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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~Washington Irving
Stagecoach Transportation
Concord stagecoaches were built in Concord, New Hampshire. The interior featured three upholstered bench seats. Passengers were allowed 21 pounds of luggage. The passenger compartment was suspended on multi-layered ox-hide straps that smoothed the ride over rough roads. In 1861, entrepreneur Ben Holladay (October 14, 1819 – July 8, 1887) won the U.S. Postal Service’s Missouri to Salt Lake City mail-hauling contract and launched the Overland Stage Line,
The Overland Mail and Express Co.’s 600-mile Denver to Salt Lake City Division was composed of 46 stage stations spaced every 10 to 15 miles. Station operators grew and cut hay and stored grain for Ben Holladay’s 1,700 stagecoach horses and mules. The stage would pull into the station and the operator would swap the worn out horses for fresh ones. Horses and mules were swapped every 10 to 15 miles depending on terrain and weather conditions. Stagecoaches averaged 60 to 100 miles a day
A Denver city ordinance came into effect on June 1, 1866 renaming McGaa Street to Holladay to honor the tycoon. At the heart of Holladay Street was Denver's red light district. Two years after Benjamen's death, Halladay's widow, Lydia, and the family, concerned with the relationship, petitioned the city to strip Holladay's name from the street, which had become widely known as 'the most sinful street in the West.' The city passed an ordinance on June 1, 1889 renaming Holladay Street to Market Street, a tongue in cheek reference to the activities that took place there.
Tesoro Cultural Center
The Tesoro Cultural Center (Tesoro means “Treasure” in Spanish) is committed to protecting and making available to the community the artistic treasures of our American past. All Tesoro events are inspired by Colorado’s rich history.
June 5 and 6, at the Fort, a restaurant built as a replica of early western forts, Tesoro presents the 20th Annual Indian Market and ceremonial dance. Award-winning American Indians will sell and demonstrate their art. Stories, wildlife lectures, and Indian dancing will contribute to the family fun.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~Washington Irving
Stagecoach Transportation
Concord stagecoaches were built in Concord, New Hampshire. The interior featured three upholstered bench seats. Passengers were allowed 21 pounds of luggage. The passenger compartment was suspended on multi-layered ox-hide straps that smoothed the ride over rough roads. In 1861, entrepreneur Ben Holladay (October 14, 1819 – July 8, 1887) won the U.S. Postal Service’s Missouri to Salt Lake City mail-hauling contract and launched the Overland Stage Line,
The Overland Mail and Express Co.’s 600-mile Denver to Salt Lake City Division was composed of 46 stage stations spaced every 10 to 15 miles. Station operators grew and cut hay and stored grain for Ben Holladay’s 1,700 stagecoach horses and mules. The stage would pull into the station and the operator would swap the worn out horses for fresh ones. Horses and mules were swapped every 10 to 15 miles depending on terrain and weather conditions. Stagecoaches averaged 60 to 100 miles a day
A Denver city ordinance came into effect on June 1, 1866 renaming McGaa Street to Holladay to honor the tycoon. At the heart of Holladay Street was Denver's red light district. Two years after Benjamen's death, Halladay's widow, Lydia, and the family, concerned with the relationship, petitioned the city to strip Holladay's name from the street, which had become widely known as 'the most sinful street in the West.' The city passed an ordinance on June 1, 1889 renaming Holladay Street to Market Street, a tongue in cheek reference to the activities that took place there.
Tesoro Cultural Center
The Tesoro Cultural Center (Tesoro means “Treasure” in Spanish) is committed to protecting and making available to the community the artistic treasures of our American past. All Tesoro events are inspired by Colorado’s rich history.
June 5 and 6, at the Fort, a restaurant built as a replica of early western forts, Tesoro presents the 20th Annual Indian Market and ceremonial dance. Award-winning American Indians will sell and demonstrate their art. Stories, wildlife lectures, and Indian dancing will contribute to the family fun.
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For more information email: www.TesoroCulturalCenter.org
telephone 303-839-1671
telephone 303-839-1671
Monarch Butterfly Navigation
"We still don't understand how they how they find their way to the overwintering sites," says Steven Reppert, a retired neurobiologist. Only in the last twenty years or so have scientists been working on solving the mystery of this astonishing migration ending with the monarchs finding their way to the sanctuary forest of Michlacan, Mexico.
Scientists have estimated that it takes three or four generations of monarchs to travel from Mexico to southern Canada and a completely different generation returning to the overwintering site. Monarchs don't migrate at night because they use the sun to orient themselves.
Warming temperatures from climate change could be affecting the Monarchs cues to start the autumn and spring migrations. The number of butterflies have been increasing in a fluctuating upward cycle which gives some scientists hope. On the other hand American farmers are tearing out milkweed or using more pesticides and in Mexico illegal loggers are encroaching on the sanctuary forests.
The monarchs are not just a pretty face. They are valuable pollinators.
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