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- Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start
- Prowers Journal Alert Winner Claims Prize
- Public Invited to Meet City Administrator Candidates this Thursday
- LUB Reviews Financials, Approves Scholarship Renewals
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Motel Lodger’s Tax Proposed to Lamar City Council for November Ballot
- Lamar Teen Center Moving to Lincoln Elementary School
- Lamar 18 & Under Team Wins Merchants Park Tournament
Tag Archives: Santa Fe Trail
Octoberfest – The Celebration of Autumn
It’s been said that Octoberfest is a celebration in the old country where men who were unmarried gathered to find a bride for the winter. True or not, this writer can’t imagine a more time worn effort made by women to find a men. The provision of plenty of beer and food would bring men running like no woman could do, and after they’ve had their fill, a woman would have her choice of men – most likely who would never imbibe again.
Posted in Back Roads, Community Development, Crossroads of Connection, Madonna of the Trail, Music, Santa Fe Trail, Tourism, Tourists, Weather, Wind Generators
Tagged Back Roads, Colorado, crossroads of America, Lamar, Madonna of the Trail, Octoberfest, Santa Fe Trail, Wind Generators
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Oprah Winfrey Visited Lamar, Colorado
In case you’re wondering what happens when celebrities show up in Lamar, Colorado – check out this visit by Oprah Winfrey and her friend Gail, along with various makeup artists and camera men, as they’re leaving the Cow Palace Inn on the North end of Lamar, along US Highway 50 and US Highway 287, before you cross the Arkansas River. They got some story to tell about their visit on the Santa Fe Trail – heck yeah they found 22 caliber shotgun shells(according to Oprah’s friends), someone probably thought they saw a rattle snake! We shoot rattle snakes in these parts. Don’t tell Oprah, but had she stuck around, she’d have found out the folks around Lamar were probably as disgusted by her narrow minded attitude as she was by the so-called ratty hotel. Those rats were probably specially trained rats brought in just for her benefit! If indeed it was a ratty hotel back then… Sponsored by:
Santa Fe Trail – All Roads Lead Home
At the heart of America, Lamar, Colorado sits resolutely on the Santa Fe Trail, a cross roads of sorts that brings all to the heartland. Did you ever wonder where you could go that literally brings all roads home? The Santa Fe Trail offers more than simply a trail upon which cattle were driven, wagons wound their way through vast grasslands to travel the trail westward home. From St.Louis Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico, the Santa Fe Trail rolls across grass lands and prairie, mountain and hillside, leaving trenches where wagon wheels trod. The Chisholm Trail crosses somewhere near Lamar Colorado – from south Texas where cattle met the railroad and traveled east to feed the mass multitudes of people. No matter where you are in the United States, the bottom line is – Lamar, Colorado, where All Roads and Back Roads – they all lead home.
Posted in Back Roads, Big Timbers Museum, History, Madonna of the Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Tourism, Travel
Tagged All Roads Lead Home, Back Roads, Santa Fe Trail
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