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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

Upton Sinclair and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Rumble in the Jungle" - Upton Sinclair's Letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Crickets with tin fence, circa 1927. From the Farrington R. Carpenter Family Papers, WH60, Box 2, FF14

The Great Cricket Invasion

Noguchi Family (Denver Post Empire)

Noguchi Family

Yesterday's News Vol. II

Decorating the Denver National Bank Building [art original].

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

“The Very Definition of Heartless Evil”: Ted Bundy in Colorado

John R. Lawson 1915 (Library of Congress)

John R. Lawson (1871-1945)

James Denver and the man he had to kill

Sculptre: York by Margaret Laccarino

York: The American Hero

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