General Note: Part of the CWA Pioneer Interviews Collection. Title supplied by cataloger. Consists of an interview of S.W. Allen, an early-day resident of Pueblo, Colorado. Leaving Louisville, Kentucky in 1869, Allen traveled to Colorado with his family, where they settled in Pueblo. Most of this interview consists of his recollections of early-day Pueblo, including its climate, the floods that would periodically take place, and the arrival of a number of railroads in the region. He relates that his family had been slave-holders in Kentucky, and that two of their ex-slaves had accompanied them to Pueblo but had soon grown homesick for Louisville and that his father had transported them to Denver and then paid their fare to return to Kentucky. He also relates how he had saved 10 horses during a flood and that an 11th horse in the stable in which he found himself had in turn saved him after he had rescued the other horses.
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