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Colorado’s past, perhaps more than any other state in the union, best exemplifies the tenacity of the American spirit through true tales of its boom and bust era’s of the 1800’s.
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Leadville
“There is but one Leadville and never will there be another.”
- Carlyle Channing Davis - 1916
Leadville, once slated to be the capital of Colorado, was home to some of the most famous and infamous characters in American history. It was said that anyone who was anyone, had visited Leadville at least once... and the more you visited, the more you became entranced with its rugged beauty and unlimited possibilities.
A handful of names from Leadville’s “guest register”:
- Susan B. Anthony
- John Henry “Doc” Holliday
- David May (founder of Foley’s/Macy’s)
- FIVE U.S. Presidents
- Charles Dow (founder of Dow -Jones)
- Meyer Guggenheim & Sons
- “Unsinkable” Molly Brown
- Houdini
- Oscar Wilde
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