To the Pikes Peak country in 1859 and cannibalism on the Smoky Hill route / Henry Villard -- Our new road / Helen Hunt Jackson -- First official visit to the cliff dwellings / William Henry Jackson -- Fraeb's last fight / LeRoy R. Hafen -- Recollections of a trip to the San Luis Valley in 1877 / Albert B. Sanford -- The kingdom of Bull Hill / Emil W. Pfeiffer -- The hermit of Pat's Hole / Edgar C. McMechen -- Irwin, a ghost town of the Elk Mountains / Muriel Sibell Wolle -- Hunting antelope with dogs / A.R. Ross -- Jack Sumner and John Wesley Powell / Wallace Stegner -- Pearl Harbor and one mother's heartbreak / Clara May Morse -- The wizard of East Pikes Peak : Nikola Tesla's experimental station / Richard Grove -- Port Stockton, outlaw / Maxine Benson -- Three governors in a day / Marjorie Hornbein -- A land unto itself : the Western Slope / Duane A. Smith -- The cowboy : reflections of a western writer / Louis L'Amour -- Mari Sandoz in Colorado / Caroline Bancroft -- Peyotism in Colorado / Omer C. Stewart -- William D. Haywood : "the most hated and feared figure in America" / Thomas J. Noel -- Bent's Fort : outpost of manifest destiny / David Lavender -- Tragedy on Longs Peak : Walter Kiener's own story / James H. Pickering -- "Bristling for their rights" : Colorado's women and the mandate of 1893 / Stephen J. Leonard -- The real West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Comrades of color : buffalo soldiers in the West / Quintard Taylor -- Los betabeleros (the beetworkers) / José Aguayo -- A whiskey train and a doughnut day : coming of age on the eastern Colorado plains / Keith A. Cook -- The last back fence in town : the assassination of Alan Berg / Clark Secrest -- "The Napa Valley of beer" : Colorado's brewpub phenomenon / Richard A. Kreck -- Written in blood : the Soule-Cramer Sand Creek Massacre letters / Gary L. Roberts and David Fridtjof Halaas -- The demons of Elizabeth Tabor : mining "dreams and visions" from the matchless / Judy Nolte Temple -- Delta's king of kings : the Egyptian Theatre and the Bank night craze / Larry Borowsky -- History and memory : the story of Denver's Chinatown / William Wei -- Colorado's cycliennes / Modupe Labode.