Pre - 1879
Ute Indian summer camps are located throughout the Roaring Fork Valley; Ute Springs, near present day Glory Hole Park, near the Gondola at Ute and Original Streets may have been a campsite. Colorado becomes a state in 1876. Custer and his troops are massacred at the Little Big Horn. Ute uprising at the White River Agency Ute Reservation, to be known as "The Meeker Massacre."

Colorow. Colorado State Historical Society Photo