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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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