In “Denver,” popular author Mark A. Barnhouse, known for his histories of the city’s retailing establishments and 17th Street, concentrates on commercial street views.
Curtis Street once was aglow with so many lightbulbs it was called “Denver’s Great White Way.” It is now a strip of sedate office buildings. Lakeside has fared better: Its tower is still there minus a few light bulbs.
The most important aspect of the job, Harbecker writes in this tale of a life serving the national parks, was safety, and that included fighting crime. In 1980, when he was at Yosemite, there were 16 homicides, 69 rapes, 294 robberies, 643 assaults and 1,552 burglaries in the national park system, and that’s only gone up. He relates the heartbreaking story of rangers and other searchers spending weeks hunting for a teenage girl who’d wandered off from her campsite.
The author’s great-grandfather, Omer Kem, was the author of an 11-volume autobiography that paralleled the rise and fall of populism. Kem was a study in contrasts. As a member of the U.S. Congress, he was an outspoken advocate of Indian rights. Yet he homesteaded on land taken from Native Americans. His daughter was mentally challenged, still, Kem was a proponent of eugenics — the act of sterilizing the mentally ill, the poor and other “undesirables.
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