%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en Creede http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/creede <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Creede</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-article-image--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-article-image.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-article-image.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * 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<!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--image.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--body.html.twig x field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>An estimated 10,000 silver-seekers rushed to Creede in the first two years after its 1891 founding, squeezing the town in between towering cliffs.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/content/node--image--article-detail-image.html.twig' --> </div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--field-article-image--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- 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<!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>The last of Colorado’s great silver strikes, the town of Creede boomed after its namesake, Nicholas Creede, discovered silver along Willow Creek in 1889. An estimated 10,000 people poured into the narrow valley before the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/panic-1893">Panic of 1893</a> sent the town into a tailspin. Once crawling with miners and a dozen towns, the area is now sparsely populated, with Rio Grande <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/us-forest-service-colorado">National Forest</a> and the Big Blue, La Garita, Weminuche, and Wheeler Wilderness Areas covering 90 percent of <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/mineral-county">Mineral County</a>. With a 2020 Census of 257 residents, Creede (at 8,799 feet) is the county’s only incorporated town. Today tourism, logging, hunting, and fishing are the town’s economic mainstays.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Early Settlement</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Indigenous people settled along the upper Rio Grande and its tributaries. Archaeological evidence shows that people camped in the area for more than 15,000 years. Beginning around the sixteenth century, the Nuche (<a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/search/google/ute">Ute</a>) people dominated the area and much of the rest of central and western Colorado. White Americans arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century during the <a href="http://www.coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-gold-rush">Colorado Gold Rush</a>, and a <a href="http://www.coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/ute-treaty-1868">treaty in 1868</a> reserved the western third of what is now Colorado for the Nuche. White prospectors ignored treaty provisions to stay out of the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/san-juan-mountains">San Juan Mountains</a>. Their continued incursions eventually led the US government to take the San Juans from the Nuche via the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/brunot-agreement">Brunot Agreement</a> of 1873. Over the next decade, many of Colorado’s Nuche bands were forced to go to Utah, with the remaining bands forced onto two small reservations in the southwest corner of the state—the Southern Ute Reservation centered on Ignacio and the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/ute-history-and-ute-mountain-ute-tribe">Ute Mountain Utes</a> around Towaoc.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Holy Moses</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>After the Utes were forced out, white prospectors continued searching for minerals in the San Juans. They found it in <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/silverton-0">Silverton</a>, <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/telluride">Telluride</a>, and Ouray, which became boom towns during the 1870s and 1880s. In 1889 veteran prospector Nicholas C. Creede was searching with others on Willow Creek, three miles above its junction with the Rio Grande. “Holy Moses!” shouted Creede, finding a quartz ore loaded with silver. That strike gave birth to the town named for him. The boom town soon replaced Wason as the Mineral County seat. Nicholas Creede also struck pay dirt with the Amethyst Mine, which produced $2 million in its first year. He sold his Holy Moses Mine to <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/david-h-moffat">David H. Moffat</a>, president of the Denver &amp; Rio Grande Railroad, and his partner Eben Smith for $70,000. In 1891 Moffat built a spur line to Creede from Wagon Wheel Gap, which he claimed paid for itself within the first four months of operation.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Creede’s principal mines lay on Campbell Mountain and Bachelor Hill, north of town, where head frames and mill ruins still cling to steep canyon walls. Large milling and mining structures also top the seven-story-high timber cribbing at the upper end of Main Street, which braced the Amethyst, Last Chance, and Commodore Mines. These bonanzas made Creede briefly a rival of <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/leadville">Leadville</a> and <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/aspen">Aspen</a> in silver production.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Cardboard Chaos</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Seven mining camps once thrived in the extremely narrow gorge of Willow Creek: Amethyst, Bachelor, Creede, Jimtown, North Creede, Stringtown, and Weaver. Born in a silver rush, Creede was a wild child. Saloons, dance halls, and brothels opened in tents to capitalize on the rush. As journalist Richard Harding Davis observed in <em>The West from a Car Window</em> (1892), Creede had “hundreds of little pine boxes of houses and log-cabins, and the simple quadrangles of four planks which mark a building site. . . . There is not a brick, a painted front, nor an awning in the whole town. It is like a city of fresh card-board.”</p>&#13; &#13; <p>This “card-board” town squeezed between towering basaltic spires was scorched by fierce fires and drowned by several major floods. But nothing could stop the constant hubbub of mining and ore processing, gambling, and carousing in some thirty saloons strung out along Willow Creek. Creede attracted a rogue’s gallery of western characters, including Poker Alice Tubbs, Bob Ford, Calamity Jane, <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/william-">Bat Masterson</a> (who briefly served as Creede’s marshal), and con man Soapy Smith. Many brides of the mining masses showed up, too, including Killarney Kate, Lillis Lovell, Marie Contassot, Slanting Annie, and Timberline Rose Vastine, a six-foot-tall woman who towered over most of her customers.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><em>Rocky Mountain News</em> veteran Cy Warman launched <em>The Creede Candle</em> newspaper in 1892. He published his poem “Creede,” an homage to the bustling village beneath “solid silver cliffs.” The poem captured the feverish boom-town attitude with the line “there is no night in Creede,” which is now etched into local lore.  </p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Mines Bust</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>The optimism beaming from Warman’s poem soon faded, however, as fame and fortune proved especially fleeting for this silver city. The 1893 repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and subsequent silver crash, along with fires and floods, devastated the town. Creede never became a ghost town, although the boom was over and its population declined. After 1900 Creede stayed alive by relying increasingly on lead and zinc in its ores. Evidence that Creede limped along as a more sober and mature settlement survives in its Queen Anne–style Congregational Church (1905) and its Gothic vernacular Episcopal Church (1907). Mining activity ticked up during <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-world-war-i">World War I</a> but declined again in the early 1920s. Some mines hung on, such as the Bulldog, which operated as late as 1985.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Today</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Thanks to a superb summer theater, a unique underground museum, an artist colony, and fabulous scenery and recreational opportunities, the town rebounded after the 1960s as a summer resort. The Creede Repertory Theatre, established in 1966, is one of the oldest and most highly rated in the state and has inspired many Colorado mountain towns to start their own. Thanks to landscape artist and longtime Creede celebrity Stephen Quiller and his art schools, Creede has become a haven for painters. The <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/creede-railroad-depotmuseum">Creede Historical Museum</a> opened in 1962 in the old Denver &amp; Rio Grande Railroad depot.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Creede remains the only town in Mineral County. Its remote location, far from beaten paths and major highways, has made it a tourist target, at least in summer. The Rio Grande and its tributaries provide excellent opportunities for fly fishing, and its headwaters in the Weminuche Wilderness is a favorite area for hikers. The spectacular scenery has attracted Hollywood for films such as <em>The Shootist</em> (1976) with John Wayne, <em>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</em> (2007) with Brad Pitt, and <em>The Lone Ranger</em> (2013) with Johnny Depp.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>  Mining’s legacy remains in Creede. In 2008 the EPA established a Superfund site at Nelson Tunnel/Commodore Waste Rock Pile about one mile north of Creede, where the tunnel discharges acid mine drainage into West Willow Creek. The EPA has begun rehabilitation work to prevent a blowout like the one that occurred at the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/gold-king-mine-spill">Gold King Mine</a> near <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/silverton-0">Silverton</a> in 2015. It has also stabilized the Commodore Waste Rock Pile to reduce the chance of washouts and contamination. At the same time, in 2011, Hecla Mining acquired the Bulldog Mine and started drilling to evaluate prospective veins for future mining.</p>&#13; </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/noel-thomas-j" hreflang="und">Noel, Thomas J.</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/creede" hreflang="en">Creede</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/nicholas-creede" hreflang="en">nicholas creede</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/david-h-moffat" hreflang="en">David H. Moffat</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/silver-mining" hreflang="en">silver mining</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/creede-historical-society" hreflang="en">creede historical society</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/creede-repertory-theatre" hreflang="en">Creede Repertory Theatre</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>Edwin Lewis Bennett and Agnes Wright Spring. <em>Boom Town Boy in Old Creede Colorado</em> (Chicago: Sage Books, 1966).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>William H. Emmons and Esper S. Larsen, <em>Geology and the Ore Deposits of the Creede District, Colorado</em> (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1923).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Charles A. Harbert, <em>Creede, Colorado History: Insights and Views through Postcards and Photographs</em> (Wellington, CO: Vestige Press, 2010).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Cornelius Hauck, “Creede!,” in <em>Colorado Rail Annual No. 14: Narrow Gauge in the San Juans</em> (Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1979).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Richard C. Huston, <em>A Silver Camp Called Creede: A Century of Mining</em> (Montrose, CO: Western Reflections, 2005).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>John LaFont, <em>58 Years Around Creede</em> (Alamosa, CO: Sangre de Cristo Printing, 1971).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Florence McCarty, “I Remember Creede,” <em>San Luis Valley Historian </em>30, no. 3 (1992).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Nolie Mumey, <em>Creede: The History of a Silver Town</em> (Denver: Artcraft Press, 1949).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>“<a href="https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0802630">Nelson Tunnel/Commodore Waste Rock, Creede, CO</a>,” Superfund, Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Mary F. Schroder, <em>Nicholas Creede and the Amethyst Vein</em> (Creede, CO: Bonanza Books, 2004).</p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p><a href="https://creedehistoricalsociety.com/index.html" title=" (external link)">Creede Historical Society</a></p>&#13; &#13; <p><a href="https://www.museumtrail.org/creede-history-museum" title=" (external link)">Creede History Museum</a> (San Luis Valley Museum Association)</p>&#13; &#13; <p><a href="https://creederep.org/">Creede Repertory Theatre</a></p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:02:52 +0000 yongli 3726 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org David H. Moffat Private Car (“Marcia”) http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/david-h-moffat-private-car-marcia <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">David H. Moffat Private Car (“Marcia”)</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/yongli" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">yongli</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2015-09-10T16:30:55-06:00" title="Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 16:30" class="datetime">Thu, 09/10/2015 - 16:30</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/david-h-moffat-private-car-marcia" data-a2a-title="David H. Moffat Private Car (“Marcia”)"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fdavid-h-moffat-private-car-marcia&amp;title=David%20H.%20Moffat%20Private%20Car%20%28%E2%80%9CMarcia%E2%80%9D%29"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>The “Marcia” railroad car served as the private car of <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/david-h-moffat"><strong>David H. Moffat</strong></a> (1839–1911), a prominent banker and builder of <strong>railroads</strong> in Colorado in the late nineteenth century. The luxurious car represents Moffat’s interest in railroads and his effort to tie Colorado to the national rail network. “Marcia” now stands permanently in the city of Craig in <strong>Moffat County</strong>, which was named for Moffat and was connected to <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/search/google/Denver"><strong>Denver</strong></a> by one of his many railroads.</p> <p>Moffat was born in Washingtonville, New York. He gained experience in banking at a young age then came to Colorado in 1860. With C. C. Woolworth, he started a book and stationery business in Denver, and in 1867 he joined the First National Bank, where he eventually rose to president. Throughout the late nineteenth century, however, he was known primarily for his work organizing and building railroads to connect Denver to the rest of the country.</p> <p>Over the years Moffat played an instrumental role in the Denver Pacific Railway, which connected Denver to the Union Pacific Railroad at Cheyenne, Wyoming; the Denver and New Orleans Railroad, which connected Denver to the Gulf of Mexico; and the Denver, South Park &amp; Pacific Railroad, which forged a quicker connection between Denver and the mining district at Leadville. He also served as the first president of the Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western Railroad. In 1902 he founded the <a href="/article/denver-northwestern-pacific-railway-hill-route-moffat-road"><strong>Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad</strong></a>, known as the “Moffat Line,” and he spent his final years working to build the railroad west from Denver to Salt Lake City.</p> <p>In 1906 Moffat bought a private car from the Pullman Company, known for its luxurious sleepers. Richly appointed with leather upholstery and African mahogany, the car cost $24,568. It could sleep twelve people and featured a specially designed dinner table that could seat twelve. Moffat named the car “Marcia” after his daughter. He used it to inspect his railroad line and to interest potential investors.</p> <p>Moffat did not live to see the completion of a railroad from Denver to Salt Lake City. He died in 1911, two years before the railroad reached Craig. Forty years later, Wilson H. McCarthy, president of the Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western Railroad, gave the “Marcia” car to Craig in recognition of Moffat’s efforts to connect northwestern Colorado to Denver by rail. The car was officially presented to the city on August 1, 1953, in a ceremony that drew more than 800 people from the community.</p> <p>The car served as Craig’s Chamber of Commerce until 1981, when the chamber outgrew the car’s limited space. The chamber continues to own the car, which sits on a short stretch of rails in downtown Craig, and conducts regular tours of the car for visitors.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/encyclopedia-staff" hreflang="und">Encyclopedia Staff</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/david-h-moffat" hreflang="en">David H. Moffat</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/craig" hreflang="en">Craig</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/railroads" hreflang="en">railroads</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/denver-northwestern-and-pacific-railroad" hreflang="en">Denver Northwestern and Pacific Railroad</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/pullman-company" hreflang="en">Pullman Company</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>“David H. Moffat Car,” Colorado Cultural Resource Survey (July 6, 1981).</p> <p>Ersel G. Deakins, “David H. Moffat Private Car,” National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form (1975).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p>Edward Taylor Bollinger, <em>Rails That Climb: A Narrative History of the Moffat Road</em>, ed. William C. Jones (1950; repr., Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1994).</p> <p>Harold A. Boner, <em>The Giant’s Ladder: David H. Moffat and His Railroad</em> (Milwaukee: Kalmbach, 1962).</p> <p>P. R. Griswold, <em>David Moffat’s Denver, Northwestern and Pacific: “The Moffat Road”</em> (Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1995).</p> <p>Steven F. Mehls, “David H. Moffat, Jr.: Early Colorado Business Leader” (PhD diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1982).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:30:55 +0000 yongli 617 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org