Tag: Pikes Peak Gold Rush
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Was the root beer float invented in Colorado?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s how the story goes: In 1893 at a Cripple Creek brewery, a wandering entrepreneur named Frank J. Wisner was experimenting with carbonated water, roots and sweeteners that did not quite achieve the sweetness he sought. Perhaps a scoop of vanilla ice cream would do…
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Looping through relics of Pikes Peak past, this trail is ‘a treasure trove of history’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VICTOR — It’s best to go on the trail with a poem. The words are found in a commemorative book from 1993, celebrating 100 years of this once mighty gold camp. The relics from those days still stand, those towering headframes along the Vindicator Valley…