*Listener Discretion Advised* Topics include: cannibalism, suicide, disfigurement, disease and suffocation resulting in death, hypothermia resulting in death, animal deaths due to suffocation from fire and general accidental poisoning, heart disease, etc...

A horror story on the Smokey Hill Trail - Deadly fire blows through mountains - The Boulder County Marshal Fire 2021/2022 - How to make Apple Cider Vinegar according to 1859 - Obituaries - Mountain Tour

While the miners mine in future Gilpin and Caesar Creek Counties, a fire sweeps through the mountains killing 3, and their two animals. Two men freeze to death on the plains, leaving evidence that in the next to last stage of hypothermia, the suffers feel so hot they remove their clothing.

This episode, filled with primary information, is a collection of newspaper articles published between May and July of 1859 in the Rocky Mountain News. Thank you for listening.

The South Park Miner Ambush of 1859

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Topics of this show include: suicide, homicide, human decay, dismemberment and terrible suffering.

Bent's Fort - La Junta Colorado - J.B. Kennedy S.D. (L.J.) Shank (Schank) William Slaughter Christopher "Kit" Carson - Ute Tribal People - THE South Park of Colorado - Miners Ambushed - Mysterious Location - Murder/Suicide

Three miners embark on a prospecting tour of THE South Park. Ute tribesmen in the area appear friendly, until they prove otherwise. One man (William Slaughter) escapes, survives the trek back to the Gregory Diggings (Mountain City), and a party (of 100) is formed to bury the bodies and "chastise" the "Indians."

Hear the rest of the story, and if (the mysterious location) is found, please share it with me - I can be contacted through the link below.

Thank you!

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Rocky Mountain News William Slaughter pictured in E23 cover art.

Gilligan's Island - Thank You - Spotify - Mail vs. Express - Henry Allen wins "Mr. Auraria" - Denver City "Post Office" - Real Mail Arrives - Backwards

Almost 700 miles and a month away from friends, family and business (the network connection) the frontiersmen men and women in western Kansas Territory just want a little "network" service (at a fair price...with regularity...like other Americans).

Postage was 3 cents to get a letter 3,000 miles - so why did it cost 28 cents (11 dollars today) to mail a letter back home? Find out by playing the episode...

Thank you, Happy New Year!

Big-time newsmen arrive to see the Pike's Peak gold fields for themselves. They are asked to publish their findings "as they were seen", which the editors do.

Horace Greeley (New York Tribune) Albert D. Richardson (Boston Journal) Henry Villard (Cincinatti Commercial Gazette)

I present...THE REPORT

Mark Twain, Horace Greeley and the Stage (intro)

Horace Greeley and the stage line come to town. Denver City gets a boost when the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company land in the new West Kansas town.

Just after the first stage arrives, three important and trusted newspaper editors ride into town - to set the record straight. Horace Greeley (the most famous visitor yet - and publisher of the New York Tribune), Henry Villard of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Albert Richardson of the Boston Journal.

Does West Kansas impress or repulse?

Back to the Rocky Mountains and gold. The bonanza is on, riches for the quick, the latecomers want a fair chance.

Return of William Green Russell, the Russell diggings, fir$t $trikes, first laws of the Rocky Mountains, John Gregory, Dr. Casto, Defrees, routes to the mines, Horace Greeley

A James P. Beckwourth story for your entertainment, chosen at complete random to better your day. It is a rather tame Beckwourth tale!

Thank you

Walt Whitman - Henry David Thoreau - Horace Greeley - Arapahoe and Cheyenne - Man's Condition

It's never enough is it? Or, isn't it? For the tribal people "it was enough", life, the pursuit of happiness. For the white man, a different path perhaps.

Do we know what we want, or have we proven so already, by our actions?

Happy Thanksgiving - JB