Sources:

Joseph L. Kingsbury, "The Pike's Peak Rush, 1859," The Colorado Magazine, January 1927.

Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson and Duane A. Smith, A Colorado History, 7th ed. (Boulder: Pruett, 1995)

Anthony Bott, Life and Reminiscences of Anthony Bott (undated manuscript), original in the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.

Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson and Duane A. Smith, A Colorado History, 7th ed. (Boulder: Pruett, 1995).

Manly Dayton Ormes and Eleanor R. Ormes, The Book of Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs: Dentan Printing Co., 1933).

Gazette Telegraph
February 21,1988 and March 13, 1992

Colorado Springs Farm News
November 11, 1932

Other Sources:

Dave Hughes, History of Colorado City, 1977

Paul Idleman

Dorothy Aldridge

Photographs:

Golden Cycle Ore reduction Illustration
artist unknown

Golden Cycle Mill burning on August 7, 1907. Ellis collection #93-1-51.

Golden Cycle Mill Photographer unknown