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Oallaway, T. J., boarding, res Oheyenne Oanon
- 1 2 The Giles City Directory of Colorado Springs and Manitou (PDF) (almanac). The Giles Directory Company. May 1903. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
Callaway Thomas J prop Camp Stratton res same (Mrs Elizabeth) ... Camp Stratton Thos J Callaway prop, Cheyenne Canon ... Harding Anna El (wid W L) prop Camp Harding res W Cheyenne Road
- ↑ Colorado Springs, Colorado City and Manitou City Directory. The R. L. Polk Directory Co. 1916. p. 40.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ "Denver medical times". Utah Medical Journal. 28. Utah State Medical Society, Nevada State Medical Association: 193. 1908.
Dr. and Mrs. George F. Libby spent ten days in the latter part of August and the first week of September in Camp Harding at the mouth of Cheyenne canon.
- 1 2 3 Miller, Olive Thorne (1894), A Bird Lover in the West, The Riverside Press,
But where is Camp Harding ? " you ask. He points to an obscure path "trail" he calls it which seems to throw itself over an edge. You approach that point, and there, to your wonder and your surprise, at your feet nestles the loveliest of smiling canon-like valleys, filled with trees, aspen, oak, and pine, with here and there a tent or red roof gleaming through the green, and a noisy brook hurrying on its way downhill. By a steep scramble you reach the lower level, birds singing, flowers tempting on every side, and the picturesque, narrow trail leading you on, around the ledge of rock, over the rustic bridge, till you reach the back entrance of the camp. Before it, up the narrow valley, winds a road, the carriage-way to the Cheyenne canons. ... talk all about him of this or that canon, this or that pass, the Garden of the Gods, Manitou, the Seven Sisters' Falls
- ↑ Thorne, Olive. "Tent Life in Colorado". Archived from the original on November 20, 2013.
Imagine a pretty one-story cottage, set down in a grove of cottonwood trees with a gnarly oak and tall pine here and there to give it character
- ↑ 222. Camp Harding, Cheyenne Canon, Colorado (post card)
- ↑ "W. Gould Brokaw Now Accuses Wife" (PDF). New York Times. December 28, 1912.
William Gould Brokaw [on Long Island claimed misconduct by his wife] Mary Blair Brokaw...with an unidentified man at Camp Harding, Colorado Springs, in October, 1909.