Contents -- ix Foreword -- xi Preface -- xvii Acknowledgments and editors' note -- 1 To the Pike's Peak Country in 1859 and Cannibalism on the Smoky Hill Route Henry Villard -- 14 Our New Road Helen Hunt Jackson -- 26 First Official Visit to the Cliff Dwellings William Henry Jackson -- 36 Fraeb's Last Fight LeRoy R. Hafen -- 42 Recollections of a Trip to the San Luis Valley in 1877 Albert B. Sanford -- 51 The Kingdom of Bull Hill Emil W. Pfeiffer -- 57 The Hermit of Pat's Hole Edgar C. McMechen -- 66 Irwin, a Ghost Town of the Elk Mountains Muriel Sibell Wolle -- 74 Hunting Antelope with Dogs A. R. Ross -- 80 Jack Sumner and John Wesley Powell Wallace Stegner -- 91 Pearl Harbor and One Mother's Heartbreak Clara May Morse -- 101 The Wizard of East Pikes Peak: Nikola Tesla's Experimental Station Richard Grove -- 107 Port Stockton, Outlaw Maxine Benson -- 116 Three Governors in a Day Marjorie Hornbein -- 134 A Land unto Itself: The Western Slope Duane A. Smith -- 148 The Cowboy: Reflections of a Western Writer Louis L'Amour -- 157 Mari Sandoz in Colorado Caroline Bancroft -- 169 Peyotism in Colorado Omer C. Stewart -- 177 William D. Haywood: "The Most Hated and Feared Figure in America" Thomas J. Noel -- 192 Bent's Fort and Manifest Destiny David Lavender -- 207 Tragedy on Longs Peak: Walter Kiener's Own Story James H. Pickering -- 225 "Bristling for Their Rights": Colorado's Women and the Mandate of 1893 Stephen J. Leonard -- 234 The Real West Patricia Nelson Limerick -- 252 Comrades of Color: Buffalo Soldiers in the West, 1866-1917 Quintard Taylor -- 274 Los Betabeleros (The Beetworkers) José Aguayo -- 289 A Whiskey Train and a Doughnut Day: Coming of Age on the Eastern Colorado Plains Keith A. Cook -- 301 The Last Back Fence in Town: The Assassination of Alan Berg Clark Secrest.

310 "The Napa Valley of Beer": Colorado's Brewpub Phenomenon Richard A. Kreck -- 319 Written in Blood: The Soule-Cramer Sand Creek Massacre Letters Gary L. Roberts and David Fridtjof Halaas -- 338 The Demons of Elizabeth Tabor: Mining "Dreams and Visions" from the Matchless Judy Nolte Temple -- 356 Delta's King of Kings: The Egyptian Theatre and the Bank Night Craze Larry Borowsky -- 373 History and Memory: The Story of Denver's Chinatown William Wei -- 392 Colorado's Cycliennes Modupe Labode.