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3 posted on 05/11/2020 7:19:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
On a side note, Colorado, which does not yet exist as a political entity, is in the throws of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush.
I've never heard of a Smoky Hill Massacre, so I think the dispatch was right to discredit it. The Smoky Hill River is in Kansas, on the route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to newly founded Denver and the diggings beyond.