What do you think of when you think of Valentine’s Day? Cards, cupids, roses a romantic dinner? Did you know the day is in honor of a man named Valentine who lived in the third century? On February 14, 269AD Valentine was beheaded by Emperor Claudius because he would not deny his Christian faith. This […]
This is fun, short story, about a 20-30 minute read about the super-stars of the early 1900’s, the beautiful Floradora Girls. This was the first, but not the last, girl dance group. You will enjoy stepping back into time for a look into America’s Gilded Age when going to the theater for live performances was […]
Irene Aloha Wright was the adored, only child of Ed and Letitia Wright. With the money Ed and his brother George made from the Wheel of Fortune Mine, they built the Wright Opera House in Ouray, Colorado. In 1895, at age 15, Irene was on her way to an elite boarding school for young women […]
I’m always impressed with marathon runners. Anyone who enters, runs and completes this grueling race, regardless of their time, has my admiration. In the marathon of life, Barney Ford entered, raced, completed and won! What makes Barney Ford so admirable is that in his lane, he had a hurdle to jump every 100 yards. Hurdles […]
In 1874, Alferd (odd, but correct spelling) Packer was accused of murdering, then eating his five prospecting companions in the rugged mountains of Colorado. Cannibal he was. Was he a murderer? What really happened to the men during that brutal winter of 1874? This short, 10 minute read, is the true story of Alferd Packer, […]
In the year 1881, in boom town Telluride, Colorado, no one seemed more out of place than impeccably dressed, 5’1″, 115 pound, L.L.Nunn. He had walked to Telluride from Durango with a small amount of cash, his cloths on his back and big dreams. Within 10 years, L.L. Nunn would put Telluride on a world-wide […]
Evalyn Walsh spent the first 10 years of her life moving around Colorado while her father searched for that illusive big strike that would make them rich. In 1895 the Walsh family moved to Ouray, Colorado. Within a year, Tom Walsh had found the mother lode high above Ouray near Imogene Pass. This short eBook, […]
This fun book, read time one hour, contains the wonderful short stories of sixteen women including: Anna Morgan Guillet, (cover photo) who came from Iowa to Southwestern Colorado as a mail order bride. Henrietta Brown crossed the country in a covered wagon three times before she tried her hand at homesteading. She was the first […]
Marguerite Brunswig Staude, 1899-1988 had a vision to build a church in the shape of a cross. Her wealthy parents embraced her vision and offered to buy her the land, “wherever in the world she wished.” In this short eBook, about a 15 minute read, learn how the Chapel of the Holy Cross came to […]
Olive Dove was born in 1901 in South Dakota to a Sioux Indian mother and a German father. She ran away from home at age 14 after her mothers death. Upon arriving in Winslow, Arizona a few years later, she became a Harvey Girl and changed her name to Juanita Gale. She would change her […]
