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The record of 1879

The dossiers whose walls went up in 1879 — ordered by the weight of what has been filed, not by when the stories caught up. Part of the 1870s.

Victorian house museum with history and staff-led paranormal interpretation.

Horace Tabor’s silver opera house—at 10,000 feet, the town’s grandest room.

The 1879 territorial asylum—the Dakota Hospital for the Insane.

The Kansas asylum whose scandal ended it—and whose cemetery is a memorial.

Small surviving railroad and ranching settlement.