November Posse Meeting
What did the average Colorado woman in the Victorian era wear on a daily basis? Find out from Angela Natalie Weeden as she presents “A Western Woman’s Wardrobe.”
December Posse Meeting
Christopher Howell will present his research findings on “History of Colorado Higher Education”
Image credit: Cranford Hall. 29 March 1895. A man sits in a one-person cart, hitched to a horse, on the dirt road leading to the State Normal School (now the University of Northern Colorado and formerly known as Colorado Teachers College, Colorado State College of Education, and Colorado State College) in Greeley, Colorado, in Weld County.
January Posse Meeting
“The History of the Denver Mint, 1860 to 1906” presented by Roger L. Dudley
October Posse Meeting
Alan Prendergast will speak about his new book, “Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan”
September Posse Meeting
“Cherry Creek: Castlewood Canyon, Canals, Clark Colony Cherries” by Lee Whiteley
May Posse Meeting
“‘Steel City Strong’ The Creation of the Pueblo Steel Mill and Its Effects on Pueblo” by Payton Odell
April Posse Meeting
“Lou and JonBenét, A Legendary Lawman’s Quest” by John Wesley Anderson
February Posse Meeting
“Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Friends” by John S. Engs
January Posse Meeting
Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was” by Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer
December Posse Winter Rendezvous
Colorado Law Enforcement Memorial by Keith Dameron. More details TBD.
November Posse Meeting
Auraria: The Forgotten Slice of Denver's History by Krista Marks. More details TBD.
October Posse Meeting
History of the Ski train, Rio Grande's 80 years of trips to Winter Park by Richard Luckin with a 26 minute video. More details TBD.
September Posse Meeting
Who passed through the San Miguel County Courthouse (New Mexico) by Paul Marquez.
August Posse Summer Rendezvous
Rendezvous at the Colorado State Patrol Museum in Golden at Camp George West, 15400 S. Golden Road. More details to follow.
July Posse Meeting
Denver Police in the 19th Century by Sgt. Chris Hoag (retired) Denver Police Department historian. More details to follow.
June Posse Meeting
We’ll hear from Tom Noel about the history of Colorado’s High Line Canal.
May Posse Meeting
Don Sanborn and Dan Stuart will present the “History of the AdAmAn Club.”
April Posse Meeting
Roger Dudley will present on Indian Oral Traditions and Creation Stories.
March Posse Meeting
In his talk “Lost Downtown Denver,” Mark Barnhouse will delve into the history of Denver’s erasure of its past, exploring several waves of change that have transformed its downtown.
February Posse Meeting
We will hear from Kenia Hansen-Guzman on “The Building of a New Community: How a Sugar Beet Factory Created the Second Most Diverse Community in Colorado.”
January Posse Meeting
Mark Hanson will give a talk on his research and forthcoming book, “Tarryall Gold: From Rush to Hush.”
December Posse Meeting
We will hear a talk related to Steve Friesen’s new book called Galloping Gourmet: Dining With Buffalo Bill.
September Posse Meeting
“Lessons from a 19th Century Pauper Cemetery: The Story of the Leadville Irish Memorial” by Dr. James Patrick Walsh
August 12 - Summer Rendezvous
We will be exploring the Colorado Capitol Tunnels in August.
July 26th Posse Meeting
“The Heart of Colorado: Symbolism at the Statehouse” by Derek R. Everett
June 28th Posse Meeting
“Dr. Rose Kidd Beere 1859-1927”
Performed by Rebecca A. Hunt, Ph.D.
Rose Kidd Beere was a doctor in Colorado in the nineteenth century. In 1892, she moved to Durango to practice medicine. In 1895 Governor Alva Adams asked her to take over the new State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver. In 1898, the First Colorado Infantry went to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War; and she went too, not as a doctor but as a nurse. After a year, she returned to Denver and became health officer for the Denver Public Schools. She was the doctor at the Poor Farm and ran Denver General Hospital. Dr. Rebecca Hunt will present a first-person account of Rose Kidd Beere‘s life.
Rebecca A. Hunt, is a third-generation Casper native, currently dividing her time between her Denver home and her family home on Casper Mountain. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1974 and the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in Western American History from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is on the advisory committee for History Colorado’s Center for Colorado Women’s History.
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May 24th Posse Meeting
“Gone and Mostly Forgotten”
By Bob Easterly, P.M.
The first burial ground in Gunnison, Colorado, where the earliest pioneers are interred, drifted into oblivion about 1884. Gunnison native Bob Easterly got interested in the subject when he learned that the cemetery was on a ranch that his grandfather and father owned back in the 1930s. Sometimes called Boulevard Cemetery, it was accidentally uncovered in 1994 during a uranium mitigation project. After remediation in 1995, Boulevard once again slipped into oblivion.
Bob Easterly is a fourth-generation Coloradoan, who grew up as a rancher’s kid. He is retired from a career with two of Colorado’s pioneer financial institutions, a 30-year tour in the U.S. Naval Reserve and most recently worked in disaster recovery. He is a Past President of the Mount Evans Chapter – Sons of the American Revolution, Past Sheriff of the Denver Posse, and a member of numerous historical and genealogical societies in Colorado and Pennsylvania. He is a volunteer at the Archives and Local History Center of the Douglas County Library in Castle Rock.
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