Ghost towns capture our imaginations — haunted or not — about Colorado’s past and the people who braved treacherous mountain terrain or harsh prairies to stake out a life.

In Colorado, there was a man, who became a town, which became a tourist attraction and movie star of sorts. And now: “Buckskin Joe” is in private hands. “Buckskin Joe” was one of the early prospectors ...

On Aug. 19, 1859, a group of gold seekers formed the mining town of Buckskin Joe. Named after the group’s leader, Joseph Higgenbottom’s choice of clothing material, the town was situated along ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Buckskin Joe the summer it opened in 1958. (Cañon City Daily Record) Dubbed the largest authentic Old West Theme Park in the nation, Buckskin Joe opened in ...

FREMONT COUNTY – We’re learning more about plans to develop a tourist attraction on the former “Buckskin Joe” site near the Royal Gorge. We told you back in October that the new owner planned to build ...

Buckskin Joe Frontier Town and Railway, a staple of Cañon City tourism for 53 years, will close Sept. 12. Few have as many great memories of the tourist attraction as Jim Jackson, founder of the ...

CANON CITY — The site that once housed the Old West movie set and tourist attraction Buckskin Joe will finally have a new use now that local business owners have purchased the 805-acre parcel west of ...

If you are familiar with the East Side, you probably are familiar with Ederville Road and Handley Ederville Road. George Eder was born in Pennsylvania in 1810. About 1871, Eder moved to Tarrant County ...

This 1958 photo shows a paving project on Ederville Road. Ederville was a settlement that sprang up in the late 1800s on what is now the east side of Fort Worth around George Eder’s mineral wells.