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November 4, 2024 1 min
Teaching Colorado about Colorado, one tiny town at a time.  Today, BONANZA! 
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Boom.

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Channel ninety three three L ninety three three is Colorado
Pedia spotlights Bonanza Bonanza.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Damn, that's fun to say, bumba bom bit to bum
bit boom Bonanza. Bonanza, Colorado, was founded when a drunk
Tom Cook of Salida stumbled upon a silver deposit in
eighteen eighty. Miners and drunks flocked to the area to
establish a new mining town. Within two years, the population
of Bonanza exploded to one thousand judgment impaired miners. At

(00:29):
least that's the guest at the time. Population was determined
by the number of bars in town, which was forty four.
From you athletes, yes, that's just under twenty three men,
women and child per bar. The population of Bonanza is
a whopping seventeen thou oh seventeen seventeen and no bars
on their phone or in their town, no wonder, everybody split.

(00:50):
When visiting Bonanza, make sure to hit up first Treat,
then second Street, and then you're done. Afterwards, you should
probably get out of town before you're noticed. Bonanza and
I Night enjoy a quiet life of bunk house constructing,
river washing, and coming up with fresh insults to hurl
at passers.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
By you'll see driving you Hubu Steaks.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
See well today, I hope you learned a little more
about the Skadooche of Southwatch County. Bonanza.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Thank you Colorado Pedio from Nerve Selling well at Final five,
brought to you my Leegal Peat search Llo Wells on
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