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About Medicare
Our health care system is broken,and Americans are feeling thepain.Washington needs to addressthis. We can start with some practicalsolutions that members of both polit-ical parties should agree on.
First, we should expand theChildrens Health Insurance Program.Right now millions of children areuninsured. We should immediatelypass bipartisan legislation to helpcover them.
Second, we should grant Medicarethe ability to negotiate with drugcompanies to bring down the cost of medicines. This will help contain thespiraling costs of that program.
Third, we need to give consumersinformation needed to make wise healthcare decisions. To that end, Ive intro-duced consumer protection legislationthat would require insurance companiesto have a standardized description of benefits. Just like the sticker you see
when buying a car, you shstraightforward informat
health care plan youre choosFourth, we should redudeploying electronic healand making better use of itechnology. In many ways, bureaucracy is stuck in the d
Fifth, we should alloimportation of prescriptiolower costs for consumeroutrage that Americans daccess to the same high-quprescription drugs that are avfar less in Canada.
I will be active in thesWashington. I hope you wmy website, www.salazar.sand share your ideas with m
It will take courage health care system, but we I can do it.________________You can call Sen. Ken SalazCollins office at 224-2200.
Many Medicare patients do notknow that the program will payfor some treatments in one state butnot another.
For instance, a new prostate cancertreatment called CyberKnife is coveredby Medicare in New Hampshire butnot across the border in Vermont.
This mainly affects new treat-ments like CyberKnife, which is notcovered in Colorado, Wyoming and15 other states. States decide if thetreatment is too experimental and
does not have a long enough historyof success.
CyberKnife is a newtreatment for prostate canmore convenient than tprocedures, requiring onlyof treatment instead of eigSome doctors say it iimprovement; others say know enough about its long-term effects and cinvestigational.
Each state has a contractor that determines ments will be cove
contractors are units of priance companies. I
Anew federal regulation nowallows states to charge low-income Medicaid patients premiumsand higher co-payments for theirhealth services.
Co-payments will not be muchfor the poorest patients, only about$3.50 for a doctor visit, for instance.But some Medicaid patients withincomes above the poverty level willpay up to 20 percent co-pays forservices. Some will pay $30 for a$150 drug prescription.
Critics say this will discouragemany such patients from getting
medical services. State and fcials agree but say the chang
to control rapidly rising Medand discourage patients femergency rooms for routine
Many Medicaid patientsgrants. The program alchildren of low-income fapoor retirees. Governmenexpect the change to affect people (about one-fifMedicaid recipients).
The change couldMedicaid costs by severdollars over the next few ye
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lorado has many ghost townshat are fun to discover whenre hiking or driving in the
ntains, and they can put you inwith the states colorful past.
of them are Tincup and Saint.incup is northeast of ison, about 12 miles south of or Park Reservoir on theberland Pass Road (or 26north of the town of Pitkin).
incup was a wild, wickedng town controlled entirely byrs of the saloons, gamblingand whorehouses. The townthrough seven sheriffs in a
hort years.he first sheriff, known as Old
Willis, was told: Seeng, hear nothing, do nothing.first arrest you make will belast.
Willis soon resigned because heved no pay. His successor,Lahay, jailed several people
was fired.he third sheriff was gunned
n by Lahay. The fourth wasby the owner of Frenchys
Saloon, one of the most notoriousdives in early Colorado.
The fifth sheriff, Jack Ward,quit to become a preacher. Thesixth, Sam Micky, went insane andwas committed to an asylum.
The seventh was shot. Only theeighth sheriff managed to last outhis term.
It was 1860 when, according toearly residents, a prospector namedJim Taylor dipped his tin drinkingcup in a stream here and sawflakes of gold in the cup. Somepeople said that was how the townof Tincup got its name.
By 1882 Tincup had 3,000 resi-dents, 20 saloons and enoughwhorehouses for an army. Businesswas booming, especially at theundertakers place. The town hadfour cemeteries.
One visitor was awakened onemorning when someone fired eightshots into his tent. He never knewwhy.
The mines began to play outquickly, and by 1890 Tincup wasin decline. It slumbered for years,but it was located in such a scenic
area that people began buildingsummer cabins there in the 1900s,
Tincup in the late 1800s. Colorado Historical Society.
and today it is a popular vacationspot.
Saint Elmo was over theContinental Divide east of Tincup,southwest of present Buena Vistaand 17 miles west of the town of Nathrop.
Founded in 1880, Saint Elmowas both a mining camp and supplytown for other camps in the area. Inthe mid-1880s, its populationreached nearly 2,000 but declinedrapidly after a fire destroyed muchof the town in 1890.
In its heyday, Saint Elmo wasso crowded that men slept onsaloon floors and any place theycould get out of the weather.
One visitor recalled asking ahotel owner for separate rooms forhimself and a friend. The ownerreplied, Ill give you a bed, andyou can draw a chalk mark aroundit for a room.
Early Colorado was a tough,hardscrabble place.________________COVER PICTURE: Two young
foxes in the mountains. Courtesy of the Grand Lake Chamber of
Commerce. See their website at www.grandlakechamber.com. I
Colorado Ghost Towns
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A Blizzard inGreeley, 1913
ors Note: Greeley historianJohnson wrote the
wing story years ago.)
azel Johnson
Greeley Isolated By WorstSnowstorm in Its Historythe headline December 5,
usiness was at a standstillic paralyzed, wires down,s running hours behind time.ocial events were cancelled.started snowing on December
d kept at it until December 5.ey wound up with a total of y 33 inches of snow. Heavywet, it caused considerablege to buildings.he telephone company used angine to keep service going.
Street car service was abandoned,the streetcars left standing where
they stopped. The fire truck,loaded with apparatus, would havebeen unable to reach a fire quickly,if at all.
Out at Roggen where the JohnKlug ranch was located, 500 cattlewere starving after beingmarooned from a herd of 1,100.Cowboys tied four horses, one infront of the other, and managed tobreak a trail for the cattle, saving495 of them.
A nice miserable snow was
the way Stow Witwer of the SLWranch described it. No blizzardwith itsnow so crusted that youcould ride a horse over it.
Snow was up to the secondwire on a three-wire fence, so youcould step over the top wire.
Antelope and jackrabbits gatheredaround haystacks for food.
By December 6, the sun wasshining and trains were creepingthrough. Greeley businessmenturned out with picks and shovelsto clear the streetcar tracks.
They made a fun tiMerchants modeled snowof their businesses, built tudisplays that entertained sh
It was a tough winter, tough as the early residmade Greeley what it is to
Pioneers in a sod house on the plains.Photo Hazel E. Johnson Collection.
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Early Poudre Canyonggy Hunt
vel up the Poudre Canyon inhe 1800s was difficult andtimes dangerous.was a days ride by horse or
on from Fort Collins tomore, and another day to reachanyon at Rustic.
road was not cut through theow rock walls of the lowerre until 1920; so early travelersto go to The Forks andmore, take the the Red Feathers Road west, then go southPingree Hill to reach Rustic
he upper Poudre Canyon.hortly after 1880, Lukehees began operating a stagen that route from Fort Collins
rd Walden. He did it becausemining towns of Lulu City and
r City had been establishedof Cameron Pass.orhees ran a daily stagecoachd by six horses. By changings every 12 or 15 miles, thee could make the trip overron Pass in one day. But it was
g day and a rough ride.
Pioneer Norman Fry recalledthat, even for good stage drivers, thetrip was a tricky business: The one-track wagon road was nothing tobrag about...just literally the widthof a wagon track...It was quite an artto drive a single rig over the roadwithout upsetting.
The stage also delivered mail toseveral post offices. Livermore postoffice opened in 1871. Anotheropened at Chambers Lake in 1880,Rustic in 1880, and Kinnikinik in1882.
Stages could not run in deepwinter snows, so mail had to bedelivered by men wearing snow-shoes or riding on a bobsled pulledby a horse. In 1881, John McNabboften snowshoed from ChambersLake post office, over CameronPass, to Teller City near Gould todeliver mail to miners.
It was a hazardous trip in thosehigh mountains where an avalancheor wild animal could mean suddendeath to a man walking alone.Freezing to death could be equallythreatening. McNabb lived throughit, mainly because he was a strong,
determined pioneer.In 1913-1914, a blizzard isolated
Poudre Canyon from Decemberuntil May. All roads were closed,and the small mountain settlementswere cut off from the rest of theworld for months, except for snow-shoe or bobsled travel.
Things were better when StanleySteamer automobiles came along inthe early 1900s. But not always. In1912, a group of travelers pulled theircar onto the edge of the canyon roadto let a team and wagon pass. The carslid off the side and tumbled down,spilling its passengers over the cliff.
Today we still follow the samePoudre Canyon route pioneers did in
the 1800s. In fact, Indianroute centuries before wharrived, and prehistoripeople used it 10,000 years
The Folsom people hustone spear points attached shafts, hoping to see a deerwould feed their family. paused sometimes to admiras it tumbled down this mcanyon and glistened in thbelow clear, blue skies. Thto the breeze gently blowithe pine trees, and they felsunshine on a beautiful su
just as we do.We travel an ancient t
Poudre. I
Womenseart Attacks
Woman who have a severe heartattack are twice as likely to diehospital as men with the sametion.hat means women are underd for severe heart attacks bytal doctors, said a report in thecal journal Circulation.archers studied more than0 heart attack victims in 420
hospitals.hey found that women were less
to receive beta blocker drugs,
fusion therapy to restore bloodor angioplasty within 90 minutesiving at a hospital. They were
ess likely to receive aspirin.he type of heart attack studied
a myocardial infarctionving a complete blockage of anary artery. For that, womendo not have the chest pain orure men experience, and the
of such warning signs might bereason women are underd.ut the study should be a
eup call to hospitals, saidrchers. I
Cameron Pass above Poudre Canyon. Senior Voice photo.
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Buy Long-Term Care Insurance?on Rutz, AttorneyCorrespondent
met with several long-term careance salespeople, but I amsed about what I have been
Any suggestions?
: Two basic questions need tonswered: Is the fear of losingthing because of nursing homenses realistic? Is the cost of term care insurance premiums
worth the protection gained underthe policy?
If you are over age 70, the oddsof being in a nursing home are about20 percent you never will be in one;20 percent you will stay for threemonths or less; 20 percent you will
stay for six months or less; 20percent you will be in a nursinghome for a year or less; and 20percent you will stay for more than ayear.
The average stay in a nursinghome is about 14 months. Thus forabout 80 percent of the populationover 70, nursing home exposure willbe for less than a year. However, forthe other 20 percent, the stay issignificantly longer, pulling up the
average to 14 months.Medicare will pay for up to threemonths of skilled nursing homecare. Thus many people qualify forat least part of that assistance period.
Lets say that a person is in anursing home for 14 months, quali-fies for two months of Medicarehelp, has a monthly income of $3,000, and the nursing home costs$6,000 a month. That person couldend up paying $40,000 for the 14-month stay.
However, remember that for 80
percent of the population over theage of 70, the amount will be less,since the odds are that they will bein a nursing home for less than ayear.
Thus, I recommend coverage fortwo years, depending on the healthand assets of a person. Also,
depending on income, amonthly coverage of arouto $4,000 should work.
I recommend that you foregoing only if you havebelieve that you will be p20 percent who will have
home stay of more than a you are a belt-and-suspeof person who feels the nprepared for the worsafford to spend your mway.
Many people will nfrom nursing home insuracially those with low incfew assets, and those wincomes and many assewith low incomes will get The wealthy wont need h
If you purchase long
insurance, try to have somexpenses covered.________________
Attorney Ron Rutz will anstions sent to 2625 RedwiSuite 180, Fort Collins, COemail [email protected]. I
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alse Claims of Cancer Curese U.S. Federal Trade CommissionFTC) recently issued consumerngs about products advertised asr cures, and the FTC told severalanies they cannot mislead peoplealse claims of cures.oducts named by the FTC forng false claims include essiacblack salve, laetrile, and mush-extracts. There is no credible
tific evidence that any of thects marketed by these companiesevent, cure or treat cancer of any
kind, said FTC official Lydia Parnes.The FTC has issued warning
letters to more than 100 companies,mostly those advertising products onthe Internet. Millions of Americansuse products that have not beenadequately researched, said Parnes.
Some products that seem harmlesscan actually do considerable damage,say researchers at the American Institutefor Cancer Research. Antioxidants, forinstance, can interfere with chemo-therapy and radiation treatments. I
ew Test For Staph Infectione U.S. Food and Drugdministration has approved aest that can quickly detect theion MRSA (methicillin-resistantylococcus aureas, or staph infec-that causes so much trouble foral patients.
he test, called Xpert, works inhan an hour. Previous tests tookthree days.his will enable clinicians to
real-time decisions as to the
course of treatment, said Johnop, chief executive officer of
Cepheid, the California company thatmakes the test.
In the past, hospital patients whoacquired MRSA required an averageof 18 additional days in the hospital,according to the journal ClinicalInfectious Diseases. Doctors hope thenew test will allow them to treatMRSA cases sooner, shorten stays andsave money.
About 800,000 patients contractMRSA annually after surgery, costing
the U.S. health care system over $9billion a year. I
ost people over age 75 shouldnot have routine colonoscopiesolon cancer tests, according to at in the Annals of Internal
cine.he recommendation came from
U.S. Preventive Services Taske, an independent group of cal experts. They said riskseigh benefits of such testsse of the possibility of a perfo-colon, infection, and reactions toves in people over age 75.persons medical history and
factors might warrant having theut not in most cases.
he task force also studied threecolon cancer screening tests and
mmended more research be doneem before they are approved.creenings are an X-ray called a
l colonoscopy, a CT colonog-and a stool DNA test.or people 50 to 75, the task force
mmends an annual screening withod test, a colonoscopy every 10
or a combination blood and
flexible sigmoidoscopy every fiveyears. A sigmoidoscopy is less inva-sive than a colonoscopy.
Elsewhere, researchers reported inthe Annals of Internal Medicine that anew DNA stool sample test is muchmore effective than an older version
of DNA testing for colon cancer.This is a very important finding,said Dr. David Ahlquist at the MayoClinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Itcould encourage many more people tohave a test for colorectal cancerbecause the stool test is much lessinvasive than a colonoscopy.
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and the home they built in Sheridanreflected their affluence, with Frenchsilk wall hangings, mahogany wood-work and stained glass windows.
Their house in Sheridan was calledTrails End and years later wasfeatured on TVs American Castles.
In 1914 John was electedWyomings governor. Eula becameone of the most gracious and accom-plished first ladies to occupy thegovernors mansion in Cheyenne.
In 1916 John was elected to theU.S. Senate and they moved toWashington, D.C. where the hand-some couple from the West took thecapital by storm.
Then prominent writer FrancisParkinson Keyes said of Eula: I donot know a woman more generous inaction and outlook, more efficient,more attractive or more active.
John was also respected, and aSenate colleague said of him: Iwould defer to his opinion and accepthis judgment on any given question.
John died while still in office atage 76. But before he died, rumors of
argaret Laybourn
a Wolfjen was born in 1872 andde a horse on her fathers Texasbefore she could walk.t age 7, the spunky and preco- little pioneer told Johnrick, a handsome young
oy working for her father, Imto marry you when I grow up.hn, an orphan like Eulas father,ed the rancher in trailing cattle
Texas to Colorado andming. John later kept in close
with the family who befriended
1891 at Greeley, Colorado,she was 17, Eula married John
rick, who at age 34 owned hisanch.fter a honeymoon to Niagaraand Washington, D.C., theyed to an isolated ranch 55 milesSheridan, Wyoming.here were no electric lights, noar mail service, no femaleanionship. But the plucky Eula
happy riding horses and helping
her husband.She set her mind on educating
herself and her husband, who hadonly gone to grade school. Shelearned German from the bunkhousecook, science from books, and readclassics aloud to John every night.
Johns ambition was limitless,also; and his vision was his greatestasset. He saw the days of open rangeranching disappearing, and he diversi-fied his investments to include oildevelopment and coal mining.
Two children were born to Eulaand John (Rosa May and Manville).Eula taught them to read, ride, shoot,swim and to think for themselves.
When it was time for the chil-drens schooling, the family movedinto Sheridan. Before moving, Eulastudied small talk because she feltthat her years of isolation on the ranchmight put her at a disadvantage inSheridan society.
In their 18 years on the ranch, Eulaand John had acquired the equivalentof a college education through homestudy. Fortune had smiled on them,
his earlier affairs with woto surface back in Wyoming
Eula returned to Sheridof the rumors were so grehumiliation so severe,retreated to Trails End anseclusion until she died in 1
Eulas Sheridan home, noTrail End Historic Si
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u like Steamboat Springs, youlloy Deborah Olsens book,mboat Springs Legends.has many stories about pioneers
amous Olympic skiers like Billy
Buddy Werner and his sisterer Werner.eres an excerpt about a day,ago, when the Werners mother,, met Robert Redford before he
me an actor:The sales girls were all atwitter
a rugged, blond man walkedgh the door of...Hazie Wernersop.
He sauntered up to the counter andpolitely if someone might tell hime he could find Loris Werneres son), a ski buddy he had met.
With a motherly instinct toct her son from strangers,...Haziehe young man to leave his name.d see to it that Loris got thege, and if he wanted to talk toan, hed give him a call.
Bob Redford, the man replied,azie dutifully wrote it down.
The other clerks barely breathed
as he walked out the door. Bob andLoris touched base at the ski area laterthat day...
Robert Redford was one amongthousands of people who stopped infor a visit with Hazie, Steamboatsconsummate hostess, said writer
Deborah Olsen.That incident might have occurredwhen Redford was attending theUniversity of Colorado after 1954.Today, Hazies restaurant on the skimountain is named in remembrance of the woman whose sons, Buddy andLoris Werner, were Olympic skiersand won many events in the 1950s.
So did their sister, Skeeter, whowrote a fine remembrance for theLegends book:
Our family moved here in1941...I was a very lucky little girl,
growing up in the best of two worlds:we lived on a ranch in the mountains,and I came into town for school...
I cherish the friendships I madeas a child...and some of my fondestmemories are of going out with myfather to feed the cattle. In the winter,I followed along behind him on oldhickory skis, staying in the tracks
tories About Steamboat Springsmade by his sled filled with hay.
My dad was an excellent skier.He packed down a ski hill for us at theranch, and wed use it for sledding onour old Montgomery Ward toboggan,too. I got my first pair of skis when Iwas two years old, and my little
brothers werent far behind me...The Yampa Valley evokes specialfeelings for all of us, added Skeeter.Every time I see it when Im coming
down Rabbit Ears Pass, it bto my eyes.
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Big pharmaceutical companies areprotecting their expensive brand-name drugs by keeping cheaper genericdrugs off the market, according to aninvestigation by the European Union.
The companies do that throughseveral tactics that violate antitrustlaws both in Europe and the UnitedStates, said European Union official
Neelie Kroes.The big companies sometimes filebogus lawsuits against generic drugmakers for alleged patent violations totie them up in court for years. They
bribe some generic makecheaper drugs off the mathey file for patents on evingredient in a drugin1,300 patents for one medic
Such practices cost consgovernment programs likebillions of dollars in hiprices. In the United State
at the Federal Trade Cohave said such practiceantitrust laws, but apparcompanies get by with theviolations are difficult to pr
Making Medicines Expensiv
Rapid increases in federal Medicarecosts are prompting Congress toconsider ways of reducing theprograms expenses, which amountedto over $431 billion in 2007,according to Medicare officials.
Analysts say future Medicare costswill be the biggest budget breaker ingovernment if not controlled. Somesuggest making wealthy participantspay more of their costs.
Others suggest allowing thegovernment to negotiate lower drugprices with pharmaceutical compa-nies. Under current law, federal
Medicare officials are not negotiate, which amounts cial benefit for drug comcosts the government mdollars extra.
Some analysts say requse of more generic drugs millions. So could gettingand doctors nationwidcomputerized records instearecords that often cannot bquickly or accurately.
Democrats in Congress for a major battle on Medthe Wall Street Journal. I
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Bogus stem cell treatments arebeing advertised on the Internet,
according to medical researchers atCase Western Reserve University.
Some people who are desperatefor treatment of a serious illness mighttry the procedures, but that would be amistake, say researchers. Numerousclinics in China and other foreigncountries claim to provide stem celltreatments for autism, cerebral palsy,Alzheimers disease, and otherillnesses.
But so far, legitimate stem cell
treatment is limited to aconditions, such as lukemiaeye disorders, say researchefor other treatments abogus. Theres no guaranstem cells are used or whercome from. And medical pdone by unqualified or inedoctors can be life threate
Researchers found awebsites advertising stemments for everything from strokes. The average cotreatments was about $22,0
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Another study confirms that takinghormones for menopause greatlyincreases the risk of breast cancer,according to researchers at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles.
UCLAs Dr. Rowan Chlebowskidirected the research based on thefederal governments large study knownas the Womens Health Initiative thathas been going on for years.
The study of estrogen and progestinpills concluded that women who took
the pills for five years doubled theirrisk of developing breast cancer. Their
risk increased even if thehormones for just a couple o
But the good news is women stopped taking the their odds improved greatwo years.
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Early Days in Fort Collins906 tracks and overhead elec-wires for a trolley system wereructed in Fort Collins. A redtrolley barn was built to house
rolleys at North Howes andy streets.he first trolley line ran fromge Avenue west on Mountainity Park and Grandview
etery. The system was laterded to South College Avenuehen north to the Great Westernr Factory and Lindenmeier
n accident occurred near thefactory when a steam shovel
rolley collided. The trolley wasily damaged, and the motorwas injured. But generally, the
ys were a safe way to travel.he old M108 trolleys were builte Woeber Carriage Company iner, with seats for 44 passen-One-way fares were five centsrides for a quarter. 1919 Fort Collins voted to
hase and operate the system.
The heavy trolleys were replacedwith four smaller street cars built byBirney Standard Safety CarCompany. They were painted darkgreen and yellow, and nicknamed bysome residents the gallopinggoose.
For the next 32 years, the streetcars transported residents; butpeople began driving their ownvehicles, and there were fewerriders. In 1951 the city councildiscontinued the trolley system.
Tracks and overhead wires wereremoved. The city disposed of threestreetcars. But one old car, number21, was donated to the PioneerMuseum. For about 25 years, it satdeteriorating at Lincoln Park.
In 1976 the Junior WomensClub began to restore the old trolley,and in 1977 the Fort CollinsMunicipal Railway Society wasorganized by railroad and historybuffs.
It took many years of volunteerlabor to complete the restoration of
One of the early Fort Collins trolley cars. Photo courtesy of the FortCollins Public Library.
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Caroline Rhymes with Sinll Lambdin
roline Bancroft often toldeople when she fist met them,me Caroline. It rhymes with
in or jasmine. Take your pick.was an unusual way of intro-
ng herself, but she was anual woman. And gin mightbeen the appropriate pick. Shek it, and her six-foot framehandle it.
orn in 1900 in Denver,roft was Colorados mostar early historian. You mightread some of her small history
lets about Baby Doe Tabor,y Brown, racy madams andr characters from pioneerado.he booklets are still available in
st every Colorado bookstorethough she wrote them yearsTheyre popular history, notemic, and more people haveably learned about Coloradory from her than frommics.ancroft was criticized forng fictionalized history,h sometimes had charactersing dialogue she made up. Sheted that.improve history when it seems
al, she told a friend. I put in
uth and the folklore, too.cademic historians object toThey point out that mixing factiction is not legitimate history,hey are right.ut few people can stand to readmic history. Anyone can enjoyrofts books because she told
stories. And she did includeal history; she just didnt kill it
with dullness.She became interested in history
while writing for the Denver Post.Publisher Frederick Bonfils didntquite know what to do with her; sohe suggested she interview some of Denvers early settlers who were
still living. She did, and liked it.She then earned a mastersdegree in history from theUniversity of Denver and begantraveling throughout the state to findghost towns and people who couldprovide stories. She drove a jeepthousands of miles in the highcountry, visiting more historical sitesthan anyone else in her time.
Along the way, she and a friendusually enjoyed some libationstations where they stopped and gotout the gin bottle. She traveled with
both male and female companions.Although never married, she hadseveral suitors.
And she moved in Denvers mostelite social circle, the Sacred 36headed by the wealthy Mrs.Crawford Hill. Bancroft was notwealthy, but her grandfather hadbeen; and he was among the firstsocially elite in Denver.
Her grandfather, Fred Bancroft,was a doctor who came to Denverby stagecoach in 1866 after servingin the Civil War. He became rich
from his medical practice plusinvestments, and was one of thefounders of the Colorado HistoricalSociety.
Carolines father lost that fortunethrough bad investments, alcoholand womanizing. So she had to finda way to earn a living. She found itby writing the little history booklets.
She was one of the few writers in
Colorado who actually made aliving from her writing. She sold thenearly two dozen different bookletsherself to curio shops, bookstoresand tourist shops throughout thestate.
It wasnt a great living, but
enough to allow her to do what shewanted, which was to be the granddame of Colorado history. That gaveher an identity.
It also made her an authorityinher own eyes at least. She openlycriticized other historians if shethought they made a mistake. Thatincluded James Michener, author of the popular book and televisionseries Centennial. Bancroft saidhe made mistakes.
Her friends included some of themost celebrated people of the time:
Mary Coyle Chase, author of thePulitzer Prize winning playHarvey; writer Mari Sandoz andothers. She knew Evalyn WalshMcLean, who owned the famous 44-carat Hope Diamond.
Bancroft overcame minor battleswith tuberculosis and cancer during
her long life of 85 years. Sher sleep in 1985.
Some historians still athe value of her work. Butself-assured, independent wprobably would have simpat them, and raised her glas
This was Bancrofts favportrait of herself, done w
she was age 24. ColorHistorical Society
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ACROSS1. County seat of Washington County named for
the Ohio home town of a Burlington Railroadofficials wife
6. Prevaricator10. Rival of CSU in the Mtn. West Conf.13. Extremely foggy 14. Wash or lotion applied to fleece to kill vermin,
often accomplished by immersing the animals invats
16. Jury, e.g.17. Trail Ridge___.18. Town where Hwy. 14 and 85 intersect19. Washington County locale southeast of #1 across21. ___ weevil22. Saturn model25. How the NL differs from the AL27. Top type29. Salt, to a chemist31. Environmentally sensitive people33. Athletes warm weather worry 35. ___ lips sink ships. (WWII slogan)36. Southernmost of Colorados four mountain parks42. Michael Caine played the title role in the 1966
Academy Award nominated pix with a BurtBacharach score43. The Shirley___ (prominent Denver Hotel in the60s and 70s)
45. Where you can follow the exploits of GeorgeCostanza, Kramer, Elaine, et. al. (2 wds)
50. French fries or slaw, e.g.51. Chaffee County town on the Arkansas River east
of Poncha Springs52. Named for a North Park rancher, this small com-
munity lies south of Walden on Hwy. 12554. Swimmers measure55. From___ to riches56. DEA agent, slangily 58. Pal, down under59. Weld County town east of I-2562. One way indicator66. Logan County seat and home to Northeastern Jr.
College67. Elbert County town east of Elizabeth with an
Indian name68. Country which touches the North Sea as well as
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DOWN1. Cleos ki ller2. Campground host, initially 3. Baseball tally 4. Oil price set ter5. Stocking material7. Weathermans prefix with ba8. Discoverers word9. ___Mountain Pass near Silve10. These usually pay more11. Salmon serving12. Renters option, briefly 15. Phillips County locale betwe
Holyoke17. Minturn neighbor named for
formations20. Annabel Lee poet21. Alternatives to English muffi22. Business ending, often23. Boat propellers24. March Madness org.26. ___ Pass, south of Breckenri27. Chief___exit on I-70 west of
Evergreen28. Queue after Q30. Alphabet trio32. Front Range city known for
roundabouts34. Tartans, e.g.37. Forearm bone38. Vegas beginning39. Dont hear, see or speak this40. Star Wars friend of Luke Sky41. ___ Pinos River in southwes44. Yes spoken by Cary Coop46. Tell a story 47. Moffat County community n
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Laughter is the Best Medicinen 18-year-old Italian girl toldher mother she was pregnant.mother said, You call that manet him over here right now!distinguished middle-aged
showed up driving a Ferrariwearing an Armani suit. He said
parents, If your daughter has, I will give her two shoppingand $10 million. If its a boy,
ets two factories and $10on.But if its a miscarriage, hewhat do you suggest I do?he father said, You gonna try.
man was at his country clubround of golf. He began with
agle on the first hole and a
on the second.n the third hole, he had justd his first ever hole-in-onehis cell phone rang. It was a
r telling him that his wife hadin a terrible accident and wastical condition at the hospital.he man told the doctor to
inform his wife where he was andthat hed be there as soon aspossible. As he hung up, he realizedhe was leaving what was shaping upto be his best ever round of golf.
He decided to get in just acouple of more holes before headingto the hospital. He ended up playingall 18, shooting a 61 and shatteringthe course record.
He was jubilant. Then he remem-bered his wife. He dashed to thehospital, saw the doctor in the halland asked, Hows my wife?
The doctor glared at him andsaid, You went ahead and finishedyour round of golf didnt you! Ihope youre proud of yourself!
While you were out for the pastfour hours enjoying yourself, your
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The man felt so guilty he brokedown and cried.
The doctor snickered and said,Just kidding. Shes dead. Whatdyou shoot?Translations of Womanspeak:
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Nothing: Signals the calm beforethe storm. Nothing means some-thing, and youd better keep lookingbehind you.
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Thats okay: A dangement meaning she intendlong and hard before decyou will pay for this.
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