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Foreclosure is one of the mostfeared words any family canhear. Losing a home is a tragedy we allwant to avoid.

Foreclosures in Colorado have

doubled since 2003. Some say Colorado

ranks number one in the nation in fore-

closures, with Weld County in northern

Colorado and Adams County in the

Denver area leading the way in our

state.

How did we get into this mess?

There isnt a single answer, but one key

is that credit is easier to get, and many

Americans are unfortunately finding

themselves deeper and deeper in

consumer debt.

While it isnt the governments job totell us how to spend or invest our money,

many of us are concerned about the fore-

closure epidemic in our state and our

legitimate role in responding to it.

Mortgage fraud is a part of the

problem, and the legislature acted deci-

sively last session to address this aspect.

Working with Attorney General John

Suthers, we passed the F

Fraud Prevention Act, wh

mortgage brokers doing Colorado to be licensed w

Before this law passed, we

only two states that did

brokers to register. Severa

were passed for the purpo

lating the mortgage broker i

Last year, we created t

Foreclosure Hotline to give

advice. Anyone can call the

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Many foreclosures in

cases where the mortgag

exceeds half of the fam

Experts recommend it not ex

Seven in 10 foreclosurewere no down payment loan

adjustable rate loans, which

at first but may have m

payments later that fam

afford.

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You can call Sen. Steve Joh

Collins at 223-8045.

Home Foreclosur

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Dr. William Lambdin, P

ll Lambdin

mbing Longs Peak near Estes

ark is one of the great outdoor

ntures in Colorado, and much

y is associated with this magnif-

mountain.

efore Major Stephen Longsdition arrived in 1820, Indians

climbed the peak. Some early

orers said Arapahoes trapped

s on its summit.

ajor Long did not climb it,

h the peak is named for him. He

wed the Platte River south along

ados front range to Pikes Peak,

vered in 1806 by Lt. Zebulon

he first known pioneers to climb

s were John Wesley Powell and

am Byers in 1868.

owell was the well knownrer of the Grand Canyon. Byers

editor of Denvers Rocky

ntain News, then an infant news-

. They found a route up the west

of Longs above Grand Lake.

ll had lost his right arm in the

War and made this ascent with

one arm.

he sheer east-facing diamond is

fficult that it was not climbed

1960 by two professional

bers, Bob Camps and David

ck. In 1978, Bill Forrest made

rst solo diamond climb with no, which must have been one of

ariest ascents made on Longs.

oday thousands of people climb

mountain every summer, of all

from 8 to 80. A good trail

ring no technical climbing skills

ailable. Its about a 13-hour hike

dtrip.

ou gain nearly 5,000 feet from

ailhead to the lofty 14,255-foot

mit of Longs. The mountain is the

ernmost peak over 14,000 feet in

ntire Rocky Mountain range.

rofessional climbers use the

ond route up the sheer east face

ngs, considered by many to be

most difficult climb in Colorado.

mateurs are warned to take the

r route.

early 50 people have died

bing Longs over the years,

y from taking a wrong route,

careless or getting caught in a

en storm.

ne of the early female climbers

sabella Bird, an English adven-

s who vividly described herience in 1873.

She wrote of wild fantastic views

opening continuallya recurrence of

many surprises. The air is keener and

purer with every mile...I would not

exchange my memories of its perfect

beauty and extraordinary sublimity for

any other experience of moun-

taineering in any other part of the

world.

Isabellas guide was a trapper

called Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent.

She said the last part of the ascent was

so demanding that Jim dragged me

up like a bale of goods, by sheer force

of muscle.

Isabella described her adventure in

letters to her sister and in a book

called A Ladys Life in the Rocky

Mountains. Some people speculated

about a romance between her and Jim

Nugent.

She described him as very hand-

some, except for one side of his face

that had been disfigured when he was

mauled by a bear. His manner was

that of a chivalrous gentleman, hisaccent refined and his language easy

and elegant.

A man such as that would have

been a rare find among the rough trap-

pers and pioneers in the mountains at

that time. Isabella was obviously

attracted to Jims mysterious charms.

But he was a mountain man,

accustomed to surviving in a violent

place. That had shaped his character

and frightened Isabella.

Today many people feel the way

Isabella Bird did about Longs Peak

and would not exchange their memo-

ries of climbing it for any other

experience.

The serenity at its summit,

however, can change quickly because

of sudden storms that appear out of

nowhere. Those storms have proved

devastating for some climbers.

The mood of the mountain is like

that of Rocky Mountain Jimcalm

and charming one minute, violent and

dangerous the next.

________________

COVER PICTURE: Longs Peak.Senior Voice photo.

irst Longs Peak Climbers

Many people have died climbing Longs peak. Senior Voice photo.


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Frontier Days

ree drenching cloudburstslmost flooded the Cheyennetier Days arena this past Julyarely dampened the spirits of

ontestants who wallowed in thevying for the $1 million purse,ggest in the rodeos history.or 111 years, through reces-, depressions, wars and everyof weather, the rodeo has nevered a performance. The celebra-was originally conceived as ater event for Cheyenne whenrado was holding its harvest

vals like Potato Day in Greeley,e Day in Ft. Collins, and thepkin Pie Festival in Windsor.nce nothing grew on the wind-t plains surrounding Cheyenne,ity fathers hit on the idea of ao celebrating the cattle culture.boys were invited to come to

town and compete in bronc busting,steer wrestling and wild horse racing.

The first year of the rodeo couldhave been its last. Wild horses werefound about 40 miles fromCheyenne and herded into a corral atthe park. They were milling aroundnervous and excited.

A cowboy tried to rope one, andthey stampeded. They broke out ofthe corral, ran up the race track,veered into the bleachers and brokethrough them. There was screamingand panic in the crowd, but no one

was hurt.The second year was also nearly adisaster. Rain came down in torrentsfor over an hour, and water was sixinches deep on the race track. Thecowboys thought it was toodangerous to ride in the mud andwanted to postpone the show.

Early wild horse race at Frontier Days. Wyoming History

Clarence Richardson, head of the racecommittee, found a young woman,

Miss Bertha Kaspernick, who hadentered the bronc busting contest andasked her to do a demonstration ridein front of the grandstand.

She accepted the challenge androde one of the worst broncos untilhe went over backwards in the mud.She deftly slid off him andremounted as he regained his

footing; then she rode himThe crowd went

excitement, and she scowboys into going ahewild horse race. It waClarence cast the dye fowhen he shouted triuCome hell or high-watewill go on!

And so it has for 111 Cheyenne.

By Scott BurnsFinancial Writer

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additional monthly charge forMedicare coverage for this year.

Had I known of the change inMedicare charges, I would have

considered the added Medicarecharge in my tax planning.A: Many people have been

surprised by the premium increase,but its here and its real. While themonthly premium for most people(singles with income under $80,000and couples with income under$160,000) is $93.50 for this year, itwill go as high as $162.10 for singleswith income above $200,000 andcouples with income above $400,000.

Somehow, I dont see a massprotest movement based on this

since the increase is modest relativeto income, and most retirees will

pay the base amount.This is the third

government has made tosome of the benefits poboth parties have promseeking election. The fiinitial taxation of Socibenefits during the Reaistration. The secondincrease in taxation Security benefits during administration. I thinexpect more weaseling ofrom politicians of bo

more boomers retire.Many people who awill get snagged fMedicare premiums bpremiums are basedreported income, not you2007. Fortunately, it is dispute your increase. Yall the basic informatiowww.ssa.gov/pubs/10162________________Scott Burns is an MITand longtime financial

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T

he federal government has been

on a century long growth spurtand is poised to rapidly outgrow the

ability of our children and grandchil-

dren to afford it.

Just a century ago, federal

spending equaled 2.8 percent of our

entire gross domestic product. Today,

that figure is fast approaching 20

percent.

Only 40 percent of the $2.7 trillion

that the government will spend this

year is discretionary funding used for

traditional government functions such

as education, roads and nationaldefense.

The remaining 60 percent consists

almost entirely of entitlement

spending, including Social Security,

Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment

payments and food stamps. Unlike

annual discretionary spending, entitle-

ment spending operates on autopilot

and does not require action from

Congress.

Ironically, it is that same

Congressional inaction that is threat-

ening the long-term sustainability ofthese programs due to the well-known

fact that the autopilot is set on an

unsustainable course.

For example, if the rate of growth

is left unchecked, spending on just

three entitlement programsSocial

Security, Medicare and Medicaidis

set to exceed the historical amount of

all federal spending by 2030. Over the

course of the next 75 years, these

three programs alone will represent a

$67 trillion unfunded lia

trillion more than all ocollected in U.S. history.

We cannot and should

way out of this problem. A

by the Congressional Bu

found that if health

continue to grow 2.5 p

points faster than GDPa

for the past 40 yearstax

need to increase 160 per

for entitlement programs.

Such onerous tax r

bring our economy to a g

Taxing and spending answer. The first step is to

reign in the rate of grow

discretionary and e

spending.

This years feder

presented the new d

majority with a historic op

do so. Officials rangin

Chairman of the Federal

the head of the no

Congressional Budget Of

urging the need for bud

Unfortunately, the d

majority passed a budget t

plates raising taxes by $70

Congress should e

solvency of important

programs for current

generations and pass down

generation a government t

afford.

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You can call Sen. Allard

office at 461-3530.

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We Will All Pay for Unwise Lendinott Burns

ncial Writer

r friends in the lending businessave, once again, lent us into ad of misery that may last longerwe want to contemplate.emember the REIT bust of the

70s? It was driven by carelesslyous lending.he big commercial banks felleach other making big loans tostate developers. The developerswhatever they wanted to build.assumed that their project wouldccessful even when it was clear

many projects would not be occu-for years.

When that bust ended, I rememberding a shareholders meetinge the esteemed Cabot, Cabot andes Land Trust declared it was nor capable of paying its dividend.

oo much got built too fast.r how about the S&L bust of theThat bit of excess wiped out the savings and loan industry anda mega-billion-dollar bill toress, which you and I collec-pay.

oday, yet another wave of Nitwiting has put the entire financialm at hazard, and the subprimegage mess is only part of theem. The rising wave of adjustableage rate resets is a larger problem.esets scheduled for nextuary and March alone will bethan all the resets in the first six

hs of this year, $197 billion.

Talk about moments of truth.Thats when many owners willbecome renters and many lenderswill become harried owner/sellers.Then, not now, is when the housingmarket should start to bottom. Itsalso when consumers will be tightestwith their spending, so were likely

to see a weaker economy than we seetoday.

It would be easy to Armageddon-ize this, and you can read plenty ofblogs doing just that. But its really just an unnecessary replay of earliersurges of Nitwit Lending. Were goingto have to tough it out.

Whats the lesson here?The lending sector has proven

itself to be unrelentingly dull-wittedaltogether too often. If they arentsmart enough to change theirbehavior, we have to change ours.

First, dont borrow money just

because a lender makes it available.Second, ask yourself whether

youll be able to pay it back. Yourlender is clueless; so its up to you toknow.

Third, dont plan on being able tosell anything quickly or easily,because these jokers cant be relied onto provide a steady and reasonableflow of financing. When their ownfoolishness comes back to bite them,they invariably make things worse byreducing lending, making a bad situa-tion worse.

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vary greatly in how they determineMedicaid eligibility and provide serv-ices.

The lowest ranking states includedColorado, Texas, Oklahoma, SouthDakota, Mississippi, Missouri, South

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Towns Named for

Frontier Soldiers

eggy Hunt

sper, Wyoming, and Fort

Collins, Colorado, were

ed for two frontier soldiers

m the same familyCol.

am O. Collins and his son Lt.

ar Collins.

ne survived the Indian wars

e 1800s; the other did not.

ol. William Collins was the

mander of the famous Fort

mie in eastern Wyomingn he established a military

p in 1864 along the Poudre

r in northern Colorado,

h became Fort Collins. He

retired after serving in the

Ohio Cavalry.

is son, Caspar, was stationed

camp called Platte Bridge at

became the town of Casper

a spelling change).

n July 26, 1865, Lt. Caspar

ns rode out with 25 soldiers

otect a wagon train headed foramp. He knew that hundreds

of Indians were in the area.

Caspar and his troops suddenly

found themselves surrounded by

warriors, shooting rifles and

arrows at close range from thun-

dering horses.

The fighting was so close that

the combatants could almost reach

out and touch each other. As

Caspar and his men raced back to

the camp, he was shot in the hip.

He was able to keep riding and

might have made it if he had notstopped to help a wounded soldier

get up on his horse. The warriors

caught up and killed both of them.

Most of the other soldiers

survived.

Caspars friend, a soldier

named Jim, later said Caspar

knew he would not get back alive

when he left camp that day. He

told Jim, Here is my cap that you

have admired. Keep it to

remember me by.

Today he is remembered by thetown that bears his name.

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eptember 2007 The Senior Voice

men excitedly waving long spears,

their fur-clothed bodies darting from

rock to rock, careful not to slip down-

ward and into the carnage that was

about to unfold.

Soon, mammoth fur became indis-

tinguishable from that of the Clovis

hunters whose flint spear points

pierced through the mammoths hide

and flesh. One by one, the shrieking

giants, some nearly 12 feet tall, rolled

ch Savino

dozen or so mammoths, mostly

emales with their frightened

g by their sides, found them-

s trapped in the mud of a narrow

close to the South Platte River

Greeley.

heir 14-foot tusks flailed wildly

e air, their frantic cries pierced

iting cold. Above them stood

Dent Archaeology Site by Greele

over until they all lay dead or dying.

Then the butchering began in earnest.

No one knows how the mammoths

became trapped in the mud nearly

11,000 years ago at the end of the

Pleistocene Ice Ageor how many

Clovis hunters took part in the

slaughter. Did the animals actually

perish in that draw, or were they killed

elsewhere and their bones washed

downstream in some long ago

flooding?

What we do know is based on the

archaeological evidence left behind.

The discovery was the first of its kind

in the New World when Frank Garner,

an employee of the Union Pacific

Railroad, woke one morning in 1932

and set out to check a remote section

of track near Milliken.

The protruding bones he found

would eventually turn the archaeolog-

ical community on its ear, due more to

missed opportunity than anything

else. Had archaeologists known

exactly what they had in their posses-

sion at Dent, an entire cultural

phenomenon would have changed

people would be referring to that

juncture of history as the Dent rather

than the Clovis culture. Their stone

spear points would have been called

Dent, not Clovis points.

Excavations were undertaken first

by Regis University, then by the

Denver Museum. Among the skeletal

remains that Garner discovered, and

Father Bilgery and Dr. J. D. Figgins

excavated later that year, were three

large spear points found embedded in

the animals remainsthe first unde-niable proof that man hunted and

killed large mammoths.

Up until that time

thought to have salvaged

the weaker and more

members of the herds, a

hunt the large beasts in

fashion for food.

The archaeologists did

widely known what they h

was not until a few year

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irty years ago, Fort Collinswas proclaimed a Tree City

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he beautiful trees we have.

e pioneers brought tree seeds

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ons. When the military post

located here in 1864, there

very few trees because this is

mi-arid region.

he city has over 120 different

s that are named by the

stry office. In the original

plot, east-west streets were

n the names of trees; north-

h streets were named for

eers.

ome of the most common

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cottonwood and linden. The offi-

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Laughter Is thBest Medicine

Apoliceman saw a car parked inlovers lane one night.He walked up and saw the interior

light on in the car. A young man was

sitting behind the wheel reading amagazine. In the back seat, a young

woman sat alone knitting a sweater.

He asked the young man, What

are you doing?

Reading.

Whats she doing?

Knitting.

How old are you? asked the

officer.

Im 21, said the young man.

How old is she?

Shell be 18 in fifteen minutes.

Differences between men and

women:

Men wake up as good-looking as

they went to bed. Women somehow

deteriorate during the night.

Children. A woman knows all

about her children. She knows about

dentist appointments and

best friends, favorite fo

fears and hopes and dream

vaguely aware of short p

in the house.

John met a woman wh

tion and fell in love with h

On the last night of h

the two of them went to

had a serious talk abou

would continue their relati

Its only fair to warn

golf nut, John said. I ea

breathe golf. If thats

youd better say so now.

She replied, Since w

honest, I should tell hooker.

John thought for a m

he said, Its probably bec

not keeping your left wris

you hit the ball.

Some one-liners:

Police were called to

center where a three-ye

resisting a rest.

A store gave out dead b

of charge.

A thief fell and broke h

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criminal.

Definition of a will: a dea

Members of an Indian

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e town of Longmont was named

or nearby Longs Peak by short-Longs Mountain to Longmont.

71 Longmonts first settlers heldeting, decided on the name, andunced:The executive council have beenul to select a name for the newwhich should embrace or suggestleading and permanent feature ofest. Among all the imposingts that help make up that picturenrivaled beauty and grandeurh will forever greet the eye, firstoremost stands Longs Peak, and

ame Longmont has therefore beened as most appropriate.was a good choice. From the

h side of town, you have anessive view of the 14,255-footntain that dominates Coloradosern front range. It must have beenmore impressive to pioneers whoed the barren, dusty plains to getlorado. To them, it probably wasthe founders said: a picture of

aled beauty.ongmonts founders had come all

way from Chicago in 1871 toish a temperance colony likene established a year before atey. They wanted no drinking orns in the new town. The colonysnizers wanted moral andstrious families who would beg to endure the hardships of theer.hey called themselves thecago-Colorado Colony. Thosesigned up paid a $150 member-fee, which went to purchase landay expenses of starting the town.

also had to pay for their ownportation to Colorado, home-ng costs, furniture, supplies andess equipment.o it was not a group of down-out people who made thatey West in 1871. About 200 ofraised $150,000 among their

bersan impressive sum indays.

ut why did they come? The goldwas over. There were still threatsIndians, unknown elements andconditions. Remaining in the

zed Midwest would have beencomfortable.

They came, in part, because after1865 the Civil War had left the nationin an economic depression and many

families were uprooted or forced toseek new ways of making a living.Tuberculosis in the East was wide-spread, and many hoped to get awayfrom that deadly disease.

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History of Encampment, Wyomiill Lambdin

ou like Wyoming history, yought enjoy Candy Moultons The Grand Encampment:ng the High Country.s about the little town of

mpment in southern Wyomingthe famous Ferris-Haggartyer Mine there. It also deals withsettlers, ranches, lumberjacks,

pioneer towns like Battle, Swanlaces that no longer exist.oulton tells about a time

w Butch Cassidy and his gangto Encampment. They heardthe big payroll brought to the

e and probably consideredng it. They didnt, but they didup one day:

They stopped at the store to get

ies, said Moulton. About anafter the gang departed fromommunity, a mounted possein from Rawlins. The gangtedly stashed some leather mailhes along the (mine) tramnear Bridger Peak and then the

ws separated.

She also discusses Buffalo Bill

Codys investment in one of theareas copper mines, noting that helost an estimated $60,000. That wasjust one of several bad investmentsCody made during his lifetime. Theyeventually left him nearly brokewhen he was old.

One of Wyomings famous

pioneer ranches was in the area. The

huge Swan Ranch extended fromChugwater north of Cheyenne all theway to Baggs west of Encampment.The Swan family trailed their firstherd of longhorns to the Encampmentvalley in 1880 and ran up to 10,000head there for several years.

If youve been south of theEncampment and Saratoga area,youve seen the signs along the roadfor the Big Creek Ranch and StateLine Ranch. In the late 1880s,Barney Hunter brought Texas cattleto the Big Creek where he and his

family eventually owned thousandsof acres, extending from Saratoganearly to Walden in northernColorado, said Moulton.

The ranch included what was latercalled the State Line Ranch. Theowners developed such a goodsystem of irrigation that their hayfields at one time produced nearlyone-fourth of all the hay in Wyoming.

In 1967 the Gates RubberCompany family bought the

ranches, which then tot

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The Gates family and rate ranchers in the area the little town of Endevelop a fine westemuseum. Saratoga also ha

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Health providers are so afraid of

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patients identity, such as using code

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see you now.

Birthday parties in some nursing

homes have been cancelled becausestaff were afraid of revealing resi-

dents date of birth, said the Times.

Nurses in an emergency room did

not call parents of some sick students

because they feared they would be

giving out confidential information.

The Hipaa law does not say infor-

mation should be den

members, but providers

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its best to error on the sid

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Hipaa regulations can b

nurses and other providers

get adequate training in thesaid researchers. And it

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That can be very fru

family members who, un

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ill Lambdin

Pegleg Smith, a famous beavertrapper of the 1820s and 30s,eled through North Parkorado) in 1827 with a party ofers.A band of Indians attacked them,in the fight an arrow struckh in the leg just above the ankle,

ng a compound fracture.When Smith stepped toward ao pick up his gun, the shatteredone stuck in the ground. Hispanions were unwilling totate the leg; so Smith, using aer knife, did it himself.

Milton Sublette, who was one ofarty, then helped him finish they searing the stump with a red-ron to stop the bleeding... Theers carried him westward fromh Park in a litter between twos, finally reaching Green River...

While there, after his leg hadd, Smith fashioned a woodenor himself. After that, he wente name of Pegleg Smith...hat is an excerpt from Hazelhams North Park, a bookt the pioneers in the area

nd Walden, Colorado, west ofCollins.

is one of the finest localry books in northern Colorado,hundreds of photographs and

many pages of stories about earlysettlers and ranch families.

If some of your family were fromNorth Park, youll definitely want

this book. If not, youll still enjoythe good writing and historicalphotographs in it.

Gresham helped establish theNorth Park Museum in Waldenyears ago as a descendant of apioneer family there. Her grandfa-ther, Sam Brownlee, arrived in 1879after working as a young cowboy onthe Texas Trail.

Sam and Maude (Greshamsgrandmother) were married at OldFort Saunders near Laramie City,Wyoming, said Gresham.

When they were first married,Sam insisted on using his boots for apillow, as he had done so many yearson the Texas Trail. Finally Maudemade him a pillow stuffed tight andhard, which he always used.

Greshams book also discussesKit Carson, Jim Bridger and othermountain men who were in NorthPark in the early 1800s. Plus theIndians who lived there long beforethe ranchers and Teller City gold

miners arrived. You can still reachthe old ghost town of Teller Citysouth of Gould.

Gresham recalled the time a

group of trappers encountered ChiefColorow, who didnt want whitesettlers moving into North Park:

The chief took their visit as apersonal insult, greeting the partywith a gruff salutation, You go!

As they made no move to go,the order was repeated with evenmore emphasis. Johnny Kite under-took to argue the matter withColorow, who struck him over thehead with a whip.

Colorow was accompanied byabout 30 warriors, so it is needless

to say the party did not molest NorthPark beaver on that trip.

Gresham also recalled a story bypioneer John Ish, about the time heand a companion were hauling elkthey had killed from North Park toFort Collins, intending to sell themeat and make a little money. Ishsaid:

A fellow by the name ofRobertson went with me. He had afour-horse team and a heavy wagon.

North

Park in

the

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Walden pioneers traveling by horse and buggy. Photo Hazel Greshams book.

I had just one team anwagon.

I had four elk on mthey were big ones,

pounds each. Robertson eight...The road was stee

wheel brakes didnt holdwent faster and faster doand when they came to aover it went, spilling Rohis load of frozen elk dow

I expected to find and my heart stood still. instantly, he bobbed up, hin his teeth.

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lorado has many ghost towns

hat are fun to discover when

re hiking or driving in the

ntains, and they can put you in

h with the states colorful past.

ureka and Animas Forks wereed near present-day Silverton

he San Juan Mountains of

hwestern Colorado.

n early writer described a

e at Eureka in 1877:

Soon the damsels began to

e, some on burros and some

ot.

The music was provided by a

e and banjo, and the ball opened

the San Juan Polka, which

mbled a Sioux war dance...

The ironclads of the minersn to raise the dust of the floor

at before long it was impos-

to tell what was what...

Groundhog was the chief dish

late supper, which also served

x, gravy, bacon, coffee, tea and

a large variety of pies and cakes.

After this light repast, the dance

resumed till morning.

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a typical dance in an 1800s mining

town, except the writer omitted the

quantities of liquor required to

wash down the dust.

Eureka was established in 1860

eight miles northeast of Silverton.

The huge Sunnyside Mine there

was one of the largest producers in

the West, operating continuously

until 1931 and pouring out

millions of dollars worth of gold.Eurekas population reached 250

at one time. It wasnt deserted until

1937; so it is one of Colorados

most recent ghost towns.

Animas Forks was four miles

north of Eureka on what is now a

jeep road to Lake City from

Silverton (over Cinnamon Pass).

That jeep road was originally a

stagecoach road, and Animas Forks

was at one time the high

America, sitting at 11,58

The location meant

unbearably harsh wi

dangerous snowslides

blizzard that lasted near

dumped 25 feet of sn

townin addition to the

snow that fell that winte

A handful of miners

a saloon and kept thegoing by beating each oth

At a nearby valley

mountain side of snow

and left a 250-foot-deep

that was nearly a half mi

One early writer said

Forks: The populatio

400 in the summer but

a dozen men, three wom

dogs in the winter.

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Eureka in its heyday. Colorado Historical Society.


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Ahusband came home late onenight after drinking withnds, and his wife assaulted him

h a broom.

As he ran around the house

ng to escape, he yelled to her,

re you still cleaning or flying

mewhere?

After a holiday, an elementary

cher asked the children how

y spent their vacation. One

d wrote:

We always used to spend the

idays with Grandma and

ndpa. They used to live in a big

ck house, but Grandpa got

rded and they moved to Arizona.

Now they live in a tin box and

e rocks painted green to look

e grass. They ride around onr bicycles and wear name tags

ause they dont know who they

They go to a building called

wrecked center, but they must

e got it fixed because it is okay

Mature people often do not getenough vitamin D, accordingto a report in the Journal of

Gerontology.

Researchers studied nearly 1,000

people over age 65 and concluded that

at least 25 percent of Americans in

that age group have insufficient

vitamin D levels. People normally getthe vitamin from exposure to the suns

ultraviolet rays and from foods such as

fortified milk, juices and cereals.

now. They do exercises there, but

they dont do them very well. In

the swimming pool, they all jump

up and down with hats on.

At their gate, there is a doll

house with a man sitting in it. He

watches all day so nobody can

escape. Sometimes they sneak out

and go cruising in their golf carts.

Nobody cooks; they just eat

out. And they eat the same thing

every night: Early Birds.

Some of the people cant get

out past the man in the doll house.

The ones who do get out, bring

food back to the wrecked center

and call it pot luck.

My Grandma says that

Grandpa worked all his life to earn

his retardment and says I should

work hard so I can be retardedsomeday too.

When I earn my retardment, I

want to be the man in the doll

house. Then I will let people out

so they can visit their grandchil-

dren.

For the Fun of It Its difficult for maturget enough vitamin D fro

and their skin is less able

it from sun exposure

researchers. They recomm

age 50 to 70 get at least 4

tional units of vitamin D

over age 70 need 600 unit

The vitamin is impbone health and muscl

and it may protect aga

diabetes and other proble

Arecent study of hormonetherapy says women over age60 should not use it, according to a

report in the Journal of the American

Medical Association.

The study also said that women

over 60 are at greater risk of heart

attacks if they experience hot flashes

and night sweats, regardless of

whether or not they take hormone

therapy.

The study included more than

27,000 women ages 5

major purpose was to d

the hormone therapy dru

could prevent heart a

researchers concluded t

not. In fact, they said

increased the risk of he

strokes and breast cancer

Researchers said wom

50s could probably tak

therapy with little risk

should not continue it afte

Hormone Therapy After Ag

Some Need Extra Vitam

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now Shoe Itinerantill Lambdin

n Dyer was a courageousoneer who became Colorados

famous mountain preacher,ng winter blizzards and trav-

g alone in the wilderness toh mining towns in the 1800s.

nown as the snowshoe itin-, Dyer preached in saloons, or wherever he could

vince the rough miners ton. He usually walked from oneng camp to the other, with noto protect him from outlaws,or other dangers.winter, he often crossed the

ntains at night when the snowcrusted over and would hold

weight. He used a pair of crudewegian skis about eight feet

which he made himself. Hetimes slept on the ground in alo robe.e was a powerful man. If het been, the elements wouldkilled him because he was

y 50 years old when he begancareer as a circuit-ridingcher in Colorado.orn in 1812, Dyer grew up inand Illinois with little educa-but a strong Methodist

ground. He worked in lead

es in Wisconsin and latere, I had nothing but mys to depend on.

When his wife died, leavingwith five children, he was

despondent. He decided to make anew start by becoming a preacherand headed for the wilds ofColorado in 1861, two years afterthe gold rush began.

At Omaha, he had to sell hishorse. He walked the next 600miles to Denver. Then he walkedanother 100 miles to the miningcamps in South Park, near present-day Fairplay and Breckenridge.

He made the 100-mile walkfrom South Park to Denver severaltimes. He could do it in two andone-half days, even when he wasover 50.

He earned a living as best hecould, but most miners were poorand left little in the collectionplate. Sometimes families gavehim sugar, flour or whatever they

could spare.He worked at odd jobs. One

winter he carried mail over 13,000-foot Mosquito Pass to Leadville.He made a little money, but it wasa hard, dangerous job.

He continued to preach foryears in spite of personal lossesthat tested his faith. One of hissons drowned at sea during theCivil War. Another lost a foot inthat war. A third son, a judge innearby Lake County, was killed by

a group of vigilantes.In 1880, Dyer built a smallchurch in Breckenridge andremained there for a few years. Itwas a welcome relief from

trudging through the mountains tothe mining camps.

He enjoyed Breckenridge, andhis little church was somewhatsuccessful as miners wives andchildren, who wanted churchesand schools, began settlingColorado.

But Father Dyer, as the miners

called him, could not afford toretire, and he continued to workinto his old age. He died in 1901 atage 89.

Years later, his contribution toColorado was recognized with astained glass portrait of him in thestate capitol building. You can seeit today.

You can also see some beau-tiful, leaded glass windows

depicting him in thMethodist Church at BrOne depicts him on skmay be the most uniquever placed in a churchDyer preaching in a salo

A cross in the Brechurch is made from a sone of Dyers h

Norwegian skis. It is asthe man himself.

Dyer wrote an autotitled Snowshoe Itinrecalled that once, whlost in a mountain thought he would freezHe didnt, but he wrotcase someone found his

It said, Look fHeaven.

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In a study of nearly 100 trans-plants, researchers said patientsthemselves made most of theerrors, 68 percent; but pharmaciesand other providers made nearly

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John Dyer. Colorado Historical Society.

arly mailman on skies (not John Dyer). Colorado Historical Society.


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