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Ghost Town
In NorthernColorado
LongsPeak 
PioneerClimbers
Outlaws
In EarlyColorado
Skiing
SteamboatSprings
 
Cowboy Artists
Charlie Russelland Others
LongsPeak Climber
 AnnaDickinson inthe 1800s
EarlySettlers
Fort CollinsGreeley andOther Places
Money,Health andNews
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Local Attractions • Scenic Places • History • Money • Health • News
 
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T
he Colorado Legislature hasfinished its work on the statebudget for next year.We increased funding for OldAge Pension cash benefits by $3.4million.We were also able toappropriate over $1.2 million inadditional community services forretirees, largely from increasedfederal revenues.We were able to pay back $2.2million borrowed from our stateVeterans Trust Fund during therecession of 2001. This fundprovides key services forservicemen and women, and assis-tance to them in applying for andreceiving veterans’benefits.We have also begun a pilotprogram to increase support to ourcounty Veterans Services officers.They are the key contacts for ourveterans.We were able to increase supportof our state’s colleges and universi-ties by over 8.5 percent.This is keyfor our state’s students accessinghigher education, and it allows ourregion to benefit from the many jobspin-offs from a trained workforceand research activities.I am most pleased that we wereable to begin to address the thou-sands of disabled Coloradans onwaiting lists for services they areeligible for.We have also addedfunding to serve an additional 1,000Coloradans who cannot affordneeded mental health treatment.Our state general fund stands at just over $8 billion.That’s a lot of money, but it serves almost 5million Coloradoans with roads,education, police protection, healthcare for the poor and disabled, ourcourt system, and protection of ourenvironment and natural resources________________
You can call Sen. Johnson in Fort Collins at 223-8045.
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T
he cover picture for this month’sSenior Voice shows an Indian in apainting done by early Western artistHenry Farny.The painting appears in a recentbook, “Out of the West: The GundCollection of Western Art,” whichcontains paintings by Farny, FredericRemington, Charles Russell andseveral other Western artists.The book contains biographicalinformation on each artist as well astheir color paintings. It includesworks by some of the first artists whocaptured the Old West on canvas.Henry Farny spent his boyhoodaround Indians after his parentssettled in western Pennsylvania in1853. He trained himself as an illus-trator, working for newspapers,“Harper’s Weekly” magazine andother publications.In 1879 he illustrated an editionof the classic “McGuffey Reader” thatwas used in America’s pioneerschools. He also did circus posters,cartoons and anything that wouldmake him a living.But his main interest wasAmerican Indians, and he eventuallybecame well known for depictingthem on canvas. In 1894 he traveledto Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to sketch thenotorious Apache chief Geronimo,who was imprisoned there.Farney is often compared to thetwo giants of Western art, CharlesRussell and Frederic Remington.Some of their works are also includedin this book.Charles Russell is considered thepremiere cowboy artist for goodreason. He lived the life of a cowboyafter he went from St. Louis toMontana at age 16 in 1880.His parents were well off and senthim to good schools, but youngCharlie ignored the teachers and spentall of his time drawing pictures of cowboys and Indians. His parentsfinally had to let him go West. Theythought he would get his fill of fron-tier hardships and return home, but helived in Montana for the rest of hislife.As a young cowboy, he oftentraded his sketches for drinks insaloons. And when he drank, he said,“it was no secret.” He was a wildyoung man who thoroughly enjoyedraising hell in the untamed West.Luckily, a beautiful young womannamed Nancy Cooper married him in1896 when he was 32. She was aheadstrong girl who realized he waswasting his artistic talent, and shequickly set about to change that,becoming his manager, arranging artexhibits, sales and building his career.He readily admitted that she madehim successful.Later in life, Russell liked to tellstories about his cowboy years, and hewas very good at it. Famed storytellerWill Rogers said Russell “could tell astory better than any man that everlived.”Frederic Remington was different.His Western art became famous, buthe depicted a West he didn’t knowfirst hand. He lived all of his life inthe East, traveling occasionally to theWest to get photographs and ideas forhis art.But he was fascinated by the earlyWest and was determined to keepmemories of it alive through hispaintings and sculptures. He alsowrote Western stories that werepopular.By the time Remington died at age48 in 1909, he had succeeded increating a romantic, mythic view of the West that still survives today.When we think of a cowboy, it isprobably one who looks like aRemington figure—rugged, inde-pendent, hard working and fun-loving.But not the man you want yourdaughter to marry.This colorful 142-page, hardcoverbook is full of art and stories thatanyone who likes the West will enjoy.Its size is 11 inches by 10 inches. It isavailable for $34.95 at bookstores orfrom Western Edge Press, 126Candelario Street, Santa Fe, NM87501; email westernedge@santa-fe.net.
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Henry Farny’s painting from the book “Out of the West.”
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