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The territories of New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, and Nebraska before the creation of the Territory of Colorado. Thirty days later on February 28, 1861, outgoing U.S. President James Buchanan signed an Act of Congress organizing the free Territory of Colorado. [2] The original boundaries of Colorado remain unchanged except for government survey ...
History of Colorado. Coordinates: 38.9972°N 105.5478°W. The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The region that is today the U.S. state of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. [ 1][ 2] The eastern edge of ...
Frozen Dead Guy Days (started 2002) is an annual celebration held in the town of Nederland, Colorado until 2023 and in Estes Park, Colorado in 2023, to loosely celebrate the cryopreservation of Bredo Morstoel.
Alfred Packer. Alfred Griner Packer[ a] (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907), also known as the " Colorado Cannibal ", was an American prospector and self-proclaimed wilderness guide who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. Though no clear or definitive evidence has been found to this day, and despite in-depth research about ...
Fairplay is a statutory town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. [ 1][ 7] The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census. [ 4] Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of 9,953 feet (3,034 m). The town is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the State of ...
Updated September 20, 2019 at 3:43 PM. Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The ...
The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.
The Colorado Coalfield War [c] was a major labor uprising in the southern and central Colorado Front Range between September 1913 and December 1914. Striking began in late summer 1913, organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) after years of deadly working conditions and low pay.