Those Crazy Pioneers, With Life and Times
of Lady Moon & Vignettes of History
Lafi
Miller
Lafi
Miller (self published) 2000,166 pages including index.
In
his preface Lafi says that he became interested in the history of this area
“because of my marriage into a ranching family.
My wife, Juliana Jo Sloan, was raised on a cattle ranch not too far from
Cherokee
Park
, but with a
Livermore
address.” Her parents were Arthur
and Julia Sloan. Julia’s parents were Herbert Swan and Eva Mae Roberts.
Juliana Jo Miller is thus a descent of three
Livermore
area pioneers: Roberts, Sloan and
Swan. Lafi also makes no claims for the accuracy of his stories. One
we know - "The
Stolen Hat" - about Billy Batterson exchanging his worn out hat for a newer
one at dances cannot be true. In the story he purported accidentally stole
his own son's hat. But Linda Adams' research shows the son was only five
years old when his father died at 57 (reportedly under suspicious
circumstances). The hat of a five-year-old does not seem likely to fit a
grown man. The stories are entertaining and most are true, or mostly
so. They are enjoyable reading.
Contents
1)
People
a)
Remittance Men
b)
The Lady Was No Lady, The
Life and Times of Lady Moon – a number of vignettes about this colorful and
arguably most well-known pioneer
c)
How About Those Pioneers
d)
A True Pioneer Family
e)
Charlotte
f)
Ted Dunning
g)
The Slow Talker
h)
The Stolen Hat
i)
Charles Frederick William
Cradock
j)
Red Feather Lou Young
k)
The Christmas Tree
l)
Trails End, Frank C.
Miller
m)
The Big Wheel
n)
Goldsborough-Brown-Brown-Beckstead-Maxwell
o)
Poland
Just Gave Up
p)
Ted Schaffer and the Two
Bar Seven
q)
The Historic Saddle
r)
Francis L. Carter-Cotton
s)
Sid Poland
t)
Children on a Cattle Ranch
2)
Places
a)
Log Cabin
Colorado
b)
Cherokee
Park
c)
Horse Thieves’ Hideout
d)
Tie Siding,
Wyoming
e)
The
Buffalo
Jump
f)
Chicken
Park
g)
Livermore
Colorado
h)
The
State
Capitol
Land
i)
Manhattan
,
Colorado
j)
The Early Hotels
k)
Red
Feather
Lakes
l)
Trail Creek Ranch
m)
Ames
Monument
n)
Sherman
,
Wyoming
o)
Adams
,
Colorado
– Ghost Town?
Adams Post Office,
Adams
School
,
Adams
Cemetery
p)
The
Overland Trail
i)
The LaPorte Stage Station
ii)
The Deon Cabin
iii)
Park Creek Station
iv)
The Devil’s Washboard
v)
Cherokee Stage Station
vi)
Virginia Dale Station
vii)
Jack Slade
viii)
Lovers’ Leap
ix)
Colorado
–
Wyoming
Marker
3)
Happenings (14 stories)
4)
More Recent History
a)
Moving Cattle
b)
Bernice George
c)
Square Your Sets, Fiftieth
Anniversary Celebration
d)
Virginia Dale Ring-Dike
e)
Rattlesnake Jack
f)
Sloan Diamond Mines
g)
Big Thompson Flood
h)
Unidentified Flying Object
i)
An Unusual Gathering
j)
Pickens Point
Pictures
1)
Lady Catherine Gratton
Lawder Moon – 4
2)
Lady Moon’s Barn at Cold
Spring Park Ranch, built by Frank H. Gartman – 5
3)
Sir Cecil Ernest Moon, a
sketch – 7
4)
Fox Hunt of the Remittance
Men, a sketch – 7
5)
Lady
Moon
Lake
at
Cold
Spring
Park
Ranch – 9
6)
Lady Catherine Moon with
Robert and Kate Andrews – 15
7)
Catherine Moon
Tombstone
– 18
8)
Lady Moon’s Bridle –
24
9)
Lady Moon’s dog cart at
the Frank Ulrich Home – 25
10)
Lady Moon, beside one of
Queen
Victoria
’s chairs -25
11)
Homer Croy, author of The
Lady From Colorado – 28
12)
Richard S. Baker
(historian who helped Croy on his research – 29
13)
Powers
Maternity
Hospital
– 31
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