HISTORY OF DENVER
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Supreme Court--First Session   89
Military Organization 91
Murder of W. S. Rogers 91
Prize Fight 93
Promotion of Capt. Slough 93
Meeting of the Legislature 93
Improvements 93
Incorporation of Denver 95
City Election 97
Opening of the Denver Theatre 97
The United States Branch Mint 97
Secretary Elbert 97
Improvements 97
Arrival of the Attorney General 99
Pacific Railroad and Telegraph 99
Arrival of Gov. Evans and Secretary Elbert 99
Real Estate 99
Denver Market--Fall of a Bridge--United States Marshal Hunt 99
The Daily Commonwealth 101
Exciting Footrace 101
Suicide 101
Fire Department 101
Episcopal Church 103
The Methodist Society 103
Union Convention 103
Fire 103
Gold 103
A Provost Guard 103
Murder of Big Doc 105
Improvements 105
Election of Hon. H. P. Bennet 105
Educational Movement 105
Denver Branch Mint 105
Accidental Shooting 107
Manufacture of Iron 107
Aquittal of Marshal Townsend 107
A New Church Building 107
Departure of the Third Regiment. 109
Hon. Amos Steck Elected Mayor 109
Prize Fight 109
The Great Fire 109
An Artesian Well 115
Improvements 115
Larceny at the Mint 115
Legislature--Third Session 117
Washington's Birthday 119
Colorado Seminary 119
The Great Flood 121
When and How it Commenced 123
Its Progress of Destruction 125


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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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GENERAL DIRECTORY
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History of Denver by J. E. Wharton with a Full and Complete Business Directory by D. O. Wilhelm (Denver, 1866)
    transcribed by Leona L. Gustafson
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