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...Rocky Mountain States had something to talk about in the death of the amazing Bonfils, the "Desperate Desmond" of Western journalism, the swaggering, handsome gambler who blew into town after the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with the Hotel Windsor's amiable bartender, Harry H. Tammen; who rode to power astride the Denver Post which he imbued with his own traits of boldness, flamboyance, unscrupulousness...
...hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when he bumped into the late Bartender Tammen and was persuaded that Denver was ripe for a killing...
...because of any journalistic ambition, but because they sought an instrument for power, Bonfils & Tammen bought the doddering Post for $12,500, imported Hearstlings, doctors of yellow journalism, to rake the town for scandal, dish it up in dripping, juicy gobs. As it had for Hearst, the formula worked richly for Gambler Bonfils & Bartender Tammen...
...Harry Tammen had tongue in cheek when he chose the inscription for the Post's building: "O, Justice! When Expelled From All Other Habitations, Make This Thy Dwelling Place." Fred Bonfils thus expressed the aim of his Foundation: "Better homes . . . better schools . . . greater morality and more widespread regard for the love of God and the Gospel of Christ...
...friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter and a little...