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2 • January 2009 • The Senior Voice

About Medicare
By
U.S. Senator
Ken Salazar

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pain.
ur health care system is broken,
and Americans are feeling the
Washington needs to address
this. We can start with some practical
solutions that members of both polit-
ical parties should agree on.
First, we should expand the
WHEN IT’S TIME TO MAKE Children’s Health Insurance Program.
when buying a car, you should have
straightforward information on the
health care plan you’re choosing.
Fourth, we should reduce costs by
deploying electronic health records
and making better use of information
technology. In many ways, health care
bureaucracy is stuck in the dark ages.
Fifth, we should allow the re-

a change...
Right now millions of children are
uninsured. We should immediately
pass bipartisan legislation to help
cover them.
importation of prescription drugs to
lower costs for consumers. It is an
outrage that Americans don’t have
access to the same high-quality, safe

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Second, we should grant Medicare prescription drugs that are available for
the ability to negotiate with drug far less in Canada.
companies to bring down the cost of I will be active in these efforts in
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allows states to charge low-
income Medicaid patients premiums
medical services. State and federal offi-
cials agree but say the change is needed
to control rapidly rising Medicaid costs
and higher co-payments for their and discourage patients from using
health services. emergency rooms for routine care.
Co-payments will not be much Many Medicaid patients are immi-
for the poorest patients, only about grants. The program also covers
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Medicare Coverage Varies

M any Medicare patients do not
know that the program will pay
for some treatments in one state but
not another.
For instance, a new prostate cancer
treatment called CyberKnife is covered
by Medicare in New Hampshire but
not across the border in Vermont.
This mainly affects new treat-
ments like CyberKnife, which is not
covered in Colorado, Wyoming and
15 other states. States decide if the
treatment is too experimental and
does not have a long enough history
of success.
CyberKnife is a new radiation
treatment for prostate cancer that is
more convenient than traditional
procedures, requiring only five days
of treatment instead of eight weeks.
Some doctors say it is a great
improvement; others say we do not
know enough about its safety or
long-term effects and consider it
“investigational.”
Each state has a Medicare
contractor that determines what treat-
ments will be covered. The
contractors are units of private insur-
ance companies. I

Colorado Ghost Towns
Tincup in the late 1800s. Colorado Historical Society.
By Bill Lambdin
C olorado has many ghost towns
that are fun to discover when
you’re hiking or driving in the
mountains, and they can put you in
touch with the state’s colorful past.
Two of them are Tincup and Saint
Elmo.
Tincup is northeast of
Gunnison, about 12 miles south of
Taylor Park Reservoir on the
Cumberland Pass Road (or 26
miles north of the town of Pitkin).
Tincup was a wild, wicked
mining town controlled entirely by
owners of the saloons, gambling
halls and whorehouses. The town
went through seven sheriffs in a
few short years.
The first sheriff, known as Old
Man Willis, was told: “See
nothing, hear nothing, do nothing.
The first arrest you make will be
your last.”
Willis soon resigned because he
received no pay. His successor,
Tom Lahay, jailed several people
and was fired.
The third sheriff was gunned
down by Lahay. The fourth was
shot by the owner of Frenchy’s
Saloon, one of the most notorious
dives in early Colorado.
The fifth sheriff, Jack Ward,
quit to become a preacher. The
sixth, Sam Micky, went insane and
was committed to an asylum.
The seventh was shot. Only the
eighth sheriff managed to last out
his term.
It was 1860 when, according to
early residents, a prospector named
Jim Taylor dipped his tin drinking
cup in a stream here and saw
flakes of gold in the cup. Some
people said that was how the town
of Tincup got its name.
By 1882 Tincup had 3,000 resi-
dents, 20 saloons and enough
whorehouses for an army. Business
was booming, especially at the
undertaker’s place. The town had
four cemeteries.
One visitor was awakened one
morning when someone fired eight
shots into his tent. He never knew
why.
The mines began to play out
quickly, and by 1890 Tincup was
in decline. It slumbered for years,
but it was located in such a scenic
area that people began building
summer cabins there in the 1900s,
and today it is a popular vacation
spot.
Saint Elmo was over the
Continental Divide east of Tincup,
southwest of present Buena Vista
and 17 miles west of the town of
Nathrop.
Founded in 1880, Saint Elmo
was both a mining camp and supply
town for other camps in the area. In
the mid-1880s, its population
reached nearly 2,000 but declined
rapidly after a fire destroyed much
of the town in 1890.
In its heyday, Saint Elmo was
so crowded that men slept on
saloon floors and any place they
could get out of the weather.
One visitor recalled asking a
hotel owner for separate rooms for
himself and a friend. The owner
replied, “I’ll give you a bed, and
you can draw a chalk mark around
it for a room.”
Early Colorado was a tough,
hardscrabble place.
________________
COVER PICTURE: Two young
foxes in the mountains. Courtesy of
the Grand Lake Chamber of
Commerce. See their website at
www.grandlakechamber.com. I
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4 • January 2009 • The Senior Voice
A Blizzard in
Greeley, 1913
(Editor’s Note: Greeley historian
Hazel Johnson wrote the
following story years ago.)
By Hazel Johnson
“G reeley Isolated By Worst
Snowstorm in Its History”
was the headline December 5,
1913.
Business was at a standstill—
traffic paralyzed, wires down,
trains running hours behind time.
All social events were cancelled.
It started snowing on December
1 and kept at it until December 5.
Greeley wound up with a total of
nearly 33 inches of snow. Heavy
and wet, it caused considerable
damage to buildings.
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Street car service was abandoned,
the streetcars left standing where
they stopped. The fire truck,
loaded with apparatus, would have
been unable to reach a fire quickly,
if at all.
Out at Roggen where the John
Klug ranch was located, 500 cattle
were starving after being
marooned from a herd of 1,100.
Cowboys tied four horses, one in
front of the other, and managed to
break a trail for the cattle, saving Pioneers in a sod house on the plains.
495 of them. Photo Hazel E. Johnson Collection.
A “nice miserable” snow was
the way Stow Witwer of the SLW Antelope and jackrabbits gathered They made a fun time of it.
ranch described it. No blizzard around haystacks for food. Merchants modeled snow in front
with it—snow so crusted that you By December 6, the sun was of their businesses, built tunnels and
could ride a horse over it. shining and trains were creeping displays that entertained shoppers.
Snow was up to the second through. Greeley businessmen It was a tough winter, but not as
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 The Senior Voice • January 2009 • 5

Early Poudre Canyon

By Peggy Hunt Pioneer Norman Fry recalled
that, even for good stage drivers, the

T ravel up the Poudre Canyon in

the 1800s was difficult and
sometimes dangerous.
It was a day’s ride by horse or
wagon from Fort Collins to
Livermore, and another day to reach
the canyon at Rustic.
A road was not cut through the
narrow rock walls of the lower
Poudre until 1920; so early travelers
had to go to The Forks and
Livermore, take the the Red Feather
Lakes Road west, then go south
over Pingree Hill to reach Rustic
and the upper Poudre Canyon.
Shortly after 1880, Luke
Voorhees began operating a stage
line on that route from Fort Collins
toward Walden. He did it because
the mining towns of Lulu City and
Teller City had been established
west of Cameron Pass.
Vorhees ran a daily stagecoach
pulled by six horses. By changing
teams every 12 or 15 miles, the
stage could make the trip over
Cameron Pass in one day. But it was
a long day and a rough ride.
trip was a tricky business: “The one-
track wagon road was nothing to
brag about...just literally the width
of a wagon track...It was quite an art
to drive a single rig over the road
without upsetting.”
The stage also delivered mail to
several post offices. Livermore post
office opened in 1871. Another
opened at Chambers Lake in 1880,
Rustic in 1880, and Kinnikinik in
1882.
Stages could not run in deep
winter snows, so mail had to be
delivered by men wearing snow-
shoes or riding on a bobsled pulled
by a horse. In 1881, John McNabb
often snowshoed from Chambers
Lake post office, over Cameron
Pass, to Teller City near Gould to
deliver mail to miners.
It was a hazardous trip in those
high mountains where an avalanche
or wild animal could mean sudden
death to a man walking alone.
Freezing to death could be equally
threatening. McNabb lived through
it, mainly because he was a strong,
Cameron Pass above Poudre Canyon. Senior Voice photo.
determined pioneer.
In 1913-1914, a blizzard isolated
Poudre Canyon from December
until May. All roads were closed,
and the small mountain settlements
were cut off from the rest of the
world for months, except for snow-
shoe or bobsled travel.
Things were better when Stanley
Steamer automobiles came along in
the early 1900s. But not always. In
1912, a group of travelers pulled their
car onto the edge of the canyon road
to let a team and wagon pass. The car
slid off the side and tumbled down,
spilling its passengers over the cliff.
Today we still follow the same
Poudre Canyon route pioneers did in
the 1800s. In fact, Indians used the
route centuries before white settlers
arrived, and prehistoric Folsom
people used it 10,000 years ago.
The Folsom people hunted with
stone spear points attached to wooden
shafts, hoping to see a deer or elk that
would feed their family. They also
paused sometimes to admire the river
as it tumbled down this magnificent
canyon and glistened in the sunlight
below clear, blue skies. They listened
to the breeze gently blowing through
the pine trees, and they felt the warm
sunshine on a beautiful summer day,
just as we do.
We travel an ancient trail up the
Poudre. I

Women’s
Heart Attacks
W oman who have a severe heart
attack are twice as likely to die
in a hospital as men with the same
condition.
That means women are “under
treated” for severe heart attacks by
hospital doctors, said a report in the
medical journal Circulation.
Researchers studied more than
78,000 heart attack victims in 420
U.S. hospitals.
They found that women were less
likely to receive beta blocker drugs,
reperfusion therapy to restore blood
flow, or angioplasty within 90 minutes
of arriving at a hospital. They were
also less likely to receive aspirin.
The type of heart attack studied
was a myocardial infarction
involving a complete blockage of a
coronary artery. For that, women
often do not have the chest pain or
pressure men experience, and the
lack of such warning signs might be
one reason women are under
treated.
But the study should be a
wakeup call to hospitals, said
researchers. I
6 • January 2009 • The Senior Voice
Buy Long-Term Care Insurance?
By Ron Rutz, Attorney worth the protection gained under The average stay in a nursing
Legal Correspondent the policy? home is about 14 months. Thus for
If you are over age 70, the odds about 80 percent of the population
Q: I met with several long-term care of being in a nursing home are about over 70, nursing home exposure will
insurance salespeople, but I am 20 percent you never will be in one; be for less than a year. However, for
confused about what I have been 20 percent you will stay for three the other 20 percent, the stay is
told. Any suggestions? months or less; 20 percent you will significantly longer, pulling up the
A: Two basic questions need to stay for six months or less; 20 average to 14 months.
be answered: Is the fear of losing percent you will be in a nursing Medicare will pay for up to three
everything because of nursing home home for a year or less; and 20 months of skilled nursing home
expenses realistic? Is the cost of percent you will stay for more than a care. Thus many people qualify for
long-term care insurance premiums year. at least part of that assistance period.
Let’s say that a person is in a
nursing home for 14 months, quali-
Take this opportunity to interact with an income expert who fies for two months of Medicare
has been helping people create the retirement they choose for help, has a monthly income of
over 15 years! Glen will focus on Overcoming the Obstacles $3,000, and the nursing home costs
to Securing Your Future Retirement Income and the $6,000 a month. That person could
current resources and opportunities available for that purpose. end up paying $40,000 for the 14-
month stay.
One of the many issues to be discussed is the effect the
However, remember that for 80
shrinking dollar has on the way we plan for retirement, as
percent of the population over the
well as the realistic amount of income that can be potentially age of 70, the amount will be less,
drawn from one’s retirement assets. since the odds are that they will be
in a nursing home for less than a
year.
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Retirement Income Thus, I recommend coverage for
two years, depending on the health
and assets of a person. Also,
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Medicare, you will have another
opportunity to apply.
Open season for Medicare Part B
enrollment runs from January 1 until
March 31, 2009. If you miss this
deadline, you will have to wait until
2010 to apply.
The high cost of keeping up with inflation Part B covers some medical
expenses not covered by Medicare
Amount required to maintain $100 in purchasing power over Part A (hospital insurance),
the period 1978 – 2008.
including doctors’ fees, outpatient
hospital visits, and other medical
services and supplies.
When you first become eligible
for hospital insurance (Part A), you
have an initial enrollment period of
seven-months in which to sign up
for Part B. After that, you have to
pay a higher premium unless the
Source: June 2008 – U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Inflation Calculator, www.bls.gov/cpi/. reason you declined Part B was
because you were covered through
depending on income, an average
monthly coverage of around $3,000
to $4,000 should work.
I recommend that you exceed the
foregoing only if you have reason to
believe that you will be part of the
20 percent who will have a nursing
home stay of more than a year, or if
you are a belt-and-suspenders type
of person who feels the need to be
prepared for the worst and can
afford to spend your money that
way.
Many people will not benefit
from nursing home insurance, espe-
cially those with low incomes and
few assets, and those with high
incomes and many assets. Those
with low incomes will get Medicaid.
The wealthy won’t need help.
If you purchase long-term care
insurance, try to have some in-home
expenses covered.
________________
Attorney Ron Rutz will answer ques-
tions sent to 2625 Redwing Road,
Suite 180, Fort Collins, CO 80526,
email rutz@ronaldrutz.com, phone
223-8388. I
an employer’s group health plan.
You are given another opportu-
nity to enroll in Part B during the
general enrollment period each year
from January 1 to March 31. But for
each 12-month period that you are
eligible for Part B and do not sign
up, the amount of your monthly
premium increases by 10 percent.
• Medicare is made up of four parts:
• Part A helps pay for inpatient care
in a hospital or skilled nursing
facility, some home care, and
hospice care.
• Part B helps pay for doctors’ serv-
ices and many other medical
services and supplies that are not
covered by the hospital insurance.
• Part C (Medicare Advantage) allows
you to receive all of your health care
services through one provider. This is
available in certain areas.
• Part D (Prescription Drug
Coverage) helps pay for prescription
medicines. Some low-income
people can get help paying for Part
D premiums and medicines. I
 The Senior Voice • January 2009 • 7

Colon Cancer Tests

M ost people over age 75 should
not have routine colonoscopies
for colon cancer tests, according to a
report in the Annals of Internal
Medicine.
The recommendation came from
the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force, an independent group of
medical experts. They said risks
outweigh benefits of such tests
because of the possibility of a perfo-
rated colon, infection, and reactions to
sedatives in people over age 75.
A person’s medical history and
other factors might warrant having the
test, but not in most cases.
The task force also studied three
new colon cancer screening tests and
recommended more research be done
on them before they are approved.
The screenings are an X-ray called a
virtual colonoscopy, a CT colonog-
raphy, and a stool DNA test.
For people 50 to 75, the task force
recommends an annual screening with
a blood test, a colonoscopy every 10
years or a combination blood and
flexible sigmoidoscopy every five
years. A sigmoidoscopy is less inva-
sive than a colonoscopy.
Elsewhere, researchers reported in
the Annals of Internal Medicine that a
new DNA stool sample test is much
more effective than an older version
of DNA testing for colon cancer.
“This is a very important finding,”
said Dr. David Ahlquist at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. It
could encourage many more people to
have a test for colorectal cancer
because the stool test is much less
invasive than a colonoscopy.
The colonoscopy is still the most
accurate test, but the new DNA stool
sample is much improved. In studies,
it detected 40 percent of cancer cases
and serious polyp growth. The older
stool test detected only 20 percent of
cancer cases.
The new test is available now and
will be improved even more within the
next year or so, said researchers. More
than half of American adults have not
had a colorectal cancer test. I

False Claims of Cancer Cures

T he U.S. Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) recently issued consumer
warnings about products advertised as
cancer cures, and the FTC told several
companies they cannot mislead people
with false claims of cures.
Products named by the FTC for
making false claims include essiac
teas, black salve, laetrile, and mush-
room extracts. “There is no credible
scientific evidence that any of the
products marketed by these companies
can prevent, cure or treat cancer of any
kind,” said FTC official Lydia Parnes.
The FTC has issued warning
letters to more than 100 companies,
mostly those advertising products on
the Internet. Millions of Americans
use products that have not been
adequately researched, said Parnes.
Some products that seem harmless
can actually do considerable damage,
say researchers at the American Institute
for Cancer Research. Antioxidants, for
instance, can interfere with chemo-
therapy and radiation treatments. I

New Test For Staph Infection

T he U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has approved a
new test that can quickly detect the
infection MRSA (methicillin-resistant
staphylococcus aureas, or staph infec-
tion) that causes so much trouble for
hospital patients.
The test, called Xpert, works in
less than an hour. Previous tests took
up to three days.
Cepheid, the California company that
makes the test.
In the past, hospital patients who
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8 • January 2009 • The Senior Voice
Unusual Pioneer Woman
By Margaret Laybourn
E ula Wolfjen was born in 1872 and
rode a horse on her father’s Texas
ranch before she could walk.
At age 7, the spunky and preco-
cious little pioneer told John
Kendrick, a handsome young
cowboy working for her father, “I’m
going to marry you when I grow up.”
John, an orphan like Eula’s father,
assisted the rancher in trailing cattle
from Texas to Colorado and
Wyoming. John later kept in close
touch with the family who befriended
him.
In 1891 at Greeley, Colorado,
when she was 17, Eula married John
Kendrick, who at age 34 owned his
own ranch.
After a honeymoon to Niagara
Falls and Washington, D.C., they
returned to an isolated ranch 55 miles
from Sheridan, Wyoming.
There were no electric lights, no
regular mail service, no female
companionship. But the plucky Eula
was happy riding horses and helping
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her husband.
She set her mind on educating
herself and her husband, who had
only gone to grade school. She
learned German from the bunkhouse
cook, science from books, and read
classics aloud to John every night.
John’s ambition was limitless,
also; and his vision was his greatest
asset. He saw the days of open range
ranching disappearing, and he diversi-
fied his investments to include oil
development and coal mining.
Two children were born to Eula
and John (Rosa May and Manville).
Eula taught them to read, ride, shoot,
swim and to think for themselves.
When it was time for the chil-
dren’s schooling, the family moved
into Sheridan. Before moving, Eula
studied “small talk” because she felt
that her years of isolation on the ranch
might put her at a disadvantage in
Sheridan society.
In their 18 years on the ranch, Eula
and John had acquired the equivalent
of a college education through home
study. Fortune had smiled on them,
By
Margaret
Laybourn
and the home they built in Sheridan
reflected their affluence, with French
silk wall hangings, mahogany wood-
work and stained glass windows.
Their house in Sheridan was called
Trail’s End and years later was
featured on TV’s “American Castles.”
In 1914 John was elected
Wyoming’s governor. Eula became
one of the most gracious and accom-
plished first ladies to occupy the
governor’s mansion in Cheyenne.
In 1916 John was elected to the
U.S. Senate and they moved to
Washington, D.C. where the hand-
some couple from the West took the
capital by storm.
Then prominent writer Francis
Parkinson Keyes said of Eula: “I do Eula’s Sheridan home, now the
not know a woman more generous in Trail End Historic Site.
action and outlook, more efficient,
more attractive or more active.” his earlier affairs with women began
John was also respected, and a to surface back in Wyoming.
Senate colleague said of him: “I Eula returned to Sheridan. Effects
would defer to his opinion and accept of the rumors were so great, and her
his judgment on any given question.” humiliation so severe, that she
John died while still in office at retreated to Trail’s End and lived in
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By Bill Lambdin
I f you like Steamboat Springs, you’ll
enjoy Deborah Olsen’s book,
“Steamboat Springs Legends.”
It has many stories about pioneers
and famous Olympic skiers like Billy
Kidd, Buddy Werner and his sister
Skeeter Werner.
Here’s an excerpt about a day,
years ago, when the Werner’s mother,
Hazie, met Robert Redford before he
became an actor:
“The sales girls were all atwitter
when a rugged, blond man walked
through the door of...Hazie Werner’s
ski shop.
“He sauntered up to the counter and
asked politely if someone might tell him
where he could find Loris Werner
(Hazie’s son), a ski buddy he had met.
“With a motherly instinct to
protect her son from strangers,...Hazie
told the young man to leave his name.
She’d see to it that Loris got the
message, and if he wanted to talk to
the man, he’d give him a call.
“Bob Redford,” the man replied,
and Hazie dutifully wrote it down.
“The other clerks barely breathed
Old barn below Steamboat’s ski runs.
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as he walked out the door. ‘Bob’ and
Loris touched base at the ski area later
that day...
“Robert Redford was one among
thousands of people who stopped in
for a visit with Hazie, Steamboat’s
consummate hostess,” said writer
Deborah Olsen.
That incident might have occurred
when Redford was attending the
University of Colorado after 1954.
Today, Hazie’s restaurant on the ski
mountain is named in remembrance of
the woman whose sons, Buddy and
Loris Werner, were Olympic skiers
and won many events in the 1950s.
So did their sister, Skeeter, who
wrote a fine remembrance for the
“Legends” book:
“Our family moved here in
1941...I was a very lucky little girl,
growing up in the best of two worlds:
we lived on a ranch in the mountains,
and I came into town for school...
“I cherish the friendships I made
as a child...and some of my fondest
memories are of going out with my
father to feed the cattle. In the winter,
I followed along behind him on old
hickory skis, staying in the tracks
The Senior Voice • January 2009 • 9
made by his sled filled with hay. down Rabbit Ears Pass, it brings tears
“My dad was an excellent skier. to my eyes.”
He packed down a ski hill for us at the
ranch, and we’d use it for sledding on
our old Montgomery Ward toboggan,
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was two years old, and my little page book with many photographs,
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Early Days in Fort Collins
I n 1906 tracks and overhead elec-
tric wires for a trolley system were
constructed in Fort Collins. A red
brick trolley barn was built to house
the trolleys at North Howes and
Cherry streets.
The first trolley line ran from
College Avenue west on Mountain
to City Park and Grandview
Cemetery. The system was later
extended to South College Avenue
and then north to the Great Western
Sugar Factory and Lindenmeier
Lake.
An accident occurred near the
sugar factory when a steam shovel
and trolley collided. The trolley was
heavily damaged, and the motor
man was injured. But generally, the
trolleys were a safe way to travel.
The old M108 trolleys were built
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Denver, with seats for 44 passen-
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or six rides for a quarter.
In 1919 Fort Collins voted to
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The heavy trolleys were replaced
with four smaller street cars built by
Birney Standard Safety Car
Company. They were painted dark
green and yellow, and nicknamed by
some residents the “galloping
goose.”
For the next 32 years, the street
cars transported residents; but
people began driving their own
vehicles, and there were fewer
riders. In 1951 the city council
discontinued the trolley system.
Tracks and overhead wires were
removed. The city disposed of three
streetcars. But one old car, number
21, was donated to the Pioneer
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In 1976 the Junior Women’s
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Caroline Rhymes with Sin
By Bill Lambdin
C aroline Bancroft often told
people when she fist met them,
“Call me Caroline. It rhymes with
sin, gin or jasmine. Take your pick.”
It was an unusual way of intro-
ducing herself, but she was an
unusual woman. And gin might
have been the appropriate pick. She
drank it, and her six-foot frame
could handle it.
Born in 1900 in Denver,
Bancroft was Colorado’s most
popular early historian. You might
have read some of her small history
booklets about Baby Doe Tabor,
Molly Brown, racy madams and
other characters from pioneer
Colorado.
The booklets are still available in
almost every Colorado bookstore
even though she wrote them years
ago. They’re popular history, not
academic, and more people have
probably learned about Colorado
history from her than from
academics.
Bancroft was criticized for
writing “fictionalized” history,
which sometimes had characters
speaking dialogue she made up. She
admitted that.
“I improve history when it seems
logical,” she told a friend. “I put in
the truth and the folklore, too.”
Academic historians object to
that. They point out that mixing fact
and fiction is not legitimate history,
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She became interested in history
while writing for the Denver Post.
Publisher Frederick Bonfils didn’t
quite know what to do with her; so
he suggested she interview some of
Denver’s early settlers who were
still living. She did, and liked it.
She then earned a master ’s
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University of Denver and began
traveling throughout the state to find
ghost towns and people who could
provide stories. She drove a jeep
thousands of miles in the high
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than anyone else in her time.
Along the way, she and a friend
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Although never married, she had
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founders of the Colorado Historical
Society.
Caroline’s father lost that fortune
through bad investments, alcohol
and womanizing. So she had to find
a way to earn a living. She found it
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nearly two dozen different booklets
herself to curio shops, bookstores
and tourist shops throughout the
state.
It wasn’t a great living, but
enough to allow her to do what she
wanted, which was to be the grand
dame of Colorado history. That gave
her an identity.
It also made her an authority—in
her own eyes at least. She openly
criticized other historians if she
thought they made a mistake. That
included James Michener, author of
the popular book and television
series “Centennial.” Bancroft said
he made mistakes.
Her friends included some of the
most celebrated people of the time:
Mary Coyle Chase, author of the
Pulitzer Prize winning play
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52. Named for a North Park rancher, this small com- 39. Don’t hear, see or speak this
munity lies south of Walden on Hwy. 125 40. Star Wars friend of Luke Skywalker
SHOP WEDNESDAYS, WHEN THE 54. Swimmer’s measure 41. ___ Pinos River in southwestern CO
55. From___ to riches 44. “Yes” spoken by Cary Cooper
CURRENT WEEK’S AD AND THE 56. DEA agent, slangily 46. Tell a story
PREVIOUS WEEK’S AD OVERLAP. 58. Pal, down under 47. Moffat County community near the Wyoming
59. Weld County town east of I-25 line named for a homesteader
ENJOY A DAY OF VIRTUALLY 62. One way indicator 48. Eastwood climbed this in a 1975 film
TWICE THE AMOUNT OF SAVINGS. 66. Logan County seat and home to Northeastern Jr. 49. Indisputable evidence, briefly
College 53. Larimer County settlement at the confluence of
67. Elbert County town east of Elizabeth with an the North Fork of the Big Thompson and the
All Natural Meat, Fresh 68.
Indian name
Country which touches the North Sea as well as 57.
main river
Gang member
Seafood and Produce. the Baltic Sea (abbr.) 58.
59.
Many restaurant menus deny using this
Fighter in the Korean War
60. Dir. traveled to get from Sterling to Julesburg
No Preservatives Added. ANSWERS 61. Alcohol server’s concern
63. Fish eggs
Consistently Checked 64. Be in debt
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Laughter is the Best Medicine

A n 18-year-old Italian girl told
her mother she was pregnant.
The mother said, “You call that man
and get him over here right now!”
A distinguished middle-aged
man showed up driving a Ferrari
and wearing an Armani suit. He said
to the parents, “If your daughter has
a girl, I will give her two shopping
malls and $10 million. If it’s a boy,
he gets two factories and $10
million.
“But if it’s a miscarriage,” he
said, “what do you suggest I do?”
The father said, “You gonna’ try
inform his wife where he was and
that he’d be there as soon as
possible. As he hung up, he realized
he was leaving what was shaping up
to be his best ever round of golf.
He decided to get in just a
couple of more holes before heading
to the hospital. He ended up playing
all 18, shooting a 61 and shattering
the course record.
He was jubilant. Then he remem-
bered his wife. He dashed to the
hospital, saw the doctor in the hall
and asked, “How’s my wife?”
The doctor glared at him and
The doctor snickered and said,
“Just kidding. She’s dead. What’d
you shoot?”
Translations of Womanspeak:
Fine: A word women use to end
an argument when they are right and
you need to shut up.
Nothing: Signals the calm before
the storm. Nothing means some-
thing, and you’d better keep looking
behind you.
Loud sigh: This is actually a
statement that’s misunderstood by
men. It means she thinks you are an
idiot and wonders why she is
wasting her time talking to you.
That’s okay: A dangerous state-
ment meaning she intends to think
long and hard before deciding how
you will pay for this.
Go ahead: This is a dare, not
permission. Don’t do it! I

again.”
A man was at his country club
for a round of golf. He began with
an eagle on the first hole and a
birdie on the second.
On the third hole, he had just
scored his first ever hole-in-one
when his cell phone rang. It was a
doctor telling him that his wife had
been in a terrible accident and was
in critical condition at the hospital.
The man told the doctor to
Tell ADVERTISERS
said, “You went ahead and finished
your round of golf didn’t you! I
hope you’re proud of yourself!
“While you were out for the past
four hours enjoying yourself, your You saw them in
wife has been fighting for her life.
It’s just as well you finished that
round because it will probably be
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your last. For the rest of her life, she
will require ‘round the clock care, THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
and you’ll be her caregiver!”
The man felt so guilty he broke
down and cried.

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