<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who set up fort defiance and then later named it glenwood springs
who set up fort defiance and then later named it glenwood springs
Isaac Cooper
Isaac Cooper