Episode 15 - Colorado Oddities Part One: Silver Days of Colorado

What lies deep in the mountains. Beyond the tree line and up to where the oxygen is thin. What stories and bits of the past have frozen to the rocks and have been forgotten, or turned to legends and reduced to stories we tell children around the campfires to scare them into eating their vegetables? What are they? What stories have we forgotten? Colorado is built on tall tales and legends, stories that have been twisted from the truth, but what really happened in those mines and on the trails to mountainside ghost towns? What was Colorado like before the modern world of campers and jeeps, computers, and technology took over? What if we were able to go back in time and see what it was like in the heydays of Colorado? Maybe we would be faced with the glitz and glam, or maybe tragedy. Or maybe we too would be reduced to a legend like the town of Buckskin Joe. Regardless of where we would end up, there is no denying that in the 19th century Colorado was in its prime, a wealthy and popping state with a flood of people trying to get rich, to get away from illness, and to escape to the mountains. The Colorado Silver days were anything but that of legends, they were a time to never forget.

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Research-

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/elizabeth-%E2%80%9Cbaby-doe%E2%80%9D-tabor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Doe_Tabor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Silverheels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Silver_Boom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Tabor#:~:text=Horace%20Austin%20Warner%20(%22Haw%22,Hollywood%20biographical%20movie%20Silver%20Dollar.

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