History of Denver
With Outlines of the
Rocky Mountain Country
Edited for the
Jerome C. Smiley,
with Many Illustrations
Transcribed for the Denver
County COGenWeb Project
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"First" House-Building - Some of the "Early
Settlers" - Pioneer Street Names - First Cabin - Other Early
Builders in "Auraria City" - Beginnings of "Denver
City" - Its First Cabin, and Subsequent Pioneer Improvements
- Mercantile Pioneers - First Christmas Celebration at Cherry
Creek - First Masonic Meeting - First Clergyman - Pioneer Women
- Rivalry Between the Two Towns - Conditions at Close of 1858
- Their Common Heritage
Effect in the East of "Pike’s Peak Stories"
in Winter of 1858-59 - Great Invasion in the Spring of 1859 -
Reflex of Panic of 1857 - Character of Immigrants - Hardships
of the Journey - Reckless Enthusiasm of the Host - Legends Adorning
Wagons - Daily Routine and Incidents - Delusions of Embryo Miners
- Mass of Immigrants Not of Unworthy Men - Peculiar Circumstances
Attending Colorado’s Settlement.
Progress of Cherry Creek Towns - New Business Enterprises
- First Hotel - "County Murat" - First Ferry - First
birth in the Settlements - Career of the First-Born - Isolation
in that First Winter - Further Improvements and Business Enterprises
- Arrival of Saw Mills - Political Movement - Pioneer Newspapers
- Transactions of the town Companies - Homicide - First Stages
to Denver - Progress Made by Midsummer of 1859.