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Colorful Coloradoans
EHT5 Task 602.4.19-06 etc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Silver King | Horace Tabor |
| Established the first Colorado Newspaper, The Rocky Mountain News | William Byers |
| First Hispanic Mayor | Federico Pena |
| Founded the Opportunity School. | Emily Griffith |
| Author of "Ramona" | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| The first female medical professor at John's Hopkins and medical reformer in Colorado | Florence Sabin |
| The "Manassa Mauler" | Jack Dempsey |
| Only American Indian to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate | Ben Nighthorse Campbell |
| Denver Broncos Quarterback | John Elway |
| In 1912 became Denver's only full-time female police officer; Inherited and ran the Rocky Mtn. Fuel Co. | Josephine Roche |
| Angel of the Rockies | Aunt Clara Brown |
| A hero in fact and fiction; American frontiersman, guide, trapper,and Indian Scout | Kit Carson |
| The "Snowshoe Itinerant" | Father Dyer |
| Famous one-armed Civil War hero; Led an expedition on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon | John Wesley Powell |
| Wrote "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains", famous travel writer | Isabella Bird |
| "The White Man's Friend | Chief Ouray |
| Southern Cheyenne Chief who escaped the Sand Creek Massacre only to succumb to raid on his own village by Custer's army | Black Kettle |
| "The most dangerous woman in America" | Mother Jones |
| Astronaut and Aquanaut | Scott Carpenter |
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