Ep 11 ⛏Colorado Gold, 👩‍🍼Tragedy, & Gus🚂

01/01/24 • 39 min

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : Unbelievable True Stories

Life in the late 1800’s was frequently just inexplicably tragic, as Edward Augustus Boardman and Catherine Fitzsimmons discovered in their lives together. Though they had financial success, attempting to raise children was nearly the end of them emotionally. The plans we have aren’t always what God has in mind for us. As hard as we try, sometimes we are just called to go through things. Such was the life of the Boardman family from Golden, Colorado. (💍Est. 1881❤️)
CHARACTERS: (in order of mention)
Edward Augustus “Gus” Boardman
Lewis Boardman
Mary Frances Riffier
Catherine Fitzsimmons
Jacob Blickensderfer
Frances Agnes Boardman
Catherine Isabella Boardman
Edward “Eddie” Augustus Boardman
William Greeneberry Russell
Susan “Sukie” Jane Willis
Cherokee
James W. Denver
Jefferson Territorial Legislature
President James Buchanan
Robert Miller Womack (Crazy Bob)
Winfield Scott Stratton
WIlliam Henry Channing
Victor Adams
Harry Woods
Frank Woods
Warren Woods
Jack Dempsey
Nellie Marguerite Boardman
George S. Sheffield
Dr. Carlin
Dr. Delaney
Billy Sullivan
Sisters of Loretto
Kahlil Gibran
LOCATIONS: (in order of mention)
Buffalo, New York
France
Wales
New York State
Colorado
Union Pacific Railroad
Denver, Colorado
Kanturk, Ireland
Golden, Colorado
Georgetown Loop
Devil’s Gate High Bridge
Silver Plume, Colorado
Clear Creek
Rocky Mountains
Boston
Salt Lake City
Las Vegas
California
Territory of Jefferson
Cripple Creek
Kansas
Territory of Kansas
South Platte River Valley
Cherry Creek
South Platte River
Little Dry Creek
Pikes Peak Gold Rush
Arapahoe County
Nebraska Territory
New Mexico Territory
Utah Territory
South Platte River Basin
El Paso County
Territory of Colorado
Teller County
Victor, Colorado
Cripple Creek District
Colorado Volcanic Field
Mount Pisgah
Independence Lode
Colorado Springs, Colorado’
Mt. Rosa Mining, Milling & Land Company
Battle Mountain
City of Mines
Gold Coin Mine
Stratton’s Independence Mine and Mill
Portland Mine (Queen of the District)
Boardman Block General Store
Michigan
Loretta Heights Acadamy
Downing Street, Denver, Colorado
Chama Street
LINKS:
Family Vacation footage of Georgetown loop
https://youtu.be/oyvCYnnc8xI

Spending a day in Georgetown Colorado
https://youtu.be/qpKn9SBsr5Q

1903 silent footage of the Georgetown loop
https://youtu.be/ZRzfxP4gWB4

CREDITS:
Kahlil Gibran, On Death
Kahlil Gibran, On Children

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Spending a day in Georgetown Colorado
https://youtu.be/qpKn9SBsr5Q

1903 silent footage of the Georgetown loop
https://youtu.be/ZRzfxP4gWB4

CREDITS:
Kahlil Gibran, On Death
Kahlil Gibran, On Children

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Ep 10 📞The Phone Call : 🐎Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

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Brothers are an indispensable part of country life for me. Mine has been ready at a moments notice for just about any wacky idea, adrenaline moment, project, rescue, or emergency. Its important to note that family history isnt just something that happened 50 or 100 years ago. Family history is a daily event. If you’re apt to retelling a story 3 or more times, and its recounted at family reunions, make sure its written up and preserved. As Gerrit Gong recently stated, “We each have a story. As we discover our story, we connect, we belong, we become.” Family history is just as much about becoming ourselves today, as it is about feeling those who’ve gone before us in the yesterdays of the past.
CHARACTERS
Gerrit Walter Gong
Justin Heaton
Pete Mangum
Uncle Grant Heaton
Aaron Heaton
Allen Heaton
Bishop Heaton
Douberley
Mr. Cook
Neil L. Anderson
Russell Brunson
Jon Acuff
LOCATIONS
North Rim Grand Canyon
Moccasin, Arizona
M Hill
Boy Scout Cave
Mohave County Courthouse
Arizona State Highway 389
Colorado City, Arizona
Church of Jesus Christ
Pipe Valley
Red Cliffs Chevron
Pipe Springs National Monument
Panguitch, Utah

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Ep 12 😇Angel on the Train🚂& the Black Widow 🕷

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In an “off script experience” tales both wild and wacky are told from the research of the Boardman history. The wild unbelievable story is told of the widow who lost more husbands than one can count. And the engineer Boardman who on his death bed was given a supernatural power of extra sensory perception.
CHARACTERS
Cynthia Boardman
Willam Rawlings
Cincinnati Enquirer
Henry Ladd
Mr. Henderson
Mr. Johnson
Mr. Dixon
Mr. Maybury
Mr. Tipton
George Dyer
Edward Augustus Boardman
Engineer Moses
O.K. Cockrell
Dixey
Johann Hari
Dr. Priddy Meeks
Garrit Walter Gong
Catherine Fitzsimmons
Union Pacific Railroad
Colorado Central Roadmaster
Colorado Miner Newspaper
Conductor Inglings
Conductor Charley Campbell

LOCATIONS
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Denver Colorado
Laclede Building
St. Louis Missouri
Garrett, Indiana
Washington DC
Chicago
Hicksville
Saint Joe
Holgate
Defiance
F Tower
Tiffin
Republic
Chicago Junction
Attica
Buffalo New York
Victor, Colorado
Golden, Colorado
Georgetown loop railroad
Cheyenne

LINKS

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari
https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs

Memories Are Passed Through DNA From Your Grandparents, Say Scientists
https://www.buzzworthy.com/memories-dna-grandparents/
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FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : Unbelievable True Stories - Ep 11 ⛏Colorado Gold, 👩‍🍼Tragedy, & Gus🚂

Transcript

Hello there, my name is Edward Augustus Boardman, most people just call me Gus. I was born on the 20th of June, 1859 in Buffalo, New York. My father, Lewis Boardman, was born in France, and my Mother Mary Frances Riffier, well she was born in Wales.

I moved from New York State to Colorado in the latter part of the 1870’s, and found work with the Union Pacific Railroad. A short while after arriving in Colorado I met in Denver a beautiful young Irish woman by the name of Catherine Fit