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View of the Denver Municipal Trap Club clubhouse at Sloans Lake Park in Denver, Colorado. The adobe style building has wooden vigas and a sign that reads: "Denver Municipal Traps".

That building on the Southwest corner of Sloans Lake was once the Denver Municipal Trap Club

View of two miners working in an underground coal mine, Lafayette, Colorado. One man squats and uses his pickaxe on a chunk of coal, the other holds an unidentified piece of equipment. An empty ore cart is next to them.

For Colorado coal miners, the canary in the coal mine was actually a mouse

Shows a copy of the April 23, 1859 Rocky Mountain News, Vol.1, No.1, it's first edition. The paper is staged and clipped on a board for the photo. Under the banner "The Mines And Miners Of Nebraska;" headlines read: "The Opening Of Japan," "Alphabetical Conundrums," "The World Without A Sabbath," "Communications Received By The Nebraska Immigration Society," "Yankee Visit To Carlyle."

Is this the first edition of the Rocky Mountain News? How to tell if you've got the real deal or an RMN reprint

View of 15th (Fifteenth) (F) Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the wood and brick business district buildings read: "Broadway Store Dry Goods & Clothing Wholesale & Retail", "Tappan & Co.", "Chemicals Paints Oils Brushes & Glass", and "Drugs". Lawrence Street Methodist Episcopal Church is in the distance.

Downtown Denver burns to the ground: The Great Fire of 1863

Painting of the corner of Blake and 15th (Fifteenth) streets, in Denver, Colorado. Shows covered wagons, people, and false front businesses. Signs read: "Meat Market, Shaw-Bailey & Co.," "Keith & Bond, Auction, Commission & Storage," "Daniels & Brown," "Platte House," "Ford's Barbershop," "Heatley Chase," "[?] Beer," and "Empire Bakery."

It had to happen sometime: Denver's first major crime

How do librarians work from home? (Part 1: Desert Island Books)