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Denver News

The Italian Murders - A Ghostly Postscript

A man and woman arrange logs for a fire at the City Park automobile (auto) camp for tourists in City Park, Denver, Colorado. The woman holds a pot lid and prepares to cook. Pots and pans hang from a fence post and a canvas tent is set up nearby. Elk lay in a fenced enclosure in the distance.

Free Campground in City Park

Denver's Biggest Bonfire: 125 Classic Cars Torched on Ruby Hill

Free History Resources for Teachers

Title printed in watercolor on artwork.; Signed LL: "Elizabeth Spalding, May 1939"; Notes in ink on verso: "Painted on Mt. Morrison Road overlooking Soda Lake May 1939.; By Elizabeth Spalding 853 Washington Denver Colorado; Title 'Road Overlooking Soda Lake in May'; Invited by Mrs. Caroline Tower [for show?] at Woman's Club Denver [Monday] July 15, 1940 in a group of E.S. water colors"; Number #TIN-0656 on DAM inventory.

Curator's Corner 4: The Conservative Radical

The Rolling Stones On The Front Range, 1965-1978

Mother poses with her infant daughter for a family portrait

The Smithsonian's NMAAHC Hosts "Hometown Treasures" in Denver

Watercolor and gouache painting shows the Eldorado Hotel, at 1249 10th (Tenth) Street, (10th near Larimer) Denver, Colorado. Built by Henri and Katrina Murat, This log building was the first hotel in the Denver area.

Denver’s First Hotel: El Dorado Lost and Found

Canyon Rim, Arizona; Misty Moonlight, Estes Park, Colorado; and Bear Creek Canyon, Denver, Colorado

Curator's Corner 2: Subtle Visions of the West

Decorating the Denver National Bank Building [art original].

Curator's Corner 1: Who Are Those Guys, Anyway?

James Denver and the man he had to kill

James William "Jim" Denver (October 23, 1817 – August 9, 1892) was an American politician, soldier and lawyer. He served in the California state government, as an officer in the United States Army in two wars, and as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California. He served as secretary and Governor of the Kansas Territory during the struggle over whether or not Kansas would be open to slavery. The city of Denver, Colorado, is named after him.

Who was the city of Denver named after? Meet General James W. Denver