Map (Sketch) of area covered in book (blocks 74 & 75)  	  x
Elwood Brooks						  1
Interstate Trust Building disappears		  	2-3
New Park Central complex				  3
Indian Camp at Cherry Creek and Platte River, 1858 	 13
House erected 1858 by A. Barker (inset)			 14
Map showing earliest buildings				 14
E. P. Stout's cabin, 1858				 15
Richard E. Whitsitt					 16
View of Denver, 1859					 17
Charley Harrison. . .best gun in the West		 18
William Newton Byers					 19
Major John S. Fillmore					 21
Waiting for parley with Indian chiefs, 1864		 22
William Denver McGaa. . .Denver's first born		 24
Home of William McGaa					 24
St. John's Episcopal Church in the Wilderness, ca. 1864	 25
The Countess Murat					 27
Drawing of Denver City and Auraria, 1860		 28
Drawing of the area, probably made in mid-sixties	 29
Map--Congressional Grat of 1864				 30
Cherry Creek the day after the flood of May 19, 1864	 31
Distribution of Lots, Block 74 -- 1858-59 		 32
Distrubution of Lots, Block 75 --  1858-59		 33
Mrs. John Evans						 34
Governor John Evans					 34
Judge Amos Steck					 35
Colorado Seminary					 36
Mayor and Mrs. Myron M.DeLano				 37
Presbyterian Church					 38
The fire laddies from Hook and Ladder No. 1		 40
Looking south from Larimer Stree along 15th Street	 42
Old Pacific House					 43
A. E. Mathews drawing of mid-sixties			 43
View north across Block 74				 44
Lawrence Street Methodist Church & Colorado Seminary	 44
Lawrence Street Methodist Church, 1864			 45
1865 nondescript shack lined 14th Street		 45
View from 14th and Arapahoe Streets about 1866		 46
An 1866 pencil sketch by Mathews--15th Street		 47
Photo of 15th Street about 1867				 47
Artist's conception as to what Blocks 74 and 75 looked
	like in the mid-1870s & a sketch showing 
	principal identifiable buildings		 48
Title in Lots after Congressional Act of 1864-Block 74	 50
Title in Lots after Congressional Act of 1864-Block 75	 51
The Central Station moved to 1543 Lawrence Street-1876	 52
David H. Moffat Jr as young man				 58
William L. Clayton					 60
George W. Clayton					 61
General Roger W. Woodbury				 64
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, king of the con men	 67
Union Station 1880-1894					 68
Big Ed Chase, gambler					 69
Joslin Dry Goods store, 1600 block of Lawrence Street	 69
The Union Block (2)					 73
Eugene Field						 74
Grocer-Mayor Wolfe Londoner and his wife		 75
The People's Bank Building about 1890 (2)		 76
Chamber of Commerce Building (2)			 77
Mining Exchange Building				 78
Robertson and Doll's carriage manufactory (2)		 79
Business block built by Dr. W. F. McClland in 1878	 80
Haish Building (1881)					 81
Home of the Salvation Army				 82
Troops train artillery on City Hall. . .		 83
Excite mobs assemble around City Hall. . .		 84
Denver University Conservatroy of Music, 1880		 85
Old Tramway barns at 13th & Arapahoe Streets		 88
Rodney Curtis, father of the Tramway			 89
Drawing of Prof. Short's first electric car		 90
Short Electric cars near 15th & Lawrence Streets, 1887	 90
Three electric cars cross Lawrence St on 15th		 91
Cable car near 15th & Lawrence Streets, 1890's		 92
Interior of Robertson & Doll Carriage Co.		 93
George Turner & daughter Blanche			 94
Denver renewal project . . . 1910			 96
Willias M. Marshall, a founder of the Central Bank	 97
Tramway's car barns					 97
D & F tower under construction, 16th & Arapahoe Streets	 98
Two views of the "Loop" and Hurlburt's			101
Passenger board cars at the Central Loop		102
Tramway ticket office					103
Tortoni's Restaurant 1500 block Arapahoe Street		104
Aerial view of downtown Denver about 1930		104
Passengers wait at the Arapahoe Street Loop		104
Daniels & Fisher Tower stood tall and proud		105
Interior of three-deck car barns			105
"Mizpah" arch at Union Station				106
Snowstorm of 1913					107
"Moffat Tunnel" built in a snowdrift, 1913		108
Overturned street cars in labor riots of 1920		110
Aerail photo showing Mining Exchange Bldg., etc.	112
Looking north from 1400 blk. of Arapahoe Street, 1910	113
Daniels & Fisher draped for Elks convention, 1911	115
Car 25 leaves for trip to Golden about 1949		115
Aerial view of downtown Denver w/buildings identified	116
Old Miner hoisted down, June 1963			117
June 3, 1950. The end of the street car era in Denver	120
Old Miner dominated skylin for more than 70 years (2)	128
New Park Central complex, Brooks Towers, etc.		129
Bill Brenneman					 Back Cover

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