Buffalo with Babies at the Overlook
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Jun. 29th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Church Services
- 10AM-3PM - Country Market
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 2PM - Ring of Fire
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
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Applications for Leadership Golden Open Through July 31
The Leadership Golden program is a series of seminars spanning a nine-month period.
These seminars facilitate opportunities for participants to increase their knowledge of the relationships between government, education, business, and the community of Golden. Participants have the opportunity to explore options and methods of problem solving with city staff and community leaders in the fields of education, arts, recreation, public finance, city and county government, justice, community responsibility and economic development.
Golden residents, residents of adjacent communities with Golden mailing addresses (Pleasant View, Lookout Mountain, etc.), and people who own businesses or work in Golden are eligible to participate and welcome to apply.
10AM-3PM Country Market @ Golden Hayride Outpost
Join us for another season of the weekly Country Market at Golden Outpost on Sundays, June through October!
The weekly Country Market features locally grown produce, cottage law food products, and local craft artisans. They have a full bar with indoor and outdoor seating, so you can enjoy a meal and relax with a beverage while shopping the amazing vendors and delicious produce at the Country Market.
More information
Location:
Golden Hayride Outpost
17695 South Golden Road (Map)
When:
10AM-3PM on Sunday, Jun. 29th
Live Music for Sunday, Jun. 29th
- 4:30-7:30PM Derek Hall @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- 5PM Celebrity Side Kick FINALS Event @ The Buffalo Rose
- More Live Music
11AM-2PMPM Gabriel Rose @ Golden Outpost
3PM Ballantyne and Bills Law Firm @ Over Yonder
3-7PM Jewel & the Rough @ Wrigley’s
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Hostilities
Portrait of Transcript Founder George West from the Golden History Museum Collection
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155 Years Ago
George West, founding father of both Golden and its newspaper, the Transcript, was generally a friend to all. His bonhomie encompassed people of all races, and even temperance advocates. The one notable exception was Native Americans.
His anger with this group was evident in an article published on June 29, 1870: “Will the West Stand for It?” I have no doubt that West himself wrote this article, expressing fury with the Grant administration for their efforts to make peace with the Plains Indians.
It is not at all strange that western people look with the most supreme contempt upon the President and officers of the government who have debased themselves and insulted every man, woman, and child west of the Missouri by this miserable driveling over the lousy, cutthroat Sioux whom they have been feasting and fawning upon for the last three weeks. These very brutes and their followers have been murdering our men and women with the most horrible indecencies for the past five years….
Colorado Transcript – June 29, 1870
The article goes on to refer to them as “these murderers of our brethren and ravishers of our wives and sisters…murderous savages…villainous brutes.”
West made the trip across the plains several times by wagon before the railroad reached Colorado. That would have been a harrowing trip, since the indigenous population was up in arms over the landgrab by Europeans. I don’t know whether West himself ever clashed with the natives, but he was certainly wary of them.
The article ends with the threat of the western states seceding from the union “if the government does not cease its insults and give us the protection we have the right to claim!” (This, coming from a Union officer!) It was an unusually passionate and angry article from the normally low-key, good-natured George West.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 63, with temperatures rising to around 65 overnight. West wind around 7 mph.
Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny. High near 86, with temperatures falling to around 80 in the afternoon. East northeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy. Low around 59, with temperatures rising to around 61 overnight. West wind 3 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 59°F
Monday: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 78°F
Monday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 59°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 87°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 89°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 64°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 89°F
Thursday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 64°F
Independence Day: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 86°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 84°F
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