120 years ago: Railroad employee nearly killed by train On Feb. 23, 1904 Herbert Sallee, a Colorado & Southern Railway station agent and telegraph operator at Kokomo, came near to meeting instant death and was.
125 years ago: Snow keeps trains out of Breckenridge for nearly two weeks to date It has been just under two weeks since the last train was seen coming over the Boreas Pass from Como,.
The bright lights of the big top circus tent were home to Lucia Zora, one of America’s premiere celebrity circus performers of the early 20th century. Her dangerous acts with lions, tigers and elephants catapulted.
More than one thousand digitized editions of Summit Daily News from its inception in August 1989 through mid-November 1994 can now be found at ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org. The work is part of a multiyear project to digitize.