This is a photo postcard of Nettie Hornback, which Nettie mailed to her father, Ross W. Hornback of Gardner, Colorado, on Valentine’s Day, 1911. Nettie wrote: “Dear Papa, Here is…
Cripple Creek in 1906 By 1906, Cripple Creek gold mines had reportedly produced almost $216,000,000 worth of gold ore since first discovered in 1891. And there was more down there,…
On New Year’s Eve of 1910, Meade Sanford mailed this postcard from Evans, Colorado, to his brother Delano in Scotch Grove, Iowa. Meade, born April 3, 1867, in Edinburg, Iowa,…
Ulysses Grant Bleasdale was born October 16, 1865, in Orange Township, Ohio, one of seven children of British immigrant Thomas Calvert Bleasdale and Ohio native Mary Adeline Thorp. They farmed. …
