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Jumpin', Jammin', Jivin', and Swingin'! "Jazz in Five Points" celebrates the heritage and the history of Denver's African American community. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and nearly all the other ...
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Jumpin', Jammin', Jivin', and Swingin'! "Jazz in Five Points" celebrates the heritage and the history of Denver's African American community. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and nearly all the other ...
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Trek ancient Indian trails across the continental divide to the confluence of the Colorado River and the Gunnison River in Grand Valley. Hard working and determined pioneer men and women built the thriving city of Grand Junction in ...
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Sarah Decker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Ellis Meredith defy their husbands and fathers, saloon owners, and even some abolitionists to gain the vote for women. Today Colorado women can own property, inherit estates, earn a salary, ...
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West symbolized everything western. The good guys wore white and the bad guys wore red. Buffalo Bill, for 30 years the most popular figure on two continents, performed a unique entertainment that's never been equaled. ...
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Southern Colorado Coal. We've heard about the Ludlow Massacre, but what about the families and children who lived and worked in the coal camps of Las Animas and Huerfano counties? Slavs, Chechs, Italians, Mexicans, and Poles called ...
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Return to the glorious days of summer-long vacations, mountain touring, and grand Colorado resort hotels. Uncover the stories behind three fabled resort hotels with host Jim Fleet: the Stanley Inn, Estes Park; the Broadmoor Hotel, ...
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The generation poised on the threshold of the twentieth century faced an uncertain future as slow paced nineteenth century life crumbled under the onrush of mechanization. Yet, the marvels of the twentieth century promised renewed ...
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Examine Denver's world famous park system and Mayor Speer's "The City Beautiful." Host Jim Fleet looks at the limiting effects of resources, politics and water on the evolution of Denver. Witness Denver through the eyes of its designers.
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How did people escape from the hardships of life on the Colorado frontier? Saloons, gambling, and bordellos. Who were the madams? Amusing and frequently poignant tales of the "soiled doves." The saloon, as a community center, hosted ...
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A daring young Frenchman makes Colorado's first documented aircraft flight at Denver's Overland Racetrack. Witness Colorado aviation history up until the Second World War. Host Jim Fleet investigates some early Colorado flying attempts ...
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Magnificent natural beauty makes Colorado one of the most photographed states. Interviews with Glenn Aultman and others who knew Colorado's pioneering photographers. Host Jim Fleet treats you to many historic photos and examines the ...
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The most intriguing of America's amusement parks, Elitch Gardens has touched the lives of residents and visitors alike since 1895. Elitch Gardens was home to Denver's first zoo, botanical garndes, america's oldest summer stock theater, ...
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The raw, unspoiled Southwest as recorded by artists and photographers like Samuel Seymour, John K. Hillers, and George Robertson. Journal entries, letters, and archival records tell the story of the men and women who painted a land ...
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Emigrants invest their hopes and dreams to the Pikes Peak gold. What drove men and women to abandon all that was familiar to face the unknown, and in some cases almost certain death, at the western edge of Kansas Territory? More incredibly, ...
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The Great Depression hit Colorado, too. Times were terrible in the cities. However, on the land known as the Dust Bowl, life, though hard and often hopeless, was also passionate. In the face of dust and grasshopper infestations, weary ...
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In search of pristine air and healing waters, consumption (TB) sufferers pour into Rocky Mountain towns. The time is the early 1800's. Sanitariums, sleeping porches, and tent colonies spring up much to the chagrin of residents who ...
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El Valle de San Luis, the Forgotten Land, where the descendants of conquistadors and colonists live much as they did in the days following the Spanish conquest. Tucked away in the San Juan, Sawatch, Sangre de Cristo, and Culebra Mountains, ...
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El Valle de San Luis, the Forgotten Land, where the descendants of conquistadors and colonists live much as they did in the days following the Spanish conquest. Tucked away in the San Juan, Sawatch, Sangre de Cristo, and Culebra Mountains, ...
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Colorado's heady bid to become film capital of the world. Hundreds of films were shot in the Rocky Mountains between 1897 and 1914, of which, only a few survive. Witness the birth of the American film industry, pre-Hollywood, through ...
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In 1862, the Homestead Act opened a vast grassland between the Missouri River and the Rockies. Homesteaders found hardship, sorrow, love, and laughter in the nearly uninhabitable "last frontier" that stretched across Kansas, Nebraska, ...
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In the late 19th century, immigrants from Poland, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Italy and Ireland made a treacherous journey to Denver. Immigrant neighborhoods evolved into thriving communities representative of the old country. Meet Mollie ...
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Denver's immigrants make their way to Little Italy, Globeville, and Hazeltine. Let the children of these immigrant neighborhoods take you to the local Italian grocery store, the Polish and Russian orthodox churches, and the Japanese ...
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Settlers from northern New Mexico arrived in the arid San Luis Valley in 1859. They carried their culture with them and used irrigation to turn desert into farmland. Their descendants carry on centuries old traditions: the weaver ...
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Take an exciting historical tour of Denver's only Air Force Base, with host Jim Fleet. Thousands of Army and Air Force airmen trained at Lowry in bombing, aerial photography, intelligence and ordinance. President Eisenhower's "Summer ...
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