Index of Names & List of Illustrations
for Bill Brenneman's MIRACLE ON CHERRY CREEK
(World Press, Inc., Denver, CO 1973)
©The Central Bank & Trust Co.
Compiled by Leona L. Gustafson © 2002
Abbott, Emma 72
Abrien, Jesus 25
Alexander, W. A. (Ace) vi, 117
Allison, George (the Candy Man) 101
Anthony, Scott (Major) 65
Anthony, Scott 89
Arnold, Henry 88
Bailey, D. F. (Mayor) 111
Baker, Fred 3
Baker, J. J. 26
Bancroft 40
Bancroft, George W. 39
Bancrofts (the) 44
Barnum, P. T. 56
Barth, William 61
Bates, Joseph E. (Mayor) 57
Bayaud, Thomas J. 25
Bayaud, Thomas 26
Beall, "Gov" 71
Beall, S. W. 25
Beckwourth, Jim 13
Benham, Alex 40
Bennett, Horace 118
Black Kettle 22, 23
Bliss, David 26
Block, Augusta Hauck (Mrs.) 117
Block, Joseph H. ("Josie") 43, 44
Block, Josie 63, 117
Blyth, Lady Anne 117
Bonapart, (the King of Naples) 27
Bonfils, Frederick Gilmer 87
Bowles, Samuel 57
Bridger, Jim 13
Bridgewater, Arthur G. vi
Bridgewater, Arthur 102
Bromfield, Alfred John 82
Brooks, Elwood 1-11, 121, 122
Brooks, Max G. vi
Brooks, Max 7, 8, 10
Brown, G. W. 73
Brown, Henry C. 6, 73, 118
Brown, Sam E. 53
Brunton, David W. 87
Buchanan, James (President) 16
Bull Bear 22
Burton, Billy 53
Burton, Hiram 46
Byers, William Newton 18, 19 (illus.), 23, 35, 46
Cable, Rufus 26
Cantrell, John 14
Carson, Kit 13
Case, A. B. 47
Chandler, J. 26
Chase, Ed (Big Ed) 68, 69 (illus.)
Cheesman, Walter S. 55, 86
Chever, C. G. 46
Chever, Charles G. 63 (illus.)
Chever, D. A. 40, 46
Chever, David 89
Chevers, Charles G. 63, 64
Chevers, David A. 63, 64
Chivington (Col.) 23
Chivington, John M. (Col.) 20, 21
Chucovich, Vaso L. (Chuck) 68
Clarke, James D. 59
Clayton (Meyers), Letitia E. 60
Clayton 59
Clayton, Ed 60
Clayton, George W. 60, 61 (illus.)
Clayton, Thomas 60
Clayton, William L. 60 (illus.)
Clayton, William M. 60
Clayton, William ix
Cleveland, Grover (President) 83
Clifton, J. W. 47
Clinton, S. C. 47
Clough, John A. 96
Cody, Buffalo Bill 57
Colfax, Schuyler (Gen.) 56
Cook, C. A. 28
Coolidge (President) 114
Cooper, C. S. 26
Cox, Charles G. 47
Crawford, Dana (Mrs.) 9
Creel, George W. 87, 88
Curtis, Rodney (death mentioned) 98
Curtis, Rodney H. 59, 77, 80, 89, 91
Custer (General) 54
Daniels, W. B. 65
Daniels, William B. 99
Daniels, William Cooke (Major) 99
Davis, C. C. 40
Davis, Jim vi
Davis, Richard Harding 86
Day, A. R. (Rev.) 38
Dead Eye Dick 69
Dearborn, T. H. 47
DeLano (Mayor) 41, 103
Delano, Amelia 37
DeLano, Myron M. 13, 29, 37
Delanos (the) 38, 44, 99
Denver, James William 24
Dickson, T. C. 26
Dixon, William Hepworth (Rev.) 19
Dodge, Grenville M. (General) 49
Dodge, Henry (Col.) 14
Doherty, Henry L. 68
Doll, H. C. 79
Dolman, G. L. 29
Duffield, Glen (Sheriff) 88
Dunn, J. S. 47
Elbert, Samuel H. 46
Elitch, John 103
Elliott, J. F. 47
Evans (Gov.) 22, 46, 49, 105
Evans, (Governor & Mrs.) 36
Evans, (Mrs.) 35
Evans, John (Gov.) 53
Evans, John (Mrs.) 34 (illus.)
Evans, John M. (Dr.) 21
Evans, John 6, 11, 34, 57, 83, 89, 114
Evans, William Gray 89, 96
Fay, C. S. 26
Ferguson, Louise 82
Field, Eugene 13
Field, Eugene 74 (illus.), 75, 76
Filbeck, Rachel 63
Fillmore (widow) 46, 74
Fillmore, John S. (Major) 21, 38, 59
Fillmores (the) 99
Fincke, L. A. 47
Fish, H. J. 119
Fisher, Mort ix
Fisher, Morton C. 24
Fisher, William Cooke (Major) 105
Ford, H. F. 39
Ford, William R. (Billy) 39
Fremont, John C. 14
Friedman, Lester 119
Fulton, Katie 66
Gallup, F. 47
Gilpin (Governor) 21
Gilpin, William 20
Gottesleben, Peter 74, 109
Graff, Alexander C. ix, 25
Graham, William 36
Grant (General) 38
Grant, Ulysses S. (President) 13
Grant, Ulysses S. 37, 56
Greeley, Horace 26, 27,56, 59, 77
Greenwood, W. H. 55
Gregory, J. 47
Griffin, Annie 66
Griffith, Emily 116
Grundfelter, John 26
Guggenheim, Meyer 72
Guldman, Leopold (death) 119
Guldman, Leopold H. 80
Hall, Frank B. (General) 84
Hall, James 39, 48
Hall, Sylvester 26
Hallack, Charles 64
Hallack, Erastus 64
Harding, B. B. 114
Harrison, Charley 17, 18, 20
Hayden, F. V. (Prof.) 57
Henderson, John D. 26
Herman, Louis 26
Holladay, Ben xi, 66
Holloway, U. B. 46
Holzgrafen, H. 47
Hughes, Bela M. 52
Hungate, Nathan P. 22
Hunt, A. C. 55
Hurlburt, John 100
Johnson, A. S. (General) 14
Johnson, Charles A. 119
Jones, Belle 66
Joslin, John Jay 68 (illus.), 82
Kassler, G. W. 46
Kassler, George W. 59
Kearney, Stephen Watts (Col.) 14
Kershaw, Jeremiah 74
Klein, Oscar H. vi
Klein, Oscar 100, 105, 106, 107
Kocherhaus, Fred 26
Kountze, C. B. 41, 77
Lamoreux, Felix 25
Larimer (General) 15, 23, 27, 73, 113
Larimer, William H. (General) ix, xi, 11, 12
Larimer, William H. H. 23
Left Hand 23
Lewis, John 129
Lincoln (President) 20
Little Bear (Chief) 21
Little Raven (Chief) 20
Londoner, Wolfe and wife 75 (Illus.)
Londoner, Wolfe 46, 54, 75, 76, 81, 82
Long, Stephen H. (Major) 13
Lovell, "Chicken Bill" 71
Marshall, Robert M. 95
Marshall, Willis M. 95, 96, 97 (illus.)
Marshall, Willis 4
Masterson, Bat 18, 69
Matheson, E. S. 87
Mazzulla, Fred vi
McCarthy, William 17
McClelland, William F. (Dr.) 36, 71, 80, 89,
McClure, C. Y. 47
McClure, George W. 41
McClure, W. Park 16, 20
McComber, W. W. 47
McCook, Edward M. (Governor) 57
McFarlands (the) 44
McGaa, William Denver 24
McGaa, William xi, 24
McLaughlin, D. M. 26
McPherson, Aimee Semple 111
Meeker, Nathan 80
Middaugh, W. H. 17
Miller, Morris 120
Ming, John 26
Moffat, David H., Jr. 53, 57, 58 (illus.)
Moffat, David 11, 59, 114
Moore, John C. 20, 28
Murat, Count 26, 77
Murat, Countess 27
Murat, Henry 26
Murat, Katrine 26
Murat, The Countess 27 (illus.)
Nelson, R. J. vi
O'Neill, Jack 16
Orem, J. C. (Con) 26
Palmer, William J. 55
Patterson, Thomas MacDonald 87
Peers (Messr.) 29, 114
Peers, Philip E. ix, 26
Pelzer, Alphonse 79
Perkin, Robert L. vi, 111
Perkins, W. L. 26
Pierce, John (General) 52
Pim (Messr.) 29, 114
Pim, Thomas F. 26
Pollock, Thomas 17
Porter, Eva Rhoades (Mrs.) 117
Price, Sterling (General) 21
Pullman, Louis 87
Rauer, Jacob 81
Rhoads, Harry M. 109
Richardson, George 47
Riethmann, J. J. 26, 73, 89,
Riethmann, John J. 61, 71
Riethmann, L. D. 61, 62 (illus.)
Roberts, William E. 41
Robertson, Nathan 79
Roeschlaub, R. S. (Capt.) 74
Rooker, S. M. (Mrs.) 16
Routt, John L. 81
Russell, Green 26
Sanderson, W. S. 102
Schleier, George C. 46, 62
Schleier, George 76, 89
Schott, Robert W. 2
Scott, Winfield (General) 41
Senter, Gano 100
Seward, William H. 56
Shakespeare, William 72
Sheridan, Phil (General) 57
Sheridan, Philip (General) 38
Sherman, William Tecumseh (Gen) 38
Short, Sidney H. (Professor) 90, 91
Sibley, Henry H. (Conf. Gen.) 20
Silks, Mattie 66
Simpson, George S. 14
Skiff, J. V. 75
Smiley, Jerome (Professor) 57
Smith, Daisy 66
Smith, Jefferson Randolph (Soapy)67 (illus.)
Smith, John 52
Smith, Soapy 69
Smoke, David 27
Snyder, John H. 39
Sopris, Richard B. (Mayor) 80, 81
Sparks, Irma (Mrs.) vi
Speer, Robert W. 68, 87
St. James, Louis 26
St. Vrain, Ceran 13
St. Vrain, Ed 26
Stanley, Henry M. 56
Stark, Professor 18
Steck, Amos 13
Steck, Amos 35, 39
Steck, Amos 89
Steck, Harry 39
Steck, Sarah 39
Stecks (the) 44
Stratton, Winfield Scott 118
Sublette, Andrew 13
Sublette, Milton 13
Tabor, H. A. W. 70, 77, 118
Tammen, Harry Heye 87
Tangney, Leonard vi
Taylor, Bayard 56
Taylor, Thomas (General) 14
Thompson, John 100, 120
Thomson, Cort 66
Totten, Oscar B. 26
Triggs, J. H. 47
Trounstine, Phil 41
Turner, George & daug. Blanche 94 (illus.)
Turner, George E. 94, 95
Uzell, Tom (Parson) 69
Van Wormer, Isaac P. 22
Varnell, Larry vi
Vickers, William B. 28
Vincent, B. T. 35
von Richthofen (Baron) 118, 121
von Richthofen, Walter B. (Baron)81
Vucovich 69
Waite, "Bloody Bridles" 84
Waite, Davis H. (Governor) 84, 85
Walbrach, C. 47
Webb, Del E. 123
Wharton 47
Wharton, J. E. 29
Wharton, J. E. 44
White Antelope 22
Whitman, Walt 56
Whitsitt, Dick (Messr.) 29
Whitsitt, Dick 16
Whitsitt, R. E. ix
Whitsitt, Richard E. 16 (illus.)
Wilde, Oscar 13, 74
Wilhelm, D. O. 29
Womak, Bob 86
Woodbury, Roger W. (General) 64 (illus.), 65, 77
Wootton, Dick (Uncle) 13
Wyatt (Messr.) 29
Zang, Adolph J. 106
Zeckendorf, William 6, 114
MIRACLE ON CHERRY CREEK
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Compiled & © 2002 by Leona L. Gustafson
(Nearly all illustrations used are from the Denver Public Library
Collection)
Map (Sketch) of area covered in book (blocks 74 & 75) x
Elwood Brooks 1
Interstate Trust Building disappears 2-3
New Park Central complex 3
Indian Camp at Cherry Creek and Platte River, 1858 13
House erected 1858 by A. Barker (inset) 14
Map showing earliest buildings 14
E. P. Stout's cabin, 1858 15
Richard E. Whitsitt 16
View of Denver, 1859 17
Charley Harrison. . .best gun in the West 18
William Newton Byers 19
Major John S. Fillmore 21
Waiting for parley with Indian chiefs, 1864 22
William Denver McGaa. . .Denver's first born 24
Home of William McGaa 24
St. John's Episcopal Church in the Wilderness, ca. 1864 25
The Countess Murat 27
Drawing of Denver City and Auraria, 1860 28
Drawing of the area, probably made in mid-sixties 29
Map--Congressional Grat of 1864 30
Cherry Creek the day after the flood of May 19, 1864 31
Distribution of Lots, Block 74 -- 1858-59 32
Distrubution of Lots, Block 75 -- 1858-59 33
Mrs. John Evans 34
Governor John Evans 34
Judge Amos Steck 35
Colorado Seminary 36
Mayor and Mrs. Myron M.DeLano 37
Presbyterian Church 38
The fire laddies from Hook and Ladder No. 1 40
Looking south from Larimer Stree along 15th Street 42
Old Pacific House 43
A. E. Mathews drawing of mid-sixties 43
View north across Block 74 44
Lawrence Street Methodist Church & Colorado Seminary 44
Lawrence Street Methodist Church, 1864 45
1865 nondescript shack lined 14th Street 45
View from 14th and Arapahoe Streets about 1866 46
An 1866 pencil sketch by Mathews--15th Street 47
Photo of 15th Street about 1867 47
Artist's conception as to what Blocks 74 and 75 looked
like in the mid-1870s & a sketch showing
principal identifiable buildings 48
Title in Lots after Congressional Act of 1864-Block 74 50
Title in Lots after Congressional Act of 1864-Block 75 51
The Central Station moved to 1543 Lawrence Street-1876 52
David H. Moffat Jr as young man 58
William L. Clayton 60
George W. Clayton 61
General Roger W. Woodbury 64
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, king of the con men 67
Union Station 1880-1894 68
Big Ed Chase, gambler 69
Joslin Dry Goods store, 1600 block of Lawrence Street 69
The Union Block (2) 73
Eugene Field 74
Grocer-Mayor Wolfe Londoner and his wife 75
The People's Bank Building about 1890 (2) 76
Chamber of Commerce Building (2) 77
Mining Exchange Building 78
Robertson and Doll's carriage manufactory (2) 79
Business block built by Dr. W. F. McClland in 1878 80
Haish Building (1881) 81
Home of the Salvation Army 82
Troops train artillery on City Hall. . . 83
Excite mobs assemble around City Hall. . . 84
Denver University Conservatroy of Music, 1880 85
Old Tramway barns at 13th & Arapahoe Streets 88
Rodney Curtis, father of the Tramway 89
Drawing of Prof. Short's first electric car 90
Short Electric cars near 15th & Lawrence Streets, 1887 90
Three electric cars cross Lawrence St on 15th 91
Cable car near 15th & Lawrence Streets, 1890's 92
Interior of Robertson & Doll Carriage Co. 93
George Turner & daughter Blanche 94
Denver renewal project . . . 1910 96
Willias M. Marshall, a founder of the Central Bank 97
Tramway's car barns 97
D & F tower under construction, 16th & Arapahoe Streets 98
Two views of the "Loop" and Hurlburt's 101
Passenger board cars at the Central Loop 102
Tramway ticket office 103
Tortoni's Restaurant 1500 block Arapahoe Street 104
Aerial view of downtown Denver about 1930 104
Passengers wait at the Arapahoe Street Loop 104
Daniels & Fisher Tower stood tall and proud 105
Interior of three-deck car barns 105
"Mizpah" arch at Union Station 106
Snowstorm of 1913 107
"Moffat Tunnel" built in a snowdrift, 1913 108
Overturned street cars in labor riots of 1920 110
Aerail photo showing Mining Exchange Bldg., etc. 112
Looking north from 1400 blk. of Arapahoe Street, 1910 113
Daniels & Fisher draped for Elks convention, 1911 115
Car 25 leaves for trip to Golden about 1949 115
Aerial view of downtown Denver w/buildings identified 116
Old Miner hoisted down, June 1963 117
June 3, 1950. The end of the street car era in Denver 120
Old Miner dominated skylin for more than 70 years (2) 128
New Park Central complex, Brooks Towers, etc. 129
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