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Doc Holliday
The most famous resident of the 19th century was the noted gunfighter Doc Holliday. He arrived in the spring of 1887, seeking to use the local hot mineral springs to relieve his tuberculosis. He resided in the Hotel Glenwood, which was once located at the corner of Eighth Street and Grand Avenue. He dealt poker and faro in the saloons along Riverfront Street, but grew weaker with time. |
Doc Holliday Continued...
Doc Holliday died only a few months after he arrived and was buried somewhere in city limits. Although there is a tombstone for him in a local cemetery, no one knows the exact location of his remains. Visit the tombstone just seven blocks south of The Hotel Denver. |
 Diamond Jack
In the 1920's and early thirties, there was a Chicago ganster known as Diamond Jack who spent considerable time in Glenwood Springs. Like the silver kings before them, these gangster types found Glenwood an attractive playground (with a steady supply of bootleg liquor!). Diamond Jack was quite a rabble-rouser in Glenwood. Once Jack got into an argument with a fellow who was a guest in a first floor room at The Hotel Denver. They argued in the lobby, and Jack had been drinking. Jack followed the guest, who ran into his room and closed the door. Diamond Jack shot him through the closed door and fatally wounded him. On another occasion, Diamond Jack got unruly and came out of the Hotel Denver with his guns flaring. He grazed the temple of a porter, who happened to be in the way. The porter was not injured.
The young lads of Glenwood were quite impressed by Jack because he had a fancy automobile with a rumble seat, and he had two two chrome plated istols with pearl handles. The car was frequently parked in front of The Hotel Denver, and local youths spent hours admiring that automobile. Jack liked kids and would take them for rides in the rumble seat, until their mothers found out! Jack was forced out of Colorado by his sentence in a trial for attempted murder. He was given the choice between five years of prison or leaving the state. When he chose to leave, it spelled a death, for he was soon killed by ganster opponents. |
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