An 1876 Colorado 'railroad war' climaxed with the kidnapping of a federal judge

An 1876 Colorado 'railroad war' climaxed with the kidnapping of a federal judge

A Colorado Central Railroad train in Clear Creek Canyon is pictured in this late 19th-century photograph by Joseph Collier. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library Special Collections, C-78)On the morning of Aug. 15, 1876, Judge Amherst Stone left Golden on a northbound Colorado Central Railroad train to Boulder, where he was expected to formalize a ruling that would put the financially troubled railroad into receivership. ← Aug. 6–12 Aug. 13–19 …