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Show JIMMY'S CAMP. 317 This camp enjoyed its palmy days in 1833, when the Hudson. Bay Company established here a trading post to sell trinkets to, and buy furs from the Indians and trappers. It was named for Jimmy Boyer, who had charge of the wagons that came to this spot to trade. He built a log house, and advertised his arrival from the East with a signal fire, which drew the Indians from far and near to sell him their furs and buffalo robes. But on one occasion his flame was an evil beacon. It allured to his lonely cabin a party of guerrillas from Old Mexico, who murdered Jimmy and took possession of his goods without leaving a receipt. The Indians coming as usual to the camp, and finding him dead, pursued the murderers, captured them and hung them by their toes to the limbs of a tree. They returned and buried poor Jimmy, and over his grave placed a flat stone, on which they carved in a crude way a frightful picture, representing one man with his throat cut, and over him the assassins hanging by their toes. It is said that Col. Fremont, when seeking a pathway through this country in 1844, camped on the same spot. At this point in the story my informant suddenly darted away and commenced an earnest conversation with a man in the other end of the car, whom he presently introduced as Jim Baker, the famous scout and trapper, who had camped on the site of Denver long before Denver was thought of, and had been the companion of Kit Carson, Boggs, Bent and St. Vrain. In personal appearance he was a typical frontiersman, tall and straight as an arrow. Although nearly seventy |