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...most American morning of my life, ate some fresh pie (besides the Best Brews program, Four Points has a pie program), watched some exhibition baseball and got right to drinking beer. Kerkmans led me around Denver, where, just blocks from Coors Field, we went to Wynkoop Brewing Co., a microbrewery co-founded by the city's mayor, John Hickenlooper. It's a big, sprawling restaurant with a comedy theater in the basement, and brewer Thomas Larsen makes a beer subtly flavored with chili spices and a stout with oatmeal and other nonbarley grains. He generally uses British hops, which...
When John Hickenlooper ran for mayor of Denver in 2003, the betting in local political circles was that he should keep his day job, brewing beer. A Democratic civic activist, Hickenlooper was best known for owning the Wynkoop Brewing Co., the city's first brewpub, which he had opened in 1988 and built into a successful restaurant business. He had never run for office, not even for student council of his high school or college, Wesleyan, at which he earned degrees in English and geology. He also seemed a bit eccentric. As a bachelor, he offered a $5,000 bounty...
...story is based on actual fact and told by a real historical figure, Major Edward Wynkoop, a cavalryman who in 1864 negotiated peace with the Cheyennes. A militia troop headed by a bloodthirsty colonel marched into Wynkoop's area. They came upon an unsuspecting, unarmed and officially surrendered Cheyenne village at Sand Creek, Colo. In a hideous five-hour orgy, they massacred nearly everybody. Feeling that he must make amends for his unintentional betrayal. Wynkoop resigned his commission and became an Indian agent. But the Indians. of course, were doomed to further betrayal by other white...
...Wynkoop, U. S. business man, later declared: "Thank God we got away alive. . . . The only mercy shown was to foreigners. ... I doubt if anybody will ever know the number of dead and wounded. . . . The bandits had with them an expert engineer, who ran the train to Yurecuare. . . . There they wrecked the station, looted the town, burned and wrecked every coach on the train, and heartlessly stood by while wounded passengers in the third-class carriages were actually cremated alive...
...PENCILED FROWN?James Gray?Scribner's ($2.00)?It was penciled on the self-conscious countenance of Timothy Wynkoop, hardly weaned from college and already dramatic critic of The Indian City (Ia.) Leader. It was meant to convey the wearer's enormous intelligence, his artistic nature, his critical acumen. It often appeared when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best...