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Thinking About Poker: Whatcha gonna do?

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NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW Covering a 100-year old event with modern technology Page 5

HOT PROMOS/NUGGETS Black Hawk, Central City promos, specials and giveaways Pages 7-9

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The Last Hand

A good cabin-fever joke about our lovely snow metro area.

It seems, historically, The following is a litwhenever the National tle reminder that we have Western Stock Show published before about arrives, the bitter cold weather comes right the experience of one along with the fancy new couple who moved livestock, horses, sheep to the Colorado mounand chickens. The recent tains: snow has been minor “Why We Live by compared to cold snaps the Ocean in California” that put the tempera- BY BOB SWEENEY (author and source unknown) ture into minus degrees Dec. 8, 6 p.m. A personal log: across the state.

Skiers are reporting awesome It started to snow. The first snow snow at all the Colorado ski slopes, of the season, and the wife and I took and it will again be a bumper year for our cocktails and sat for hours by the our mountain ski towns and avid ski- window watching the huge soft flakes ers. If you play in the snow, it warms drift down from heaven. It looked like up the winter and brings cheering a Grandma Moses print. So romantic, when the white powder arrives. If one we felt like newlyweds again. I love doesn’t ski, the snow means snarled snow!

Dec. 9: traffic, slippery streets and snow We woke to a beautiful blanket shoveling, but also water for the grass of crystal white snow covering every and trees next summer.

New residents continue to trek to inch of the landscape. What a fantasColorado to live, work and play in tic sight! Can there be a lovelier place our great state. Many new apartment in the whole world? Moving here was buildings dot the skyline around the the best idea I’ve ever had! Shoveled

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for the first time in years and felt like s h i p m e n t a boy again. I did both our driveway in March. I and the sidewalks. This afternoon, the think they’re Publisher Subscriptions snowplow came along and covered lying. Bob Robert Sweeney B.T. Galloway 303-773-8313 x301 up the sidewalks and closed in the says I have bsween1@aol.com subscribe@villager driveway, so I got to shovel again. to shovel or V.P. Marketing publishing.com the city will What a perfect life!

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To advertise, call Sharon snow. Such a disappointment. My I think he’s 303-503-1388 neighbor tells me not to worry—we’ll lying.

Managing Editor Dec. 22: definitely have a white Christmas. No Becky Osterwald snow on Christmas would be awful.

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Bob says we’ll have so much snow by right about com the end of winter that I’ll never want a white Design/Production Manager to see snow again. I don’t think that’s C h r i s t m a s Tom McTighe possible. Bob is such a nice man. I’m because 13 production@villagerpublishing. glad he’s our neighbor. more inches com Dec. 14: of the white Snow, lovely snow. Eight inches stuff fell toDesign/Production last night. The temperature dropped day and it’s Renee Novitsky renee@villagerpublishing.com to 20 below zero. The cold makes so cold. It everything sparkle so. The wind took p r o b a b l y my breath away, but I warmed up won’t melt www.coloradogambler.com coloradogambler cogambler by shoveling the driveway and sidetill August. me walks. This is the life! The snowplow Took came back this afternoon and buried 45 minutes everything again. I didn’t realize I to get all would have to do quite this much dressed up wife says I have a bad attitude. I think shoveling, but I’ll certainly get back warm to go out to shovel and then she’s an idiot. If I have to watch It’s in shape this way. I wish I wouldn’t I had to go to the bathroom. By the a Wonderful Life one more time, I’m huff and puff so much. time I got undressed and then dressed going to stuff her into the microwave.

Dec. 15: again, I was too tired to shovel. Tried Dec. 26: Twenty inches forecast. Sold my to hire Bob, who has a plow his truck Still snowed in. Why the heck did I van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought for the rest of the winter, but he says ever move here? It was all HER idea. snow tires for the wife’s car and two he’s too busy. I think he’s lying.

She’s really getting on my nerves. extra shovels. Stocked the freezer.

Dec. 23: Dec. 27: The wife wants a wood stove in case Only two inches of snow today.

Temperature dropped to 30 dethe electricity goes out. I think that’s And it warmed up to zero. The wife silly. We aren’t in Alaska, after all. wanted me to decorate the front of the grees below zero and the pipes froze.

Dec. 16: house for Christmas morning. What is Plumber came after 14 hours of waitStorm this morning. Fell on my she, nuts? Why didn’t she tell me to ing for him. He only charged me rear on the ice in the driveway putting do that a month ago? She says she $1,400 to replace all my pipes.

Dec. 28: down salt. Hurt like heck. The wife did, but I think she’s lying. laughed for an hour, which I think Dec. 24: Warmed up to above 20 below was very cruel.

Six inches of snow packed so zero. Still snowed in. My wife is drivDec. 17: hard by snowplow, broke the shovel. ing me crazy.

Still way below freezing. Roads Thought I was having a heart attack.

Dec. 29: are too icy to go anywhere. Electric- If I ever catch the guy who drives Ten more inches. Bob says I have ity was off for five hours. I had to pile that snowplow, I’ll drag him through to shovel the roof or it could cave in. blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to the snow and beat him to death with That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. do but stare at the wife and try not to my broken shovel. I know he hides How dumb does he think I am? irritate her. Guess I should’ve bought around the corner and waits for me Dec. 30: a woodstove, but won’t admit it to to finish shoveling and then he comes Roof caved in. I beat up the snowher. God, I hate it when she’s right. I down the street 100 miles an hour and plow driver, and now he is suing me can’t believe I’m freezing to death in throws the snow all over where I’ve for $1 million, not only for the beatjust been. Tonight, the wife wanted my own living room. me to sing Christmas carols with her ing I gave him, but also for trying to Dec. 20: Electricity’s back on, but I had an- and open our presents, but I was to shove the broken snow shovel up his posterior. The wife went home to her other 14 inches of the stuff last night. busy watching for the snowplow. mother. Nine more inches predicted.

Dec. 25: More shoveling. Took all day. The Dec. 31: Merry yucky Christmas! Twenty darn snowplow came by twice. Tried I set fire to what’s left of the house. to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but more inches of the slop tonight— they said they’re too busy playing snowed in. The idea of shoveling No more shoveling.

Jan. 8: hockey. I think they’re lying. Called makes my blood boil. I hate snow!

Feel so good. I just love those little the only hardware store around to Then the snowplow driver came by see about buying a snow blower asking for a donation and I hit him white pills they keep giving me. Why and they’re out. Might have another over the head with my shovel. The am I tied to the bed?

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Thinking About Poker: Whatcha gonna do?

As I write this I’m sitting in San Diego having visited family and friends over Christmas and am contemplating what my 2017 bucket list will hold.

I don’t make New Years’ resolutions as those are too easily BY broken and/or forgotten and LARRY by a large margin are unreJOHNSON alistic and unattainable. I try to keep my future goals at the simple and basic level; I don’t need to provide examples as we Oceanside. It’s in north San Diego all know what ‘simple and basic’ County just south of Camp Pendmeans. In the realm of poker, all I leton Marine Corps base. Clean, wish to attain is a consistent pat- bright and a non-smoking facility tern of playing my best no matter (the Indian casinos such as Sichwhat. Poker is a game of highs and uan allow smoking), they spread lows, profitable sessions and los- a wide range of limit and no-limit ing sessions; there is much to be hold-em and Omaha games – said for having skill in the game quite literally something for evbut then there’s the element of eryone’s’ tastes and budget. Since luck. Sometimes you catch the the Omaha games were filled with card(s) you need, sometimes you longer waiting lists, I joined a $2 don’t. Sometimes the ‘long run’ - $5 no-limit game and in a few turns out a lot longer than one minutes moved over to an $8 - $16 limit game. Since I had been doing would like.

When I venture to Southern well at the $30 - $60 limit hold-em California the closest cardroom game in Black Hawk I figured this to where I stay is Ocean’s 11 in might work out well. I was hoping

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the $20 - $40 game would get enough players but that never happened; probably a good thing, too.

The headline of this article is “Whatcha gonna do?” So I pose to you, faithful reader, the question posed in the title when on average seven or eight players see a flop – even with a raise and even (!) the occasional three-bet before the flop – and again on average three to four stay to the river! All the ‘normal’ strategies and tactics in essence went right out the window. Bets, raises and re-raises, bluffs and check-raises did not have the ‘normal’ and expected/ hoped for results; players just threw in another $8 and in many cases $16, $24 and $32 like it meant nothing. They were calling capped pots with draws and the displays of ‘wish poker’ funded by their calls of bets and multiple bets ‘wishing’ their hand would come in; for example…

In late position with K – 9 suited the flop came J – 9 – 7

rainbow; strong betting convinced me to fold and ultimately a pair of sevens won. Pocket 4’s a half hour later found me again folding when my blind was raised and capped before getting back to me. In that situation, do you think that maybe, just maybe someone has a bigger pair or better starting hand? Of course! Are you going to throw $32 into the pot with that low pair? Of course not! Didn’t help my mood when a four flopped and the board paired on the river for a potential win had I stayed, especially when the winning hand showed pocket queens. For the next hour or more, no flush or straight draws came in and the old chip stack began to look depleted – which it was.

One bright moment was when I had pocket 3’s in late position and so to see a flop I called a raise with four other players. Nothing higher than a nine on the flop and when the hand ended my threes had won. What could these guys be calling with – nothing but drawing hands? Evidently so - but the entire night went like that: raises and

re-raises meant nothing to these players. What the heck, it’s only four more chips (we were playing with $2 chips) or eight or 12.

It would be a great game if I was catching some cards with any level or regularity, which I was not. And the hands that were shown and which did win I could only shake my head in wonderment that players would expend that number of bets on so slim a draw. And of course, they would either get there on the river or by pure attrition drive out the winner.

So, whatcha gonna do when encountering a table full of – not necessarily maniacs per se but – extremely loose calling stations who wouldn’t get out of a hand even if the casino was on fire? I surely couldn’t tell you because quite frankly I don’t know. I’m going to have to give this scenario a lot of thought. But that’s what makes – or breaks – this game; whether or not you’re thinking about poker.

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January 17-30, 2017

RIDE ‘EM COWBOY National Western Stock Show saddles up

The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo started in an empty lot with tents more than 100 years ago. Today, it has grown into an international event and a crown jewel known for its competitive rodeo and influential showcase for the disciplines of farming and ranching.

Everyone’s a cowboy during the 2017 National Western Stock Show—including politicians, society leaders and sports figures—as ties and suits are bucked for cowboy boots and Western shirts. A highlight this week was 2017 PBR Pro Bull Riding. In covering it, photojournalist Stefan Krusze took a ride on his new Droid Moto Z by Motorola with a Hasselblad 4116 Camera from Verizon—a first for The Villager and the Stock Show.

Gov. John and Robin Hickenlooper go West.

BELOW: Kelsie Winslow, Miss Rodeo Colorado 2017, Lisa Langeschaar, Miss Rodeo America 2017, and Abby Hayduk, Miss Rodeo Wyoming 2017.

Ernie Blake alongside Sharon Magness Blake, atop Denver Broncos mascot Thunder, and handler/trainer Ann Judge.

Photos by Stefan Krusze

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Club 40

Now on one convenient day! We’re multiplying the fun every Wednesday in January! Join us for Club 40. All guests age 40 or better will receive 6x points on slots and 2x points on video poker. Guests will also receive a free entrée at Otis & Henry’s once they earn 25 Tier Score points on their Lady Luck Player’s Card. See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

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Play and stay

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Monte Carlo

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It’s easier than ever to win big in the Lady Luck Poker Room! The Bad Beat Jackpot now includes a decreasing qualifier element starting at Aces full of Kings. And make sure to check out the new Bounce Back Bonus offers—now every day of the week!

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Guests can earn entries Jan. 1 – Jan. 29. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday we will have drawings at 5, 7 and Come and try out your blackjack skills 9 p.m. Earn 10x entries on penny machines every Thursday, Jan. 5 to Jan. 26. at our $1,500 free roll blackjack tournament on Friday, Jan. 20 from 4-7 p.m. *See Guest Services for full details.

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Every Tuesday in January from 11 $2 Hot dog and domestic beer 11 a.m. --10 p.m. or while supplies last we will be giving away light up collectors a.m.-9 p.m. Daily at the Celebrity Bar $29.99 Surf and Turf Lobster Tail and guitar pins to guests who have earned 50 points. *See Guest Services for full Petite Filet Wednesday-Sunday at The details.

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A Tailing Tale

A Tailing Tale of George Nelson

In 1931, President Herbert Hoover led boys and three girls. our struggling country through the great George’s parent’s marriage was wrought depression. The U.S. adopted the Star with problems, primarily due to Martin’s Spangled Banner as our national anthem, practice of spending large sums of money and on May 7, George Nelson for whatever he thought he was born in a little hospital on needed at the time. It didn’t the corner of Broadway and By Maggie matter what something cost, Alpine in Boulder. if Martin felt he needed it he Magoffin The first child born to bought it. This often left the Martin and Dollie Nelson, family with no money and George’s earliest memories Dollie’s earnings from the are of his life as a young boy grocery store kept food on the in Rollinsville. The only stutable. So, Dollie took George dent in his grade level for and Wally and left Martin, nearly five years, like most Maggie@maggiempublications.com moving into an apartment young boys, George and his above Schobert’s Garage. younger brother, Wally, were frequently In 1948, Martin became County Comup to mischief. Besides engaging in regu- missioner and moved into town, each day lar bouts of wrestling and fighting with one returning to the ranch to care for the horses, another, they smashed pennies on railroad cattle and milk cows. He frequently brought tracks and got into trouble with their mom fresh milk to the boys and regularly butchwhen they hiked up to the dam to fish. ered cattle and sold them to Ramstetter’s In1942, Martin took a job keeping the Grocery. Throughout WWII, Black Hawk road open for the miners at the Hender- and Central City always had fresh meat son mine, on Berthoud Pass, just west of Empire, so the family moved into a small cabin there so George’s father would not have so far to travel to work. After spending part of the school year and the summer in Empire, that fall Dollie and the boys moved to Idaho Springs where the winters weren’t as harsh.

The next summer, the family moved into the original Nils Nelson homestead in Four-Mile Gulch in Black Hawk, and each day, George and Wally walked about a mile to the Black Hawk schoolhouse. Traversing through FourMile Gulch, they arrived in town in the area where the post office sits today.

Later in ’42, Martin and Dollie Nelson bought the old Van DeVeer place, thanks to Martin Nelson and Ramstetter’s west of the cemeteries up from Central Grocery. A rarity for the times.

George recalls a time when Martin had City. The only boy in his class of three to pick up a herd of cattle in Georgetown students, George graduated eighth grade from Central City middle school and the and drive them up to Central City. He enfollowing year he attended Central City listed the assistance of George and another High School—the numbers during those boy. Riding horseback, they drove that herd years were a bit more even with three of cattle down Highway 40 and up Fall

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River. Once up Fall River they headed up Bald Mountain Gulch and then into Central City.

At some point in the late 40’s or early 50’s, Martin sold the former Van DeVeer house and bought the Stoehle house in Chase Gulch. Today, the City of Black Hawk owns the home and it is currently undergoing restoration. Locals call it “The Mansion.”

When George was 15-years-old, his mother remarried. Still living in Black Hawk, George took a job at the Teller House in Central washing dishes. Over the summer, he saved up enough money so that by his birthday the following spring he was able to buy a ’31 Chevy coupe, for which he paid $300. He said, “That car would only go 55 mph, but it could climb a brick wall.”

At 16, George went to work for the Quiller Grocery Store. He got to school at 9 a.m. and left at 3:30 p.m. After grabbing a milkshake at the drugstore, he would hurry over to Quiller’s and then close the store at 5 p.m. After graduating from high school in ’49, George continued working for Quiller’s driving a delivery truck, stocking grocery shelves and cutting meat.

In 1951, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he worked in the commissary, and when he was discharged in 1955, his training at Quillers cutting meat provided him with a lifelong career.

George went to work as a meat cutter for A&P Groceries on the east coast and then in ’63 returned to Denver to carry out the same work for the National Tea Company.

A story about George Nelson would not be complete without highlighting the man’s love for dancing and his lovely wife, Betty. Throughout his life, he has enjoyed all kinds of dancing. He even met his wife, Betty, at a dance. They were married in 1983, and the couple spent many happy times together on the dance floors of the Denver area.

George and Betty also spent many

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fun weekends at the old Gundy house in Chase Gulch, purchased by Martin Nelson in the 1950’s and moved from its original location to where it sits today. The house came to George when Martin passed away in ’78, and in 1985, with the assistance of Betty’s children and several friends, they cleaned the place up and turned it into their refuge in the mountains. They spent 25 happy summers playing cards, dancing and partying with friends and family in the old house, and today the City of Black Hawk preserves and protects the home as a historical landmark.

FROM MAGGIE Be sure to check out my website for past columns at www.MaggieMPublications.com.

The first two books in my Misadventures of the Cholua Brother’s Series are available on my website, on Amazon.com, Lulu.com and BarnesandNoble.com. They can also be bought through the Gilpin Historical Museum and Mountain Menagerie in Central City. Watch for the release of the third and final book in the series Bonanza Beans available in late February or early March.

Cholua Brothers Mining Company specialty coffees are available at Mountain Menagerie in Central City or from their website at www.choluabros.com.

This column was previously published in the Central City Weekly Register-Call.

Send in your tales – Mail your stories with contact information: Maggie M P.O. Box 746495 Arvada, CO 80006-6495 Email: Maggie@maggiempublications.com If you prefer to tell me your story orally and have me write it for you, please feel free to call me at 303-881-3321.

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Gemstone & Minerals

Spinel: The unfamiliar gemstone Since beauty, rarity and durability measure the value of a mineral or gemstone, certainly red, light red, and orange spinel (pronounced spin-ELL) should rank near the top. This, unfortunately, is not the case for spinel; in fact, not only the public but many jewelers are completely unfamiliar with this species.

The reasons for this state of affairs are not always easy to discover.

However, the best red colors have long been confused with rubies. Since spinel is associated with ruby in most all of the areas of the world where it is mined, this confusion is understandable. Also, the fact that the names used for red spinel, such as “Balas ruby” (possibly from Balascia, and old name for Badakshan in Afghanistan) or the name “spinel ruby” add to the confusion to identify spinel. The layman may be misled to believe that these terms are merely locality names for ruby, such as Burma ruby or Ceylon ruby. Spinel and ruby are chemically similar.

This is why the two are so much the same. The red coloring in both gems is due to chromium.

The other colors in which spinel occurs tend to be subdued or “grayed out.” Therefore, the blue and violet stones are seldom confused with sappphire; neither are they often seen in jewelry.

Two colors that are sometimes mentioned for

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spinel, yellow and colorless, are so rare that they have no importance.

Green spinel is virtually unknown, except as very dark stones that are of interest only to collectors. One very good reason that spinel is relatively little known is its rarity. Today a fine red spinel of more than five carrats in weight is uncommon. That was not always true, since some of the most famous gemstones in history are spinels of great size and some of the spinels in gem collections weigh more than 100 carats.

One of the most fascinating gemstones in all the world, because of its rich history and the events engraved upon it, is a large spinel called the “Timur Ruby.” Since 1612, this famous stone, called “Tribute of the World” in the East, has belonged to the same owners as the Kohinoor diamond. From the inscriptions still on the stone, we learned that this is the “ruby” that fell in the hands of the Tartar conquerer, Timur-i-leng (the lame Timur), or Tamerlaine, in Western countries, when he conquered Deli in 1398. Where the stone was mined will never be known, although Afghanistan has been suggested. It is a rather dark red and does not have facets, only the natural face was polished; hence, it is almost without brilliancy. It finally came into the hands of the

British East India Company in 1849 and was exhibited along with several smaller spinels in a necklace in the Great Exposition of 1851.

The stone weighs 361 carats. It was given to Queen Victoria and has remained in the Indian Room at Buckingham Palace, rather than with the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London; because of this, few persons have seen the stone and there are no known pictures of it.

Another famous spinel in the British Crown Jewels is the “Black Prince Ruby.” This stone weighs about 170 carats. It was first mentioned in 1367, when it formed part of the treasure of the King of Granada in Spain. Upon his death at the hand of Dom Pedro, it came into his possession. He, in turn, gave it to the Prince of Wales, also known as the Black Prince. The stone passed to the British Crown and was worn by Henry V in his coroneted helmet on the victorious day at Agincourt in 1415, when the helmet deflected the nearly fatal blow of the Duc d’ Alencon. Today, the stone is in the Imperial State Crown in the most conspicuous position in the front-center part of the headpiece.

A red spinel of more than 400 carats and

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cut in Oriental style forms the apex of the crown made for Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1762. It forms part of the Diamond Treasure of the Soviet Union in the Kremlin.

Large spinels are in the mineral collection of the British Museum of Natural History, including a polished stone of 520 carats taken during the war with China in 1861. One of the largest red spinels on display in the United States is a faceted stone of 71 carats in the American Museum of Natural History.

It is difficult to be sure of the derivation of the name spinal. It may be from the Latin “spinella,” the diminutive of “spina” (a thorn), from which we get our word spine. This word does not describe spinel crystals very well. It has been suggested that the word spinel may be from a Greek word meaning “spark.” In reference to the bright-red and bright-orange color of some natural crystals.

Most spinels that reach the jewelry trade have been polished in their country of origin. Because color is the main consideration, the cuts employed are not usually precise; therefore, the fine colors that warrant the expense are usually recut in the United States.

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Trail’s End

101 Years of The Denver Western Stock Show

The Wild West and Buffalo Bill Cody are synonymous when it comes to the adventurous American West. Arguably America’s first western showman, William F. Cody personified the West and endeared America as well as Europe to a by gone era.

While Buffalo Bill’s frontier exploits are legendary, the time spent from his Pony Express days to frontier Army scout, were only 12 years. Cody spent the next 35 years as frontier showman for audiences around the world. Out of this great showmanship idea, the National Western Stock Show was born.

This new venue, based in Denver, showcased the area’s prime livestock at an annual event that has been the pride of Denver for over 100 years. Denver, a cow town? You bet it is, once a year for 100 years and proudly so! Congratulations to the Denver Western Stock Show!

The following is a brief time line of the proud history of this great Denver story: 1899 — Livestock exhibits begin

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in Denver, but not on any regular basis.

1905 — A Livestock Commission is organized of merchants, stockyard executives, meat packers and cattlemen.

The exhibition site selected on South Platte River, is still the location of many exhibits shown today.

1906 — The first show opened on Monday, Jan. 29, and ran six days. Harry Petrie, superintendent of the Denver Stockyards was named the first general manager. Attendance was estimated at 15,000 with stockmen visiting from Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and points east. The first Grand Champion Steer sold for 33 cents a pound, a remarkable 23 cents over the market price. Street cars, horse drawn carriages, and special trains from Union Station brought most of the public to the show, where admission was free.

1907 — The Horse Division was added to the livestock show. A circus tent of sorts was used to host the show.

1909 — A new 6,000 seat amphitheater, hosted the livestock show.

The Denver Union Stockyard Company provided the facility, which still stands today. Admission was 25 cents. Cattle breeds included Aberdeen Angus, Hereford and Shorthorn.

1911 — Two and three story barns and a club building were constructed. The first poultry show was introduced.

1912 to 1914 — Extreme weather in Colorado and surrounding states, resulted in low attendance.

1915 — The entire week long event was canceled, the only time in its’ history, due to a hoof and mouth disease epidemic, which prohibited livestock from crossing state lines.

1916 — The Livestock Exchange Building opened as the main building for the Denver Union Stockyard Company.

1919 — The Brown Palace Hotel paid a record 50 cents a pound for the Grand Champion steer.

1922 — Children’s programs were added for public benefit.

1926 — What would become known as the Great Depression began to effect Colorado’s economy, and the Western Stock Show began years of struggle as well.

1932 — The 25th National Western presented the first rodeo, which became a highlighted tradition.

1941 — The Grand Champion Steer was exhibited by 12 year old Kenny Monfort of Greeley.

1942 — The WPA, a World War II work program, constructed a new barn on the facility, marking the first major capital improvement on the grounds in 10 years.

1943 — The show was confined to “local” participation due to travel and fuel limitations caused by World War II. The Executive Committee invests all profits in War Bonds.

1944 — The Quarter Horse Show made its debut at the show.

1945 — Two Hereford bulls owned by Dan Thornton, later Governor of Colorado, were sold for $50,000 each, a new record for breeding cattle at the time.

1947 — Denver taxpayers passed a $1.5 million bond issue for the building of the Denver Coliseum.

1953 — The Denver Coliseum opens for the 46th National Western Stock Show.

1956 — The Golden Anniversary of the National Western Stock Show, with entries second only to the record 1948 turnout.

1959 — Appaloosa horse classes were added to the Quarter Horses, Palominos and Arabian classes.

1966 — Livestock entries topped the 4,000 mark for the first time.

Charolais cattle were added to the Livestock Show.

1972 — Controversy abounded as “Big Mac,” the Grand Champion Steer was ruled ineligible. Previously entered at the American Royal Show in Kansas City as a white steer, Big Mac, had been dyed black for the National Western Stock Show.

1973 — The Hall of Education was opened to the public.

1975 — The National Sheep Shearing Contest became a part of the event.

1976 — A new attendance record of 240,000 and entries reached an all time high of 5,320.

1980 — A record 22 cattle breeds and bison were showcased. This was the first year of the bison show and sale.

1981 — Attendance soared to more than 360,000 when the show dates were increased to 12 days and included 21 Rodeo performances.

1985 — A downtown parade in advance of the show is revived.

1988 — The Stock Show was expanded to 14 days and attendance topped the half million mark for the first time.

1995 — The Events Center, a state-of-the-art equestrian arena with a 150 x 300 foot floor, was dedicated at the show. The Grand Champion steer and Reserve Champion were ruled ineligible due to the illegal use of the drug Clenbuterol.

1996 — The 90th National Western Stock Show was expanded to 16 days, with 23 Rodeo performances, 11 Horse Shows performances and two Mexican Rodeo Extravaganzas.

1997 — The National Western was selected as the world’s #1 Indoor Rodeo at the Pro Rodeo Cowboys’ Association convention.

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1998 — The Wild West Show, patterned after the great Buffalo Bill shows of yesteryear, made its debut, and two Professional Bull Riders (PBR) performances were added.

1999 — Olympic qualifying competition for the United States Equestrian Reining Horse Team makes its debut.

2000 — Miniature Hereford cattle were judged for the first time at the 2000 show.

2003 — A new record for breeding cattle entries was set at 4,491.

2004 — National Western became the first national stock show to host a bucking bull sale.

2005 — The National Western Stock Show added two Pro Rodeos to the slate of events for the first time in history.

The National Western Stock Show is indeed a history to be proud of in Denver and the American West. Happy 101 anniversary Western Stock Show! Buffalo Bill would be proud.

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Humor

The tragic tale of Flat Stanley The following is airline tickets. a true story. Only Maybe you’ve the facts have been hosted Stanley yourchanged to protect self. Classrooms evthe guilty. erywhere use Flat His name was Stanley paper cutStanley…Flat Stanouts in educational ley. He came to us projects.

Students in the mail, which is send him to friends an unusual way for a or relatives and after visitor to arrive. He his visit, hosts return

By Dorothy Rosby was around eight him with a journal drosby@rushmore.com inches tall and paand photographs of per thin. He was quiet, but he his adventures. At least, that’s smiled a lot. In fact, he smiled how it’s supposed to work. no matter how tough his life My niece the kindergargot. And it did get tough. ten teacher sent Stanley to us Flat Stanley is a paper doll shortly before Christmas. He based on a children’s book by came without a stitch of clothJeff Brown. In the story, Stan- ing so our first job was to dress ley Lambchop is flattened by a him. My husband colored him bulletin board, but he makes with magic markers and we set the most of his new physique. off to show him our life.

When he and his brother fly We photographed Stanley kites, he’s the kite. He slips un- at every stop we made along der doors into locked rooms, our eight-hour drive to visit and he travels by mail to visit relatives. We got some curious friends. And he travels a lot be- looks from other tourists when cause stamps are cheaper than Stanley and I posed next to an

interstate rest stop, but Stanly wasn’t embarrassed.

Once we arrived at my inlaws’, we showed him the sites in their town. He had the time of his life, though he never actually said so.

The first clue that we weren’t cut out to be host parents might have been when I dropped Stanley face down in the snow during a photoshoot. He wasn’t hurt, but the ink on his shirt smeared. I felt horrible, but he didn’t seem to mind.

Then we forgot him in the car on Christmas Day. He sat alone, cold and hungry while we were inside eating traditional Scandinavian fare. But he never complained. Maybe he doesn’t like lefse and lutefisk any more than I do.

Over New Year’s weekend we traveled to visit my family.

Again, we photographed Stanley at every stop along the way.

He’s very photogenic, except on windy days.

The museum we visited was filled with great photo ops. Stanley posed by statues, animals, and various modes of transportation. And that’s when tragedy struck.

Stanley had posed debonairly against the window of an antique car, but just before we could snap photos, he lost his balance and fell into the crack between the door and the window. Someone screamed, but I don’t think it was Stanley.

Just like that, he became part of the museum’s permanent collection, but a part that will never be seen again, unless there’s another sequel to Night at the Museum.

I was devastated. But my relatives, clearly better hosts than we are, came to the rescue. They enlarged one of the photos we’d taken and printed a new Stanley. And it’s actually better, though I’d never say that to the old one. He’s on card stock so he’s sturdier. And they

used a photo taken before the snow mishap, so his shirt isn’t smeared. Plus, they made us a couple of spares, just in case.

When we write up the notes about Flat Stanley’s visit we’ll leave out the parts where he suffered, and the new Stanley probably won’t mention them either. Among his many fine qualities is that he’s very discreet.

When he arrives at his kindergarten later this month, the students may not even realize he’s a clone. He looks a little taller than he was when he left and he’s definitely stronger.

Hard times will do that to you.

So will card stock.

(Dorothy Rosby is the author of the humor book, I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake from Scratch: Parenting Blunders from Cradle to Empty Nest. Contact drosby@ rushmore.com.)

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