Frontier Pathways
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
El Pueblo
The Promise of Paradise
A Legacy Carved in Stone
A Country Home of Their Own
Exploring on Your Own
Further Down the Road
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
The American Dream
Life on the Kennicott Ranch
What Did They Leave Behind?
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
Frontier Pathways Timeline
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide
Jackson Stage Stop
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Frontier Pathways

Frontier Pathways Timeline
1842 El Pueblo Trading Post is founded.
1852 Utes attack El Pueblo Trading Post; the post is then abandoned.
1862 Homestead Act makes available 160 acres to settlers.
1870 Colfax Colony is founded in the Wet Mountain Valley by German immigrants from Chicago.
1871 Colfax Colony is disbanded.
1880 William Palmer builds first steel mill (Colorado Fuel and Iron) in Pueblo.
1889 Pueblo’s Union Depot is built.
1919 U.S. Forest Service hires Arthur Carhart as its first recreational planner for San Isabel National Forest.
1919 Squirrel Creek Campground opens.
1921 Arkansas River floods Pueblo.
1947 Flood washes out Squirrel Creek Road and the campground is abandoned.
HIGHLIGHTS
El Pueblo Trading Post
Great Divide Pictures LLC

1842
El Pueblo Trading Post is founded.
Homestead family
Courtesy, West Custer Count Library District Collection

1862
Homestead Act makes available 160 acres to settlers.
Steel mill worker
Courtesy, Pueblo City-County Library District

1880
William Palmer builds first steel mill in Pueblo.
Main Street, Pueblo
Courtesy, Pueblo City-County Library District

1921
Arkansas River floods Pueblo.
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