Colorado Experience: Last Stop 'til Denver

Built by the Brantner Brothers in 1859, Four Mile House is the oldest standing structure in Denver, with a long history of female entrepreneurialism. In its early days, the house served as a store, restaurant, tavern and boarding house for travelers headed west along the Smokey Hill Trail. From Mary Cawker to Millie Booth, meet the pioneering women whose hard work and vision brought the stage stop to life.
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[@judyl.761]

Great video! Please let’s always preserve this important historic place. It’s our national soul.

[@germaineprien7691]

I'm so glad as a Coloradoan that this very precious property was preserved as a unique part of our history!!! Kudos all!! 👍🤗

[@almeggs3247]

I pray the Booths and Mary Cocker are appreciative for your dedication to their struggles and keeping it alive for future generations!

[@christianfrommuslim]

Excellent. Thank you! Don't let 4-mile House be culture cancelled!

[@bobbrooks80]

My house, the first owner was 1844, the second was in 1868. the third was in 1917 and I bought in 1983. Love my house.

[@TheKonga88]

Enjoy it while you still can because there is a storm coming.. You are obviously very proud of what your people did to us natives.. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🔥🔥🔥🔥🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

[@allandavis8201]

Kunta Kinte, Honestly I don’t believe you are an indigenous person, why? I hear you ask, well, because of your screen name, I can’t see any self respecting indigenous person using the name Kunta Kinte” I have only ever heard it being used in tv shows and films about the “Lone Ranger” and I believe is widely held as being derogatory towards indigenous peoples, so come on, are you really a Native American or just a troll looking for an opportunity to be, well, a Troll. As for your prediction of a “storm coming” you are 100% correct, but I don’t think it is quite what you were looking for or expected, the Covid19 pandemic is upon the world, and I doubt anyone saw it coming, we will all have to wait and see if your prediction comes true with the breakdown of society occurring with civil unrest,prisoners rioting, troops on the streets and shortages of everything we take for granted, be careful what you wish for, sometimes wishes become reality, a reality that bites us all in the derrière.

[@BobkatTheBugMan]

Buy a metal detector and check your property for relics

[@bethbabson913]

Norma is 😈

[@diggingthewest7981]

@@BobkatTheBugMan I grew up in the Patrick House at the Genesee Buffalo ranch which was a stage stop. I found lots of cool things with the metal detector, neatest thing was the six shot pepperbox pistol barrel.

[@karenkeefe467]

A very nice look at the role these homes played in the needs of travelers. It helps us keep connected to our history.

[@TheScottier100]

Thank you so much for these insitesto American history. Love this channel

[@stealtheli]

I will always wonder. What has become of my Uncle's house. 40th and Adams ish. His house was a farmhouse. My family has been in Colorado for generations. I have found this channel with in the last month. Thank you for the content.

[@whatsgood7133]

Thank you for uploading

[@maggiepatterson7949]

unforgettable experience...IF they survived!

[@hellslakepublishing]

i live about 1/4 mile from this great place

[@womanclothedinthesunq7574]

Thank you 😊.

[@darrellsadler2848]

Just one more reason to APPRECIATE where I now LIVE!

[@deepfried4185]

Robert Gardea no u

[@E180TEKNO]

Fascinating

[@adamheskett6245]

Also there is a 17 mile house that is a preserved ranch with walking path to cherry creek.

[@christianfrommuslim]

Don't let them burn it!

[@darrellsadler2848]

To ME these type of places served as early "WESTERN MOTELS". See: Colfax Avenue.

[@zacharybowen4247]

No originally it was almost entirely residential. Business didn't start to take over until much later.

[@mickeyrodriguez425]

Save History

[@mtngrammy6953]

Lovely video. Too bad they don't tell you where it is so interested people can go to visit!

[@DrewSohl]

Thankgoodness for people like this.Greedy builders will cover unwanted and unneeded condos everywhere.🐴

[@ohmeowzer1]

My great great uncle was silver dollar Tabor

[@zacharybowen4247]

silver dollar Tabor was Horace and Baby Does youngest DAUGHTER

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Sad there isn't any history books anymore people can learn from the past.

[@albertbegin5119]

You'll find all the books on Colorado history at the History Colorado Center in Denver or just ask your local librarian.

[@TheKonga88]

@@albertbegin5119 Oh, you mean those stories which were made up to fool the gullible masses? You are all cursed for what you did to our people.. You know, the 100,000,000 you slaughtered? 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🔥🔥🔥🔥🐜🐜🐜🐜🏡🏡

[@albertbegin5119]

@@TheKonga88 Could you be more specific - with citations and your sources? Presumably you are not one of the gullible masses so I would like to learn from your wisdom and objectivity.

[@TheKonga88]

@@albertbegin5119 I've just given you facts.. Corpses speak louder than any books.. GO to the mountain of Zargoolseey and all will be revealed if you open your mind! If not, you are also cursed.. 🔓🔓🚪🚪👺👺💀💀🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃👪👪👪👪👪👪👬👫👭👫👭🏊🏊🏊👢👢

[@albertbegin5119]

@@TheKonga88 I 'm thinking that you must be very young. Eventually you will, I trust, appreciate that their are good and evil deeds committed by every culture. Just because someone inhabits a certain culture does not mean that they subscribe it. Even if they do people can and often do change. Think apartheid vs today's south Africa, Viking marauders as forebears of today's Scandinavians. History has been said to be written by the victors of conflicts BUT archaeology reveals what was not written or memorialized. If hate stops now, with you, you can change the world.

[@maggiepatterson7949]

DUSTY - choaking dusk, HOT, humid...ugh!

[@BrodyYYC]

Lol the used carbon dating to determine the house was built either 1858 or 1859? I haven't looked into the science of carbon dating recently but I don't think you can date things to an accuracy of 2 years.

[@zacharybowen4247]

I don't think it was carbon dateing. It was educated guess. Denver was founded November 22, 1858. So the house had to be built around that time

[@peterroberts2737]

Dendrochronology is the most exact way of dating the wood but not the structure

[@DougGrinbergs]

1:45 program proper.

[@christian7200]

Jeeeez 180 proof with gunpowder 😂

[@MsLemon1971]

What about the people that were here prior to the settlers? Some of us acclimated as being Native Americans and the Spaniards whom also migrated here from the Santa Fe trail.

[@christianfrommuslim]

See their documentary on "Women of the Santa Fe Trail." They honor Native American and black women.

[@missmarya747]

Arent These the same settlers that went thru sand creek -Native Americans territory/homes.???

[@tplyons5459]

Too bad you left Golden out of this history.

[@mr.be.5630]

AMERU KHAN LAND

[@liverpoolishgirl]

Please... lose the 'music.' Thank you.