Indian eater Big Phil, the deadly rat game, gold bricks for sale and the pickled skull mystery are all as much a part of Colorado history as mining and railroading. Imaginative, ambitious people and hard frontier living combined to create a fertile setting for genuinely bizarre behavior. Short story format is used in this well-illustrated book.
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Kenneth Jessen is author of 11 books and several booklets as well as nearly 700 articles on Colorado history.
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Indian Eater Big Phil, The Deadly Rat Game, Gold Bricks for Sale, The Pickled Skull Mystery, The Two-Story Outhouse, A Cure for Tallow Mouth, The Tomato Wars, and Colorado's Apeman - all are titles of stories in Bizarre Colorado. Such topics are as much a part of Colorado history as mining, ranching, and railroading. Imaginative, ambitious people combined with hard frontier living created a fertile setting for such things as staged collisions, con games, lost locomotives, and genuinely bizarre behavior.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Bizarre and unusual events you wouldn't expect from Colorado,
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This review is from: Bizarre Colorado: A Legacy of Unusual Events & People (Paperback)
A wonderful and very entertaining book of short stories of bizarre and unusual events that have happened in the state of Colorado. You will be amused and horrified at some of the different stories. Check it out.
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Amazing true stories,
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This review is from: Bizarre Colorado: A Legacy of Unusual Events & People (Paperback)
I read Bizarre Colorado when I was working as a guide in Rocky Mountain National Park and looking for stories with local flavor. The stories here definitely have flavor. Basically the book relates stories with odd or macabre elements which took place in Colorado. Many of them are wild westy, since Colorado started out being settled by trappers and ranchers. Cannibalism, a huge grizzly bear, vendettas, gun fights and lynchings are all included. Stories are told with detail and with photographs interspersed, and not much sensationalism.
If that sounds interesting to you then you will probably like Bizarre Colorado.
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