The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories

Index

Index Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations. Unless otherwise indicated, all cities and towns listed in the index are located in Colorado. Adams, Hattie Dorris Mullins, 40, 317n26 Adams, Madeline, 3 Adams, William H. “Billy,” 40, 65, 317n26 Airlie, Earl of, 130, 329n30 Alamosa (township), 66, 198, 209, 214, 250; and railroad, 38, 210, 333n5; Wayside as early name for, 36, 316n22 Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 127, 329n24 Allen, Lizzie, 194–95, 209, 215, 241, 267 Allotment Act of 1887, General. See Dawes Allotment Act American Indians, xxvi–xxxiii; and Blackhawk War, 310n5; and boarding schools, 11, 318n18. See also Apaches; Arapahos; Beaver Creek Massacre; Cheyennes; Comanches; Goshos (Gosiutes, Goshutes); Kiowas; Meeker Massacre; Navajos; Pawnees; Pueblos; Sand Creek Massacre; Shoshones; Sioux; Utes Amick, Emma Daum, xxvii amusements. See entertainment Animas City (township), 201, 210, 214, 335n21 antelope, 115, 117, 129; as pets, 112, 171; plentitude of, 142, 158, 164, 177, 181 Apaches, xxvii Arapahoe County, 33, 59, 84, 148, 330n4, 330n13 Arapahos, xix, xxvii–xxviii, 133; and Left Hand, 88, 326n47, 327n5, 327n9; and Sand Creek Massacre, 69, 324n34 Arkansas River: flooding of, 89; and gold, xxv–xxvi; as leg of Santa Fe Trail, 44, 48, 198, 321n3 Armitage, Susan, xx, xxxiv–xxxvi, xxxvi–xxxviii, xxxix, 310n47, 314n1 Aubrey, F. X., 322n12; death of, 72 Austin, Robert, 63 354 index Ball, William, 279 Baptists, 71, 203, 267 barbed wire, 37, 185, 326n55 Bauer, George, 194, 214–15, 268 Baxter, Oliver Hazard Perry, 49, 318n39 Bean, Owen, 276 bears, 17, 62, 202; dancing, 98; hides of, for trade, 19 Beaver Creek Massacre, xxxiii, 260, 279, 342n109; and Gentner family, 197, 216, 229–30, 258–59, 260–61, 264–65, 268–71, 279, 339n68, 342n109; and Joanna Spalding (Todd), 244–45, 262 Bent’s Fort, 69, 86, 88, 317n32, 325n42 bible school, 128. See also Sunday school bicycling, 239 Big Bend (township), 189–91, 195, 229, 242, 339n67 bison. See buffalo (bison) Blackhawk (township), xxv, 32, 85, 94, 315n12, 315n13 Black Hills sd, 10 blackleg (disease), 161, 175, 331n20 Blakeman, Sarah, xviii, 136 Bobtail Mine, 32, 315n12 Bohlick, Mella McCluer, xxx–xxxi, xxxii, 191–92 Boulder (township), 33, 315n15. See also Boulder City (township) Boulder Canyon, 315n13 Boulder City (township), xxv, 333n44 Boulder County, xxvii, 35; schools, 307n4 Boulder Creek, xxv; naming of, 186, 333n44 brick making, 107–8 Brown, Benjamin B., 97, 326n58 Brown, Dee, xxxvii Brown’s Park, 12, 312n20 Brown’s Spring, 323n30 Buchanan, Lizzie Gordon, 103, 105, 107, 124 Buchanan, Nellie, xv, xix, xxxvii Buckskin Charlie. See Sapiah “Buckskin Charlie” buffalo (bison), xxiii–xxiv, 26–27, 44– 45; absence of, 170, 171; farm, 66; as food, 26, 115, 121; hides, 27, 130; hunting of, 7, 26, 115, 117; sighting of, 67, 90–91, 110, 131, 143–44, 164, 170, 171 buffalo chips: as fuel, 27, 45, 64, 120, 146, 158, 161 Burlington (township), 140, 144, 146, 151, 160, 330n4, 330n8; church meetings in, 169–70, 183 Burlington and Missouri Railroad, 125, 131, 329n32 Butler, Anne, xxxv California Gulch, xxv, 43, 50, 51, 317n29 Cameron, Robert A., 111, 328n14 Camp Apache, 233 Captain Jack (Ute leader), 14, 313n30 Carbonate Camp, 15–16, 313n31 Carson, Kit, 7, 73, 84, 310n6, 322n21 Central City (township), xxv, 32–33, 94, 108, 315n11, 315n13 Cheairs, Sallie J., xxiv, 106, 107, 328n20 Cherry Creek, xxv Cheyenne wy, 58, 112; and railroad, 111, 327n12, 328n18 Cheyennes, xix; hunting range of, xxvii–xxviii; and Left Hand, 88, index 355 326n47, 327n5, 327n9; as perceived threat, 87; and Sand Creek Massacre, 69, 323n28, 324n34 Cheyenne Wells co (township), 143, 331n19; as supply point, 145–46, 330n5 Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, 134 Chicago fire, 58 childbirth, 141, 195, 205, 222, 224, 231, 233, 248, 268; and practical doctors, 234; in specific locations, 16, 60, 74, 156, 200, 242, 279; of twins, 161 Chipeta, 56, 320n56 Chivington, Jane, 85 Chivington, John, xxxiii, 69, 81, 324n34 Chivington, Sarah, 81, 84, 324n32, 324n35 chs. See Colorado Historical Society (chs) church, xix, 60, 156, 185, 196, 210, 229, 259; construction of, 208–9, 211; dressing for, 121; Episcopal, 135–36; getting to, 115, 145, 163; lack of, 151, 168, 183; Methodist Episcopal, 145, 161, 168–69, 170; ministers, 168, 210–11; Presbyterian, 123, 129; and school, 123; and settlers’ desire to attend, 123, 147; venues, 124, 155, 169, 177, 211 Cimarron Route. See Santa Fe Trail Civil Works Administration (cwa), xv, xix, xx–xxiii, 283, 288, 291; and...