HOT TIP
Buffalo Bill Days is this weekend. If you’re planning to attend the pancake breakfast on Saturday morning (6-10AM), buy your tickets today or tomorrow. You’ll save yourself a lot of waiting on Saturday morning! You can buy tickets at the fire department, next to City Hall (map), or from any firefighter.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8-10PM DeLong Park Weed Busters @ DeLong Park
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
11:30AM-1PM Library for All @ Golden Library
6PM Denver West Quilt Artists @ Golden Quilt Company
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-7PM School of Mines Community Info Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Mines Park Project Update, Capital Project Updates, Campus Operation Updates.oin from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://mines.zoom.us/j/96822362634?pwd=UTNwZTRMT0x2bHZFL1h5N1E5ZFhyUT09&from=addon
Password: 676787
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 719 359 4580 (US Toll) or +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 968 2236 2634
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
CITY MEETING
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
Staff will demonstrate the GIS tool that Public Works uses to determine which spots in the City most urgently require safety improvements. They will also discuss “bike facility standards.” See the meeting packet for more information or watch the meeting to try to get a clearer view of the map above.
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Marty Nightengale @ Golden Mill
5-9PM Josh Blackburn @ Wrigley’s
5:30-8:30PM Chris Koza @ Goosetown Station
5:30-8:30PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
5:30PM Chris Murray @ Over Yonder
6-9PM Poi Rogers @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Hunter James & The Titanic @ New Terrain Brewing
7-10PM Cousin Curtis @ Columbine Cafe
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
George West founded the Golden Transcript and ran it for forty years, till his death in 1906. An inveterate booster, he never ran out of ideas for new businesses or civic improvements to improve Golden. In four decades, he proposed hundreds of them.
118 Years Ago
The July 27, 1905 Colorado Transcript included an article, probably written by George West, titled “Famous Indian Battle Ground Site for Amusement Garden.”
Editor West was making a case for someone to build an amusement park at the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon. He envisioned “a pleasure garden, with a dancing pavilion of generous size, and other accessories along these lines….” He pointed out that Welch ditch could provide irrigation water for the gardens, and our new Beaver Brook water source would provide pure drinking water.
The amusement park never happened, but I was interested in his description of the Indian battle. He claimed that there were remnants of an old Indian fort near the mouth of the canyon, and gave the late Chief Colorow as his source regarding the battle.
…it was away back in the ’40’s, or some twenty years before the advent of the white men, that a most sanguinary battle was fought here between his tribe of Utes and a large party of Arapahoes and Cheyennes. Many were killed on both sides, resulting in a drawn battle, and from that time forward until the white settlers filled the valley the locality was sedulously avoided by both the mountain and plains Indians.
As practically the same story was told us by the old trappers and mountaineers with whom we came in contact here in the early days, we are compelled to believe the legend as vouched for by old Colorow.
Colorado Transcript – July 27, 1905
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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