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Hidden History of Denver

By Elizabeth Victoria Wallace

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2011
ISBN
9781625841773, 9781609493509, 2011037318
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3017634 bytes)
Series
Hidden History
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-08 04:17:08
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

When prospectors set up camp on Cherry Creek in 1858, Denver emerged as a lightning rod for the extraordinary. Time has washed away so many unusual stories—from the dark days of nineteenth-century Law and Order League lynchings and the KKK's later rise and fall to the heroism of suffragettes and the touching plight of the gypsies. Elizabeth Wallace knocks the dust off these details and introduces readers to characters like world heavyweight boxing champion Charles L. "Sonny" Liston, hitman turned rodeo promoter Leland Varain, aka "Diamond Jack," and the city's daring wall dogs, whose hand-painted building advertisements are fading reminders of a bygone Denver.

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