt

866 Nelson Story made the firstor cattle drive across Wyominghe brought over 1,000 cows upTexas to the gold camps in

ana.e realized that a cow purchased5 in Texas would sell for $50 inana where miners were hungry

eef. So he hired 27 cowboys andd north with the herd.t Fort Laramie in eastern Wyoming,officials tried to buy the herd, but

didnt want to pay Storys price. Heht extra guns and ammunition atLaramie because he thought heencounter Indians farther north.

ure enough, a few days later a bandoux stole some of the cattle andpeded the rest. Storys cowboysged to round up the stampeded

and then they set out after thens. They found them, shot some ofand got the cows back.

t Fort Phil Kearny north of whatbecame Casper, the army told Storyuld not go farther because of then threat. He was ordered to camphis herd a couple of miles away

from the fort. One morning, the soldierswoke up to find that Story had taken the

cattle north in the middle of the night.He made it to Montana, thus estab-

lishing the cattle industry in that area.Some say the little town of Story,Wyoming, near Sheridan, was namedfor Nelson Story.

Cattlemen discovered that skinnyTexas cattle would fatten rapidly on

Cattle Drives in Frontier Wyomin

the rich grasslands of the north. By1883 up to 200,000 head of cattle a

year were driven across the trails toWyoming and Montana. A typical herdconsisted of about 2,000 cows with adozen cowboys. Some of the largerherds consisted of 15,000 cattle.

One man said of the cowboys:They had very little grub, and they

usually ran out of that and lived on

straight beef. They had ofour horses to the man, m

sore backs. They had no teand damn few slickers.

The diet of most cownot have been beef unless of food. It was biscuits,beansand more beans.

Herds were often Ogallala, Nebraska, and tCheyenne. Rancher Edgremembered what Ogallalathose days:

saloons, dance gambling jointslined up railway track and formed th

Ogallala could boast. Thpacked with wild and whaired and bearded, rentlusting and thirstybrushfrom the trail outfits for a fr

Bronson said while heof the saloons, a man nThompson walked througpulled a gun and shot owner, Jim Tucker.

Tucker fell, and Thomphe was dead. But he was only shot in the hand. Tuca shotgun from behind theoutside where he spotted

walking just a few feet awaBronson said Tucker

gun across the stump of left hand and emptied intoat about six paces, a tnumber-four buckshot thacould assimilate.

Cheyenne, because ofbecame a major destinatioping point for cattle drivewhile, it was as wild as Og

But things changed afdevastating winter of 1887of the cattle in Wyoming a

froze to death. Big investoand the great cattle boom w

A Wyoming cow camp in the 1800s. Wyoming History Museum.


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give the other spouse the legal right

and power to step forward and handle

matters for both. I would recommend

having four signed comprehensive

(including medical), unconditional

durable powers set up with several

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I feel that the maker should main-tain possession of all executed durable

powers of attorney but let the agents

know where the originals

The foregoing will be

for your New Years esta

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state Planning Tips For The New Yeon Rutz, Attorney

Correspondent

o you have any estate planning

utions for the new year?

. If you do not have a Will, get

For $200 or less, the Will desig-

who has the legal authority to bearge to settle things and identi-

who inherits.

you have a Will, but have not

d at it in the last two years, do

Better yet, do so with your

ey. Most lawyers will not charge

uch a review. It is amazing how

little things need to be adjusted.

you have a Living Trust, you

ld see an attorney every few

. It is critical to look at your

to be certain that all assets are

in the trust and that the benefi-

designations have been properly

inated with the trust.

eview your asset list, or if you

ot have one, make one. That

ment will be the check list (the

map) that the personal represen-

e will use as guidance to be

certain that all assets are identified

and handled. The list should include

the identification and the location of

the various assets and documents and

also identify key people to contact,

such as the CPA, lawyer, etc.

Consolidate important papers and

original documents in one placewhere they will not only be safe but

where the personal representative can

easily locate them. As long as one of

the people on a bank box signature

card is alive, the box will not be

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Everything should be held in joint

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but the proceeds flow elsewhere

because of different beneficiary desig-

nations, thereby causing the overall

estate distribution goals not to be met.

Finally, everyone should have

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anuary 2008 The Senior Voice

Early Cheyenne

ount Sinai Synagogue inCheyenne was recently honored

an historic marker dedicated onte of the first permanent Jewish

gogue in Wyoming.he original Synagogue was built15 by members of the Jewish

munity whose roots were putin Cheyenne when immigrantsEurope came to the frontier

They arrived with the Unionc Railroad in 1867.

he immigrants became mainlyessful merchants . A youngter from the Chicago Tribunewas sent to Cheyenne to report

e emerging city wrote of beinght in a snow bank in town duringible blizzard and being draggedfety by a Jew who owned aand put my frozen body betweenBuffalo skins he was selling and

ed me out.enry Altman was a displaced

person who came to Cheyenne andopened a store in 1870. He served on

the Cheyenne City Council, CheyenneFrontier Days Committee and was apioneer in developing Cheyennes citypark system. Max Idleman purchasedthe first liquor license issued in theState of Wyoming. He built a brickmansion featuring fine importedmarble and rare wood. The IdlemanBuilding in downtown Cheyenne isanother monument to this intrepidimmigrant.

Between 1930 and 1950, half ofthe towns merchants were Jewish.Maxi Meyer had a small hat shop on

Carey Avenue where he sold Stetsonhats. In 1925 he designed a hat forhis friend Tim McCoy. It had a sixinch brim and a nine inch crown.

The Stetson Company had to makespecial blocks to form the hat. It cost$65 and it was soon worn by actors,cowboy contestants and politicians.

They all ordered the ten-gallon hatfrom Max Meyer, and his store

became the Stetson Hat headquartersof the world.

Todd Jewelers and ChristensonJewelry Store were offspring ofpioneer merchants. So were B. DavisFurniture Store and Peoples SportingGoods. Martin Bernstein was a clas-sical violinist who entertained all

kinds of social groups.Roslyne Kaufman, a

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Electronic Medical Recoerrors, more effective lower costs and greater pfaction for the 5 millioreceiving treatment at VAJust a few years ago, thohad a reputation of giving worst treatment in Americ

Without electronic rectests at hospitals are repe

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Died with Boots on, Bullets Flyineggy Hunt

he late 1800s at Hot Sulphurrings, south of Walden andmboat Springs, young Charlieon worked as a ranch hand andmed of becoming a gunslinger.

e got his wish, but it cost himfe.e was about 20 years old whenegan swaggering into townsng a .45-caliber six-gun on his

hip, getting drunk and threateningthe life of anyone who crossed him.He liked to be called Texas Charlie.

People said he was a good shotwith the pistol but a bad-temperedpunk who was asked to leave severaltowns. In 1883, he wandered into

Hot Sulphur Springs one day andattacked a miner named W.L.Veatch.

Charlie pistol whipped him andthreatened to kill him. Veatch finally

got away and staggered into Calvin

Kinneys office, the justice of thepeace.Veatchs head was a bloody mess

from the beating, and he was in arage. He asked Kinney for a gun sohe could kill Charlie.

Kinney talked him into calmingdown and swearing out a warrant forCharlies arrest. As they wereworking on the warrant, Charlieburst through the door, saw whatwas happening and shouted that hewould kill anyone who attempted toarrest him.

He grabbed the warrant fromKinney, tore it up and left town. Afew days later, another warrant wasprepared and so were the towns-people.

Charlie rode into town, got offhis horse and started walking past avacant building. Suddenly, a gunshotrang out and a bullet whizzed past.

Charlie drew his pistol andlooked for the gunman, but no one

was in sight. Another sh

his right hand and knockaway.He picked up the gu

left hand and stood tremanger and fear, still unwhere the shots had come

He cussed and screagunmen, his voice full ofhe realized what was hap

The townsmen wewaiting for him. He was and there was no way ou

His mind ran wildflashing like lightning: Im a gunman...but Im gIm young and...

His thought never fdozen rifles and shotsimultaneously, slamminbody to the ground.

Newspapers later toland records showed that arrested for Charlies deathe townsmen involvedidentified.

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He Made Skiing aSport in Colorado

eggy Hunt

amboat Springs has producedore Olympic skiers than any

r town in the United States,that legacy began in 1913n a young Norwegian skiered Carl Howelsen arrived.owelsen had won numerousg events in his homeland of

way before he came to theand began working as a

layer in Denver. In 1913, heattending a small skiing eventot Sulphur Springs northwestenver when a young woman,

orie Perry, told him aboutmboat.Youll find more snow andr skiing conditions there thanot Sulphur Springs, she said.

Marjorie knew what she wasng about. The daughter of athy businessman who owned

a coal mine in Oak Creek south ofSteamboat, Marjorie was one ofthe early skiers in Coloradoyearsbefore skiing became a popularsport here.

Howelsen went to Steamboatthat winter, cut a few trees andmade a small ski jump. The localpeople were so enthusiastic abouthis ability to jump and makeskiing fun that he returned thenext year, bought some land, builta bigger jump and startedSteamboats first Winter SkiCarnival.

The local people had used

homemade skis merely as a way toget around in winter, and they hadnot realized how much fun skiingcould beor considered it as acompetitive sportuntil Howelsenshowed them.

He organized cross-country andjumping events, and ran them for

eight years in Steamboat. He builtan excellent jump on what becameknown as Howelsen Hill, whereseveral world-record jumps weremade. Howelsen Hill is still usedtoday, just across the Yampa Riverin downtown Steamboat.

In 1921, Howelsen to Norway, married areturn to Steamboat. Bhe had helped make skiisport in Colorado and lacareers of some earlyskiers.

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Laurel and Hardyll Lambdin

urel and Hardy were one ofmericas best loved comedyin the 1920s and 1930s.

an Laurel (the skinny one) wasin England in 1890. His father

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able, but I can only play statues.an came to the United States in

with a vaudeville troupe headeded Karno, who was also Charlielins mentor. Stan made his firste in 1917, and he was involved films not only as an actor buts a writer and director.e had little patience with criticsattempted to find social or polit-

meaning in the Lauren and HardyThey think deep down that we

ome kind of bloody message inlms, he said. They are wrong.

were just trying to make people.

is sense of humor remained evenn his career when the movie

racts ran out and Laurel andy films were seen only as TVs. One day in a store, a clerkht he recognized Stan:

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Oliver Hardy, left, and Stan Laurel. Maturity News Se

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What made them so popular? Agood answer came from biographerRandy Skretvedt, author of the bookLaurel and Hardy: The MagicBehind the Movies.

Stan and Ollie are believable,human characters, said Skretvedt.Their comedy comes out of theirpersonalities, not from jokes. They arecloser to real people than the othergreat clowns.

The characters they portrayed,added Skretvedt, want to fit into theworld, but they are too innocent. Theyare as we were, before we werecorrupted. We all start out as trusting,guileless, optimistic people. Somehow

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Hardy had a stroke idied the next year. Lacomfortably in Californiaeight years, surroundedlike Danny Kaye, Peter Dick Cavett.

Laurel was awarded 1961. He was grateful fosaying he only wished iwhen Hardy could have sh


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Part of the problem stems from theincreased use of CT scans in recent

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the night with Irish miners. The wild

ride through the mountains to Cripple

Creek took nine hours, and she often

recounted it as the most wonderful

ride of her life.

It was a bright moonlight night,

and the carriage crossed creeks and

climbed cliffsides along the edge of

dark precipices.In Cripple Creek, a woman from

County Mayo welcomed Maude to

her small wooden house and gave her

a breakfast of bacon and eggs and a

cup of Irish breakfast tea strong

enough for a cat to walk on.

Maude went into the mines and

gave the men the latest news from

Ireland. When the shift changed, she

climbed aboard a wagon and spoke of

Irelands opportunity to break free of

A Wild Irish Rosen Early Coloradors Note: Wyoming and

rado historian Margaret

ourn wrote the following story

ago.

argaret Laybourn

We have come to capture MissGonne, cried three bois-s miners from Cripple Creek as

surrounded the beautiful young

an leaving the stage of a Denver

er near midnight on November

897.

aude Gonne was an Irish patriot

came to Colorado over a century

She was 31 years old and had

finished a speech in Denver

ting a capacity crowd to muster

ort for Irish independence and

ner amnesty.

he six-foot-tall beauty had come

Ireland to the United States in

terest of Irish political prisoners

were being held and tortured in

English prisons. Her remarks appar-

ently fired up the miners to take Miss

Gonne back with them to Cripple

Creek so the Irish there might see this

wild Irish rose for themselves.Earlier in the evening, Colorado

Governor Adams had introduced

Maude Gonne as the Irish Joan of

Arc, saying, She has not come in

glittering armor of steel but with a

tongue of eloquence and the witchery

of a beautiful woman.

In a voice eloquent with sweet-

ness and clarity, she began, Deep in

the heart of the Celt is a wild love of

liberty which the Saxon cannot

understand. Centuries may pass, but

as long as there is one Irishman

living, there will be a struggle to

break the chains that shackle us to

England.

When she finished her speech, the

audience went wild with applause.

Ladies in the theater flung their

flowers to her, and gentlemen near the

front leaped onto the stage to take her

hand.

The Denver Post reported, The

maid of Erin was clad in a closely

fitting broad-cloth dress, which set off

her long, lithe figure to advantage.

The reporter was struck more withher appearance than her message, and

that was not surprising, for Maude

Gonne was one of the great beauties

of the Victorian age. In Ireland, poet

William Butler Yeats fell under the

spell of her beauty and immortalized

her in his poetry. He wrote of their

first meeting, I had never thought to

see in a living woman so great

beauty.

Born into the aristocratic Cook

family, she was part of the industrial

class that ruled Britain in the 19th

century. She was disowned by herfamily when she chose to champion

the Irish peasantry in their battle with

British rule.

During Queen Victorias reign

alone, the population of Ireland was

reduced from 8.5 million to 4 million,

and one million of those starved to

death. Maude Gonne had seen Irish

tenants evicted from their homes and

left to freeze, and she had never

forgotten it.

Little wonder that this unconven-

tional woman would forego supperwith Denvers finest to ride off into

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Englands grasp.

When she appealed t

otism of those poor mi

from the Emerald Isle, th

electric. The lads, most o

beyond belief, chipped in

oners at home.

Maudes Colorado

ended with another excitindown the mountain.

recalled:

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whole American tour in t

villages. In their hard, ex

those people never forgot

Maude Gonne devote

life to the cause of Irish

ence. She lived to

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The Battle ofBeecher Island

ll Lambdin

868 the Battle of Beecher Island

urred on the plains east of

ley, near the present town of, when 50 soldiers were attacked

everal hundred Cheyenne

ors.

19-year-old boy, Jack Stillwell,

considered one of the heroes of

attle.

aj. George Forsyth brought the

ers to the area in an attempt to

ndian raids against settlers. Most

e troops were hand-picked,

ned frontiersmen experienced in

n warfarebuffalo hunters, trap-

and mountain men.

ne observer described them asd-bitten fighters...dressed in

kin and nondescript uniforms

most careless, irresponsible,

-riding, straight-shooting

any of scapegoats that ever set

nder the United States flag.

hey didnt expect to encounter

a large band of warriors when

one shouted Indians! and the

ie filled with screaming

ennes thundering toward them.

orsyth led his men to a sand bar

e middle of the Arikaree River,

ed near the present town of

. On this sand bar, the handful of

managed to hold off the attack

ne bloody days, shooting from

d their fallen horses, which they

te to avoid starvation.

alf of Forsyths men were killed

ounded, including Lt. Frederick

her, for whom the battle was

d.

n the first night, Forsyth decided

one had to try to sneak through

ndians and reach Fort Wallace

t 100 miles away. Young Jackwell and an old trapper named

y Trudeau volunteered.

hroughout the night, Stillwell

Trudeau crawled on their hands

knees along the river bank.

g the day, they hid in tall weeds,

motionless in the hot, blistering

uring one day, they had to lie

to a rotting buffalo carcass. On

er, a rattlesnake crawled toward

They dared not move. As the

e was about to strike, Stillwell

obacco juice at it. Luckily thatd the rattler away.

Stillwell and Trudeau finally

reached Fort Wallace. The few

survivors at Beecher Island were

saved, and they honored Stillwells

heroic effortthough most historiansforgot him.

Stillwell later studied law and

became a judge in Texas. He also

came to know George Armstrong

Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and other

frontiersmen.

The commander at the battle, Maj.

George Forsyth, later wrote about it

and the bravery of his men:

Howard Morton lost one of his

eyes by a bullet that lodged just

behind it, but wrapped a handkerchief

around his head and fought

on...Harrington, with an arrow point

lodged squarely in his frontal bone,

never ceased to bear his full share in

the fray...

We were out of food...the meat

cut from the dead mules and horses

had become putrid, and although we

boiled it and sprinkled gunpowder

upon it, it was not palatable. One of

the scouts succeeded in shooting a

little coyote...the head was boiled

three successive times to extract the

last shred of nutriment it contained...

After six days, Forsyth told the

soldiers who were not wounded they

might make a run for it and escape.

He said:

Those of us who were wounded

must take our chances. If relief came

in time, well and good. If not, we

were soldiers and knew how to meet

our fate.

For a few seconds, there was a

dead silence, and then rose a hoarse

cry of Never! Never! Well stand by

you!

A few years later, Forsyth met one

of the Indians from the battle andasked him how many warriors were

killed:

The chief held up his two hands

seven times together, and then one

hand singly, which the interpreter told

me signified 75...Just as he started to

go, he stopped and spoke to the inter-

preter again. He wishes to know

whether you did not get enough of it.

Tell him yes, all I wanted, was

my reply. How about himself?...He

gave a grim, half-humorous look and

then, unfolding his blanket and

opening the breast of his buckskinshirt, pointed to where a bullet had

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Other events at the libraries

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An early artists depiction of the battle. Colorado Historicaevidently gone through his lungs. (He)

nodded, closed his shirt, wrapped his

blanket around him, turned and

stalked quietly from the tent.

Forsyth was promoted

general before retiring

historical marker still stan

Beecher Island battle site.


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