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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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