Santa Fe National Historic Trail
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Louis Cohn, 1837 December 3-1899 July 31
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Identifier: B111.02.0002.0021
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Louis Cohn (1837-1899) was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He traveled the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and opened a general merchandise store in the early 1860s. Cohn moved to San Luis, Colorado, in the early 1870s, and in 1876 married widow Juanita Mary Ruperta Valdez Cohn (1855-1895). In 1880, Cohn was elected as a delegate to the Colorado Democratic Convention, and was later elected to the Colorado House of...
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1837 December 3-1899 July 31
Robert Brown for Colorado Reflections
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Identifier: couda-brown_pikes
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Robert (Bob) Brown, retired teacher and author, discusses how Pike's Peak got its name. Explains what Colorado looked like before it became a territory or state and the formation of different towns and cities in Colorado. Brown discusses the how the Gold Rush, which brought people out West to Colorado, was precipitated by the "Panic of 1857," an economic depression. Discusses how people traveled out west, mostly by stagecoaches, by the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, or the Smoky Hill...
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