buffalo bill cody set up fort defiance and then later named it glenwood springs.
who set up fort defiance and then later named it glenwood springs?
buffalo bill cody
glenwood springs was originally known as "defiance", a name sometimes still used by local teams or businesses. defiance was established in 1883, a camp of tents, saloons, and brothels with an increasing amount of cabins and lodging establishments. it was populated with the expected crowd of gamblers, gunslingers, and prostitutes. town founder isaac cooper's wife sarah was having a hard time adjusting to the frontier life and, in an attempt to make her environment somewhat more comfortable, persuaded the founders to change the name to glenwood springs, colorado, after her beloved hometown of glenwood, iowa.
glenwood springs, colorado
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fort defiance may refer to:





























bullet::::- canada





























bullet::::- fort defiance (british columbia), winter quarters for american captain robert gray





























bullet::::- united states





























bullet::::- fort defiance, arizona, an unincorporated community





























bullet::::- fort defiance (california), formerly roop's fort, located in susanville





























bullet::::- fort morris, georgia, known as fort defiance during the war of 1812





























bullet::::- fort defiance (illinois), a civil war post commanded by general ulysses s. grant, site of fort defiance park





























bullet::::- fort defiance state park near estherville, iowa





























bullet::::- fort defiance (maryland), a war of 1812 fort on the elk river
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