Dedication of the historic marker of Arapahoe City, April 28, 1946
Courtesy Colorado Historical Society

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Colorado Historical Society, painting of John H. Gregory, from “Rush to the Rockies, Centennial Edition” by Agnes Wright Spring, Colorado Magazine, V. 36, #2, p. 105, April 1959.

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First People website (http://www.firstpeople.us), photograph of Chief Friday, 1869.

Gardner Family Collection, historical documentation and photographs.

Golden Globe, 8/16/1913.

Frank Hall, illustration of George A. Jackson, from History of Colorado, V. 1, 1889.

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Joyce A. Manley, Arapahoe City to Fairmount: From A Ghost Town To A Community (Boulder: Johnson Publishing Co., 1989).

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Francis B. Rizzari, “Notes on a Few Early Towns of Jefferson County”, Denver Westerners Brand Book, (1965), p. 237-238, 240-241.

Sara E. Robbins, Jefferson County Colorado: The Colorful Past of a Great Community (Lakewood: Jefferson County Bank, 1962), p. 5.

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Jerome C. Smiley, Semicentennial History of the State of Colorado, (Lewis, 1913), Volume 1.

Western Mountaineer, 12/14/1859, 1/11/1860, 2/8/1860, 7/19/1860.

George F. Willison, Here They Dug The Gold (New York/Chicago: A.L. Burt Company, 1931), p. 54.