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experienced citizens throughout the
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support from you over the years.
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and serving in the private sector in with folks that I will miss the most as
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Pioneers Near Estes Park
Early campers near Estes Park (not Lord Gore’s group). Hazel Johnson Collection.
By Bill Lambdin
I f you drive Trail Ridge Road in
Rocky Mountain National Park,
stop at the Gore Range Overlook.
Some interesting stories are associ-
ated with the mountains you see
there.
The range was named for Sir
George Gore, an Irish aristocrat
who in 1855 organized a lavish
hunting party through these moun-
tains and into Wyoming.
It was so lavish that Lord Gore
probably had the first outdoor
camper in the Rocky Mountains—
his bedroom was built into a
wagon.
Each day, his valet supervised a
bucket brigade of servants who
filled Gore’s bathtub. Some people
said that, when he was hung over
or lazy, Gore had his servants herd
elk or deer toward the front of his
dining tent, where he shot them
without walking into the woods.
Early reports said that, in the
evening around the campfire, Gore
read Shakespeare to famous scout
Jim Bridger, who served as guide
for the hunting trip. No one knows
if rugged frontiersman Bridger
enjoyed the readings.
But we do know that Bridger
named this mountain range for
Gore. Bridger also named Gore
Creek for him; it runs through the
town of Vail at the south end of the
Gore Range.
Early writers said Gore’s
hunting party included several of
his wealthy friends, 50 servants,
over 100 horses and mules, six
supply wagons, and several
months’ supply of whiskey.
He also had carpeted silk tents
and several young women along.
According to the stories, Gore and
his group of “hunters” shot every-
thing in sight, killing several
thousand animals and leaving most
of them to rot in the woods.
One report said a band of Sioux
became outraged when they saw
the slaughter. The Indians
surrounded Gore’s party while they
were hunting in the woods and took
all their horses.
The Sioux also stripped the men
of their clothes, according to the
report; and Lord Gore wandered
through the naked wilderness for a
while, until a friendlier band of
Indians found him and his party.
One of the highest peaks in the
Gore Range is Mount Powell,
named for explorer John Wesley
Powell. A Civil War veteran with
only one arm, Powell was the first
to raft the Colorado River through
the Grand Canyon, which is why
Lake Powell is named for him.
In 1868, Powell was also one of
the first white men to climb Longs
Peak near Estes Park. He and
Rocky Mountain News editor
William Byers followed an ancient
Indian trail to the top of Longs.
Powell realized Indians had
climbed it before them, but doing it
with one arm was still quite a feat.
Powell later served as the first
director of the U.S. Geological
Survey. When he and a companion
reached the peak named for him in
the Gore Range, they left two items
in a tin can on the summit—a piece
of paper with their names on it and
a biscuit.
The companion said Powell had
made the biscuit and thought it a
suitable memento to leave on the
mountain. They were sure it was
hard enough to last for eternity.
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Famous Stage Station

Editor’s Note: Fort Collins historian
Josephine Clements wrote the
following story years ago.
By Josephine Clements
most famous stagecoach operator.
Spotswood was born in Virginia in
the late 1830s. When he was a boy, the
family moved to Missouri, which was
then the jumping-off place for the West.
In 1860 he was crossing the plains

I n 1862, the notorious Jack Slade ran

the Overland Stage station at
Virginia Dale north of Fort Collins,
just south of the Wyoming state line.
He named it for his wife, Virginia,
made it his headquarters as division
agent for the stage line, and instituted
stage service through the area.
His tenure in this idyllic setting,
however, was abruptly terminated
when he went on a drunken spree at
Fort Halleck in Wyoming. The stage
line’s owner, Ben Holladay, fired
Slade in November, 1862.
A worthier man was chosen to take
over and carry on the difficult work of
keeping the Overland stages running
from Denver to Salt Lake City.
That man was Robert J. Spotswood,
who bossed the division through the
turbulent years of the late 1860s.
When Colonel Spotswood died in
1910 in Littleton, Colorado, the
Littleton Independent newspaper
mourned his passing as Colorado’s
with wagon freight trains. From that,
he went to work as a messenger with
the express stage from Atchison,
Kansas, to Denver.
Spotswood came from Denver to
replace Slade at Virginia Dale. Ansel
Watrous, in his 1911 “History of
Larimer County,” recounted
Spotswood’s relief when Slade
“bowed to the will of the company
without a word” and “turned over
everything in good shape.”
Though Slade and his wife had
resided at Virginia Dale, there is no
evidence that Spotswood chose to do
so. Rather, he seems to have
constantly traveled the route from
Denver to Virginia Dale and across
what is now southern Wyoming.
William S. Taylor and his wife came
to be station agents at Virginia Dale.
It was Spotswood who had to deal
with the Indian depredations of 1864-
65. While there was little trouble with
the Indians in the Cache la Poudre
An early artist’s drawing of a Spotswood stage.
Littleton History Museum.
valley, in those perilous years the driver and was the hunter at Virginia
Indians were exceedingly troublesome Dale supplying the station with fresh
at Virginia Dale and to the northwest game, was hit by an Indian arrow.
at the stations strung out across Enos was taken to the station at
southern Wyoming. Cooper Creek, the next station west,
Many were the stories of and he was buried there in a small
Spotswood’s encounters with Indians cemetery on the hill above the old
at the stage stations. In the summer of station building.
1865, the Indians were especially Spotswood defended the stage line
dangerous along the stage line in and its property as best he could,
Wyoming, between Virginia Dale and keeping the coaches rolling. He
Salt Lake. earned a reputation as a fearless
In one skirmish west of Laramie, Indian fighter as well as a capable and
Jim Enos, who had been a coach devoted stage line operator. I

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Medicare Drug Plan 2009

M any low-income Medicare drug
plan participants are unaware
that they might have to find a new
is below $15,600 for individuals or
$21,000 for couples (assets limited to
$12,000 individuals; $23,970
health insurance plan by January 1 or couples).
lose their free Part D drug plan Unfortunately many insurance
coverage. companies are raising their premiums
If their present insurance plan for 2009 beyond Medicare’s $21 limit.
increases its premium to more than This will force many people to find
$21 a month, they will have to find a another plan. If they do nothing, they
new plan that charges less or pay the will automatically be assigned to their
higher premium. That’s because 2008 plan.
Medicare limits low-income partici- Some senior advocates say Medicare
pants to plans with low premiums. should change this awkward system.
People qualify for free Medicare For information, see www.benefits
drug coverage if their annual income checkup.org. I

Medicare Change Proposal

B ush administration officials want
Medicare to pay only for the
cheapest treatments and medicines
would approve only cheaper alterna-
tives.
Medicare officials want the change
possible, and they asked a federal in order to reduce costs of the rapidly
court to approve the policy change. expanding healthcare program, and
But the court ruled against the they say they will continue to pursue
change, saying the officials do not the change through other means.
have the authority to require Medicare Judge Henry Kennedy, Jr., ruled
patients to get the “least costly alterna- against the change in Federal District
tive” for their healthcare. Court in Washington, D.C. He said
The change would have meant laws already exist that determine
that patients might not receive the what services Medicare will pay for,
latest medicines or treatments their and officials are trying to subvert the
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Estate Planning Information

By Ron Rutz, Attorney
Legal Correspondent
Q: You have written about Wills, but
what non-legal things should I think
about doing?
A: Everyone needs a Will and
Durable Powers of Attorney. If it has
been several years since those docu-
ments have been reviewed with your
attorney, even if you feel no changes
have occurred, set an appointment.
You may be surprised.
Be sure you know where your
original Will and four Durable Powers
of Attorney are and that the personal
representative and agents you desig-
nated are still your choices and that
they still want to serve.
Determine if you need a Living
Will in light of the medical authoriza-
tion in your comprehensive Durable
Power of Attorney. Also realize that a
Living Will and non-resuscitation
directive are not the same. The Living
Will controls shutting off the life
support machines. Non-resuscitation
means no actions will be taken to
bring you back if something happens.
If you have a non-resuscitation docu-
ment, discuss the ramifications with
your attorney.
I am not a fan of a living trust to
avoid probate in Colorado. But if you
have one, be sure that it works, that you
have a pour over Will and Durable
Powers of Attorney. All the assets need
to be in the trust, unless you fully under-
safety deposit box at a bank, add at
least one person to the signature card,
even though you might have a
Durable Power of Attorney that also
could be used to access the box. Be
sure to let the person on the signature
card know where the keys are located.
Keep your legal documents, espe-
cially originals, in one place. If you
have a safe or strong box, be sure to
tell your agent or personal representa-
tive and be sure they know where to
find it and can access it.
If you have home security devices,

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An Indian Woman: Ute Susan By

Arlene
Ahlbrandt

S hawsheen, known as Ute Susan,

was a young Indian maiden
captured by her tribe’s enemies, the
language and habits.
Sgt. William C. Carroll’s family
took her into their home. But one night
It was later learned that she was
the sister of well-known Chief Ouray.
She eventually became the wife of
Arapahos, in 1860. during a dance at LaPorte she ran away Chief Johnson.
It was believed Chief Niwot and and turned up in Central City. Later in 1879 some Utes killed all
his tribe kept her captive for three The governor sent soldiers to the white men at the White River
years. escort her to her own tribe in western Indian Agency and captured two
Settler J.N. Hollowell wrote that Colorado. The name of Ute Susan was women and children. Ute Susan
in June of 1863 he woke in his cabin given her by Major S. Whitely, an helped save the lives of those women
in the Big Thompson valley to find Indian agent. and children. I
himself surrounded by Indians. The
only word they spoke was “swap.”
They wanted to trade Ute Susan for
his hat and a looking glass.
Hollowell didn’t trade. The
Arapahos were angry but did not do
Hollowell any harm.
The Indians spread trouble in the
area, and a contingent of cavalry was
sent to subdue them. The soldiers
climbed a bluff where they saw the A drawing of Ute Susan done
Indians in a commotion.
years ago by a man named
They were camped beside the
N.J. Wiley.
Poudre and Platte rivers near what
later became Greeley. The soldiers her and took her to their camp at
came upon them as they were ready LaPorte near present-day Fort Collins.
to burn the girl tied to a tree. She had been with the Arapahos so
The soldiers interceded, rescued long that she had acquired their

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Story from a
Greeley Pioneer
(Editor’s Note: Greeley historian
Hazel E. Johnson wrote the
following story years ago.)
By Hazel Johnson
were living in Nebraska when gold
fever struck her father and the
family moved to Colorado in 1895.
“Mining days were a sometime
thing; sometimes we’d be up and
sometimes down,” she recalled.

B essie Horton was an early

Greeley resident whose parents
“Sometimes we’d have a new
piano. Six months later, someone

Holida y
r Ev ent A settler’s home in the 1800s. Hazel Johnson Collection.

Chee would come and take away the

piano, depending on Father ’s
success in the gold field.
“Once he made a strike that
netted $45,000. We slept on feather
beds. We had ingrain carpets with
straw under them. Mother renewed
the straw each spring.
“Then tragedy struck when
Father was killed in a 100-foot fall
When: down a mine shaft. It was up to
Thursday, December 4, 2008 Mother to manage then.
“She took in washing for one
5:00 - 8:00 PM, Open House thing. My brother and little sister
would pick up laundry in our little
Where: wagon from some of the fancy
Manno’s Grille at Collindale Golf Course ladies.
“Mother also assisted a doctor
1441 E Horsetooth Road, Fort Collins on confinement cases. If the doctor
was there when needed, fine. If
Food: Appetizers and Desserts not, Mother delivered the babies.
“We also kept other children in
our home. Once we were keeping a
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Christmas with him. Later the
mother came to get the children.
My mother told her the ex-
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“She asked Mother to go with
her to his home. When the woman
demanded the children, the house-
keeper flew into a rage, picked up
a pistol and shot my mother
through the heart. The woman
grabbed the children and ran.
“Now it was up to us children
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“A friend helped my brother
buy a horse and got him a job
going from mine to mine each day
collecting ore samples. The day he
made the last payment on the
horse, someone shot and killed the
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About Medicare Part D AARP Health Insurance

By Michael Hollis, Director
Social Security Office, Greeley
prescription co-payments.
Some examples where your
income may be higher include if
A Senate Finance Committee investi-
gation said some health insurance
plans sponsored by AARP used decep-
against high medical costs,” said
Grassley. “The products may leave
consumers seriously in debt if they
tive marketing techniques to sell need intensive medical care.”

T he open season for enrollment

in the Medicare Part D prescrip-
tion drug program is November 15
to December 31.
While all Medicare beneficiaries
can participate in the prescription
drug program, some with limited
income also are eligible for extra
help to pay for monthly premiums,
annual deductibles and prescription
co-payments.
In 2009, that extra help will be
worth an average of $3,900. To
figure out whether you are eligible
for the extra help, Social Security
needs to know your income and the
value of any savings, investments
and real estate (other than the house
you live in).
To qualify you must be receiving
Medicare and also have income
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Cheyenne Con Man

By
Margaret
Laybourn

B ob Knetzer came to Cheyenne in

1946 at the height of the post-
WWII automobile famine. He was a
handsome, imposing figure in his
hand-tailored suits.
He brought half a dozen bank bags
stuffed with cash, which he put in the
Plains Hotel safe when he registered.
He also brought a gorgeous young
dancer and reportedly married her
shortly after arriving.
They had a son at Cheyenne’s
hospital, and he filled her room with
flowers. They moved into the Hynds
Boulevard apartments; their neighbors
became fast friends and introduced
them to Cheyenne society.
Knetzer also made business friends
with the most influential men in town,
including Tracy McCraken, owner of
the newspaper and radio station; and
Rudy J. Hoffman, scion of a wealthy
pioneer family, the acknowledged
leader of Cheyenne’s “good old boys”
club.
Knetzer was, he said, seeking
investments in a dude ranch he had
recently purchased in Cody. He
boasted of oil wells and his profitable
automobile dealership in Edwardsville,
Illinois.
To a few favored friends, he offered
a new Chevrolet or Cadillac at cost
with a deposit of only $1,500 cash.
Delivery was promised in 90 days and
the deal was sealed with a handshake.
The cash drawer in his office desk was
said to be overflowing.
He carried a roll of “Benjamins” Cheyenne’s historic governor’s mansion still stands.
worth $5,000 and peeled them off to Wyoming History Museum.
pay cash for everything. He gave
extravagant dinners and hosted a “I’ve been in the company of many and had given cash and a handshake to
reception for Governor Tom Dewy. men of wealth who were considered seal the deal.
During Frontier Days in 1947, he big spenders, but never have I seen Knetzer was indicted for embezzle-
gave a dinner-dance at the Plains Hotel anyone approaching Knetzer’s style.” ment and sentenced to five years in
for 400 people. The cost of the Frontier Days party was prison. Locals read of his machinations
Having delivered Cadillac convert- in the thousands. in The Saturday Evening Post, Time,
ibles to many Hollywood stars at the Shortly after the extravaganza, the and True Crime magazines.
same incredible deal, he asked for the Knetzers disappeared from Cheyenne But the folks in Cheyenne who had
Goldwyn Girls, a dozen starlets who and filed for bankruptcy in been conned refused to embarrass
did PR work for a studio, to come to Edwardsville, Illinois, listing debts of themselves by listing their losses. The
Cheyenne. They attended the rodeo over $3 million to country bumpkins Cheyenne chapter on the Knetzer
and rode in the parade. and sage businessmen alike who were caper ended with no one ever knowing
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Book About the Real Old West

By Bill Lambdin mine exactly what artifact they have, of Regis College (in Denver). Father The author spent five years writing
where it came from, and how old it is. A Bilgery began to excavate the site with this 477-page book and traveled thou-

I f you like the history of Indians and

Stone Age people in our area, you
might enjoy the recent book “Projectile
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instance, because it allows them to deter-
few other books have attempted to do
that, but they did not cover all of the
major sites or contain the many color
the assistance of some of his students
when they discovered a large projectile
point in amongst the bones...Realizing the
sands of miles to get photographs and
information from private collections and
public institutions. In addition to
photos and information that make identifi- significance of this find, he turned the producing an attractive, helpful book, he
cation more accurate and easy. work over to the Denver Museum of has made a major contribution to the
Among the sites covered in northern Natural History, who continued the exca- history of the West and our area.
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Local Events and Exhibits

Red Feather Lakes Library The group has performed for 42 years.
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groups, book discussions, and more. 3 pm, at First United Methodist
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