Article: A TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO COLORADO'S WILD WEST LEGACY OF GUNFIGHTERS, GAMBLERS LIVES FROM DENVER TO DURANGO.(Spotlight)

Byline: Alan Dumas

Walk down Larimer Street in Denver and you'll be walking in the footsteps of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday. You'll pass trees where men were lynched, saloons where men bled to death on the floor, homes that were once bordellos.

From the perspective of the European immigrant, all of Colorado's past is recent past. From the settler's perspective, everything that's ever happened took place within the past 200 years; most things significant in the past 120.

Just outside living memory are the gunfights, outlaws, cattle drives and vigilante justice that make up the myth of the West. Only here it wasn't entirely a myth. ...

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