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Queen Palmer

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Queen Palmer

Season 2023 Episode 10 | 55m 44s | CC

A story of the first year of Colorado Springs, CO through the eyes of songbird Mary Lincoln Mellen, newlywed to town founder and railroad baron General William J. Palmer. Written from 1871-1872, this re-creation of time was filmed exactly 150 years to the day and place of the journal entries, published anonymously in 1874 as “Winter in the Rocky Mountains & Springtime in Mexico."

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