On the morning of Aug. 15, 1876, Judge Amherst Stone left Golden on a northbound Colorado Central Railroad train to Boulder, where he was expected to…
Sources: Colorado Newsline (nonprofit statehouse newsroom)
An 1876 Colorado ‘railroad war’ climaxed with the kidnapping of a federal judge
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