J. Bradford Bowers - Bound by Steel and Stone : The Colorado-­Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890–­1960

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J. Bradford Bowers

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ISBN: 978-1-64642-127-5 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-1-64642-128-2 (ebook)

https://doi.org/10.5876/9781646421282

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bowers, J. Bradford, 1966 author.

Title: Bound by steel and stone : the Colorado-Kansas Railway and the frontier of enterprise in Colorado, 18901960 / J. Bradford Bowers.

Other titles: Timberline books.

Description: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2021] | Series: Timberline series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020033055 (print) | LCCN 2020033056 (ebook) | ISBN 9781646421275 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781646421282 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: MacDaniel, Irma, 18931971. | Colorado-Kansas Railway. | RailroadsColoradoPuebloHistory. | RailroadsManagement. | Pueblo (Colo.)History20th century. | Stone City (Colo.)History20th century.

Classification: LCC HE2771.C6 B68 2021 (print) | LCC HE2771.C6 (ebook) | DDC 385.09788/5509041dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033055

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033056

Material from Prairie Dreams and Apple Schemes by J. Bradford Bowers was previously published in The Pueblo Lore (September 2003) and is reprinted with permission from the Pueblo County Historical Society.

Front-cover photograph courtesy of Pueblo City-County Library District.

For Irma

Visitors to the clay mines at Stone City upon its grand-opening celebration, June 12, 1912

Map of the Colorado-Kansas Railway, 19121957

Groundbreaking for the Rapid Transit Company, Pueblo, Colorado, September 28, 1903

A. B. Hulit loading first scraper of dirt and Pueblo mayor John T. West driving the team, July 30, 1908

Surveyor J. G. Todd and crew at work locating the line near Pueblo, June 1908

Freighting camp at Stone City for hauling quarried stone to the railhead at Cabin Springs, July 1, 1908

Freighting quarried stone to the railhead at Cabin Springs, circa 1908

The Daniel-Best steam engine hauling stone down to Cabin Springs, circa 1910

The Cabin Springs transfer station for Turkey Creek stone on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, circa 1908

Turkey Creek Stone, Clay & Gypsum Company stone mill in Pueblo between C and D Streets northwest of Lamkin Street, July 1, 1908

Postcard of Pueblo County Courthouse advertising Turkey Creek Stone, 1912

Excavating a cut near Pueblo, 1908

Grading a fill near Turkey Creek, 1908

Grading about halfway between Pueblo and Stone City, 1908

Postcard of Fourth Street Bridge and Arkansas River, Pueblo, 1912

First Train on the Kansas-Colorado Railroad, near Victoria Avenue, February 28, 1910

Colorado-Kansas Railway No. 1 at her Pueblo debut, December 1911

Builders photo of Colorado Midland sister locomotive No. 23, 1887, showing how Colorado-Kansas No.1 would have looked as CM no. 24

Turkey Creek Stone, Clay & Gypsum Company window display during Home Week, April 1912

Turkey Creek Stone, Clay & Gypsum Company window display during Home Week, April 1912

View of Victoria Avenue and the Arkansas River from the roof of the Vail Hotel, circa 1912

The Kretschmer blacksmith shop prior to being repurposed for the Colorado-Kansas Railways Victoria Avenue depot, 1912

Victoria Avenue depot, circa 1912

Maps of the Irving Place Railyard and Victoria Avenue Trackage, circa 1912

The Baker Steam Motor Car manufacturing plant, circa 1918

Dry Creek Trestle north of Pueblo, circa 1930

A. B. Hulit and party inspecting the future site of the Teller Reservoir, July 1, 1908

A. B. Hulit viewing Teller Reservoir dam site from opposite side, July 1, 1908

Concrete conduits of the Teller Dam during construction, circa 1910

Map of the Teller Reservoir & Irrigation Companys lands, 1909

The Geo. H. Paul Companys private car, Wamduska, 1909

Plowing on the Geo. H. Paul Orchard Company property, circa 1911

Furrowing the soil on the Geo. H. Paul Orchard Company property, circa 1911

Map of the Geo. H. Paul property from the Apples of Gold promotional booklet, 1911

Geo. H. Paul button from the Kansas City Land Show, February 1912

Apple Queen postcard from the Kansas City Land Show, February 1912

Geo. H. Paul Orchard Company headquarters, Appleton, Colorado, circa 1912

Colorado-Kansas train near Stone City, circa 1912

Group photo with Locomotive No. 1 on a chilly day, circa 1912

Locomotive No. 1 with unnamed people, possibly some of the owners, circa 1913

Booth Mountain as seen from Stone City Road, 2001