Go Broncos
The Denver Broncos take on the KC Chiefs in a Sunday night game. They only have one loss between the two of them. Should be a good football game. Broncos and Chiefs sounds like cowboys and Indians, but there are not any Indians and very few cowboys in Murder in the Rockies even though the story takes place in Denver in 1890.
Denver in 1890 was the supply center for the Rocky Mountain west and was home to a population of nearly 107,000 hardy souls. Incidentally, there were a few Indian wigwams scattered around the edge of town and in the immediate vicinity. And nobody played football.
Events
G. Eldon Smith will do a book signing and a chat about Murder in the Rockies at the Old Firehouse Bookstore in Fort Collins, Colorado on February 15 at 2:00 to 3:00 P.M.. If you are in the area, drop by, and say hello. We are old friends who haven't met yet. We can swap stories about what it was like in the old days when CSU changed its name from Colorado A&M to Colorado State University and had an enrollment of 4,300 (as I remember it.) Sorry to say, the Coeds were known as the Aggie Baggies. One coed for four male students made CSU a haven for husband hunting. If you disagree, we can discuss it Feb. 15 the day after Valentine's Day.
Excerpt
Defler turned and snarled. “You best stay away from Lilly
LaRue! She’s mine!”
Still on his knees, the rancher remained defiant. “I’ll kill you,
you son of a bitch.”
The bartender saw many barroom fights when he was a
customer. But now he was in charge and didn’t know quite what
to do. The owner told him about serving drinks—not about
refereeing fights. Who is going to pay for that chair? he thought.
He pondered for a minute and then poured himself a whiskey,
and another. Then he poured a round on the house.
This isn’t the only job in town, the bartender decided as he
poured himself another shot, vowing he would get back on the
wagon the next day.
The Denver Broncos take on the KC Chiefs in a Sunday night game. They only have one loss between the two of them. Should be a good football game. Broncos and Chiefs sounds like cowboys and Indians, but there are not any Indians and very few cowboys in Murder in the Rockies even though the story takes place in Denver in 1890.
Denver in 1890 was the supply center for the Rocky Mountain west and was home to a population of nearly 107,000 hardy souls. Incidentally, there were a few Indian wigwams scattered around the edge of town and in the immediate vicinity. And nobody played football.
Events
G. Eldon Smith will do a book signing and a chat about Murder in the Rockies at the Old Firehouse Bookstore in Fort Collins, Colorado on February 15 at 2:00 to 3:00 P.M.. If you are in the area, drop by, and say hello. We are old friends who haven't met yet. We can swap stories about what it was like in the old days when CSU changed its name from Colorado A&M to Colorado State University and had an enrollment of 4,300 (as I remember it.) Sorry to say, the Coeds were known as the Aggie Baggies. One coed for four male students made CSU a haven for husband hunting. If you disagree, we can discuss it Feb. 15 the day after Valentine's Day.
Excerpt
Defler turned and snarled. “You best stay away from Lilly
LaRue! She’s mine!”
Still on his knees, the rancher remained defiant. “I’ll kill you,
you son of a bitch.”
The bartender saw many barroom fights when he was a
customer. But now he was in charge and didn’t know quite what
to do. The owner told him about serving drinks—not about
refereeing fights. Who is going to pay for that chair? he thought.
He pondered for a minute and then poured himself a whiskey,
and another. Then he poured a round on the house.
This isn’t the only job in town, the bartender decided as he
poured himself another shot, vowing he would get back on the
wagon the next day.