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Activities/Attractions
-Celestial Seasonings Tours
-Coors Brewery Tours
-Hot
Air Balloning
-Olympic Training Center
-Pikes Peak
-River Rafting
-Seven Falls
-Gambling
--Casinos
--Dog Racing
--Horse Racing
Arts & Theater
-Chataqua Park
-Flying W Ranch
-Mayor's Office of Arts, Culture, & Film
-Sangre De Cristo Arts & Conference Center
Colorado Museums
-Astor House Museum
-Black American West Museum
-Byers-Evans House Museum
-El Pueblo Museum
-Golden Pioneer Museum
-Healy House Museum
-National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
-Natural History Museum
-Territorial Prison Museum
-Trinidad Museum
-Ute Indian Museum
Colorado Historic Sites
-Anasazi Cliff Dwellings
-Buffalo Bill's Grave
-Fourmile Park
-Fort Garland
-Georgetown Railroad
-Mollie Kathleen Goldmine
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The Black American West Museum & Heritage Center's
mission and goals are the interpreting, collecting, housing, displaying,exhibiting,
and preserving of histrical artifacts, documents and other memorabilia
which tell the history and relate the stories of Black men and women
who helped settle and develop the great American West. This approach
allows visual artistic inculcation of the rich and colorful contributions
of Black pioneers in the western United States. We tell it like
it was!
Little Known Facts:
Nearly a third of cowboys in the building of
the American West were black.
Black families came West in covered wagons;
established self-sufficient all-Black towns, filling every job from
barber to teacher, state legislator to doctor.
African Americans were some of the West's earliest
millionaires, owning much of the West's most valuable real estate
and many of its prominent businesses.
One of the first gold discoveries in Idaho
Springs, Colorado was made by Henry Parker, a Black mine owner.
Blacks were also military heroes, taking San
Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. It is
a little known fact that the all-Black 10th Cavalry should really
be credited with that victory.
Yes African American people played a major role in the settling
and shaping of the American West. Yet, until now, this story has gone
virtually untold. From the early fur trade until today, the museum's
exhibits document this history, with a special emphasis on Colorado
and early Denver. It is a story not found in history books, but we
tell it like it was.
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