Beyond the Great Divide : 101 True Stories of

Abbott Fay, Colorado's noted historian and author of I Never Knew That About Colorado, shares 101 unique stories of places and people during Western Colorado's early days.

Did you know that:
-- Several explorers claimed a wooden sailing ship was found near Red Cliff in 1879 stuck in ice in a cave filled with crystals and gold?
-- Delta women went on strike in the 1880s, refusing to cook evening meals until sidewalks were built and streets paved?
-- Silverton sprouted the first nationally recognized "cowboy band" in 1885?
-- In 1885, elephants pushed a train over Boreas Pass -- the world's highest railroad crossing?

Plus ninety-six other amazing stories . . .

Part One Slithery Trails and the Devil'S Elbow

A Cemetery Which Vanished

10

(2)

Colorado's Youngest Volcano

12

(1)

How Treasure Mountain Got Its Name

13

(2)

Wild Whereabouts along the Winding Dolores

15

(2)

Red Cliff's Magnificent ``Crystal Cave''

17

(2)

Those Cramped and Slithery Trails

19

(2)

Gambling and Dancing for God

21

(2)

Elephants Crossing the Rockies

23

(1)

Curious Stops on the Roaring Fork Line

24

(1)

The Monster Who Devoured West Breckenridge

25

(2)

Negotiations at the Devil's Elbow

27

(1)

A Shocking Event on Electric Pass

28

(2)

Highest Fort in North America

30

(2)

Miracles at the Mount of the Holy Cross

32

(2)

Maybell's Old Victory Hotel

34

(2)

The Miraculous Pines of Silverton

36

(2)

Fort Lewis Had Several Lives

38

(4)

Part Two Salute to the Ute

How the Utes View Creation

42

(2)

The Dire Prophecy of Spiquet Pah

44

(2)

Placing a Curse with a Camera

46

(2)

Fighting Braves Driven Over the Edge

48

(1)

Why Ignacio Left Ignacio

49

(2)

Tabernash and Billy Cozens

51

(2)

The Beaver Creek Massacre

53

(2)

Americanization of Native Americans

55

(2)

Making Southern Utes into Modern Farmers

57

(3)

Part Three Spiritualists and Sages

Sensible Settlement of a Ute-Navajo War

60

(2)

A Toothache Led to a Discovery

62

(2)

Jittery Days Following the Ute Uprising

64

(1)

Spiritualist Miner of the Master Key

65

(2)

A Southwest ``Northwest Passage''

67

(2)

Garwood Judd: ``The Man Who Stayed''

69

(2)

Pat Dawson's Terrible Coffee

71

(2)

The Nimble Fingers of the Lay Postmaster

73

(2)

Mr. Osgood's Amazing Oldsmobile

75

(2)

The Secret Travels of a Monarch?

77

(2)

The West's Most Extraordinary Hermit

79

(2)

Pulleys and Weights for Broken Hips

81

(2)

Leaving the Wilderness Wild

83

(2)

``Sage of the Sagebrush''

85

(2)

The Wandering Jew of the Rio Blanco Country

87

(2)

Counting Sheep for 65 Years

89

(3)

Colorado's Toughest Game Warden

92

(2)

Escaping Annihilation at Crystal City

94

(2)

When Otto Got Married

96

(2)

Unsung Heroines of Education

98

(2)

The Old Man Who Took to the Air

100

(2)

The Camp Hale Pipe Smokers

102

(2)

Buster Brown Ended up in Craig

104

(2)

Part Four Four Great Escapes

Crawling to Cochetopa Pass

106

(2)

A Barefoot Three Hundred Mile Run

108

(2)

A Crucial Ski Race Near Steamboat Springs

110

(1)

Stranded on a Mountain Ledge

111

(3)

Part Five Creative Cowboys and Stubborn Women

Luring the Gullible

114

(2)

When the Thundering Herd Crossed Mancos Valley

116

(2)

The Great Colorado Land Rush

118

(3)

Colorado's Capitol Building Came from Aberdeen

121

(2)

Those ``Dobes'' near Crawford

123

(2)

The Telluride Pinheads

125

(2)

Delta Women Wielded Their Power

127

(2)

Discovering Stones that Burned

129

(3)

Cuisine at the Black Canyon Hotel

132

(1)

Busy Days on the Unitah Line

133

(2)

The Great Cricket War

135

(2)

Skimming over the Continental Divide

137

(2)

A Sure-Fire Real Estate Deal Almost Failed

139

(1)

Those Old Rocks at a Durango Cafe

140

(2)

Colorado's Most Elaborate Ski Tow

142

(1)

The Great Garmesa Experiment

143

(2)

Inundated and Buried Alive

145

(2)

Boating Down from the Mine

147

(1)

Mythical Structures

148

(1)

Rangely Field Gets an Injection

149

(1)

The Hare-Krishna Cowboys

150

(3)

Colorado's Canny Canine Convention

153

(2)

A Christmas Tree in the Desert

155

(3)

Part Six Ordeals by Fire and Ice

Lethal Avalanches in the San Juan Mountains

158

(3)

Underground Holocausts

161

(2)

The Great Gunnison Die-off

163

(2)

Colorado's Largest Grassland Conflagration

165

(1)

The Rockies on the Move

166

(4)

Part Seven Civilizing the Slope

The Canon Pintado Art Gallery

170

(2)

Cold-Shouldering a Tuba

172

(1)

America's Original Cowboy Band

173

(1)

When Delta Had Operas

174

(2)

Scholars and Musicians at Gunnison

176

(2)

The Perry-Mansfield Dancing Camp

178

(2)

When Broadway Came to Grand Junction

180

(2)

Grand Junction's Problem with Dalton Trumbo

182

(2)

The Erudite and Musical Invasion of Aspen

184

(2)

Western Colorado's Largest Art Creation

186

(4)

Part Eight Sham Duels and Outrageous Outlaws

Lake City's First Duel

190

(1)

Another Surprising Duel

191

(2)

That Sloppy Hanging in Lake City

193

(2)

The Tragedy at Grand Lake

195

(2)

Queen of the Cattle Rustlers

197

(2)

``Not Much Damage Done''

199

(2)

Ray Simpson's Remarkable Marksmanship

201

(2)

A Beheading Near Bedrock

203

(2)

Those Grisly Soap Kettle Murders

205

(2)

A Gangster Resort at Sweetwater Lake

207

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