Canon City Colorado History

When Coal became King in southern Colorado, it took men with Grit to get the coal out of the mines.  In this episode we touch on the miner and some of the conditions he faced 

Step back into Fremont County's rowdiest chapter....when Canon City went Dry, the Adamic Brothers created their own Party town  this is the story of Prospect Highs

1878-1880 a battle raged in the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas and in courtrooms across the west.  A story of how a little Scrapper of a man faced a Railroad Goliath and Won.    The Denver and Rio Grand Railroad Verses the Corporate giant Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad.  In the story of the expansion of the west, there is not a story that matches the Royal Gorge War

Anton Woode was only 11 years old when he was sentences to Colorado State Penitentiary.  This is the story of his crime and his life 

In !874-1881 the Lake County War raged in the little town of Centerville Colorado.  It not a War lie you would think,, so listen to this podacast on how a handful of men took over everything in Chaffe County

A couple of short stories form the Mining Camp of Fairplay Colorado  

1891 the Denver Rio Grand is stopped and robbed at gunpoint, Famous Lawmen Tom Horn and Doc Shores track down the highwaymen in Indian territory  A true story of adventure, and humiliation 

January 1900,  3 men and a boy escape the territorial prison after the murder of Night Captain Rooney  

On December 4th, 1888 The Murderous Outlaw George Witherell is Stretched out from a telegraph pole on West Main Street in Canon City Colorado This story is about all the events that led up to the Mob mentality that gripped the Frontier town of Canon City

Canon City 1865, The town experiences a renewal but not without big problems...  Indians on the plains, Outlaws in the hills, and Indians collecting rent, 3 short stories of the Canon City experience

The year is 1863 and the communities and people who life in southern Colorado are gripped in fear as the murderous rampage of the Espanozas unfolds.......

Canon City is plotted in 1860 by a German Immigrant.  We talk about his contribution and the story of the first Hanging of a horse thief

We visit about what happened in 1840-1855. Indian battles, gruesome murder, massacres, mountain men, farms and all the good stuff

A discussion on the beginnings of Southern Colorado. With characters like Kit Carson, Charles Autobees Matt Kincaid, William and Charles bent buzzards roost, Ute, Comanche, and Cheyenne Indians, the Arkansas river, whiskey, smuggling, and adventure.

Introduction into the history podcast for the Cañon City Colorado area