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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EG_getting-from-there-to-here_Buena-Vista-CO.html
Native peoples traveled through the Upper Arkansas Valley for centuries before European and American explorers.
Ute, Comanche and other tribes traveled on foot until the arrival of the Spanish and the introduction of the horse in the 1600's.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EF_stagecoach-road-to-riches_Buena-Vista-CO.html
With the discovery of gold in California Gulch in 1860, getting to Oro City (now Leadville) meant an opportunity for fame and fortune.
It would, however, be twenty years before railroad service traversed the Upper Arkansas Valley.
Stagecoach r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ED_the-placers-in-between_Buena-Vista-CO.html
In the late 1800's, transportation of goods and people could be an arduous undertaking.
Gold and silver fever led many to endure travel up the Arkansas River from Canon City to Leadville.
Although arguably the largest and most notorious, Leadv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z90_the-jackson-hotel_Salida-CO.html
The Jackson Hotel was built in 1878 by Henry A. Jackson who left his home in Kentucky looking for a place where his family could escape the turmoil of post-Civil War reconstruction. A former Memphis steamboat captain, Jackson found himself high an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CK2_finding-our-routes-new-faces-along-the-river-pike-explores-the-valley_Salida-CO.html
Marker A:Finding Our RoutesFollowing ancient pathsThe history of Chaffee County as part of the United States began in 1803, with the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France.
But human history was established here centuries earlier. Man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C49_christmas-1806_Salida-CO.html
Frustrated in their attempt to climb Pike's Peak on November 27, 1806, Zebulon Pike and his party of 15 trudged on through South Park looking for the Red River, southern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase. After crossing Trout Creek Pass, the expl…