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Flora Jane Satt—annotated by Miles SaltielAppendix One—A note on sourcesThis appendix lists sources for the life of Saltiel the Cotopaxi colony and the period; provides a critical rehearsal of thelatter; tests the primary and principal compendium sources, offers an explanation of the legacy of bitterness, and makessome concluding remarks. An article based on this Appendix and Appendix Three is to be published by the RockyMountain Jewish Historical Notes (RMJHN) of the University of Denver, whose rights are hereby acknowledged. I amdelighted to have the opportunity to express my appreciation of the editorial support of the RMJHN, in particular thekindnesses of its editor, Dr Jeanne Abrams.A—List of sourcesWritten sources for the life of Saltiel include:Saltiel’s personal correspondence and court martial transcripts from the National Military Archive, Library of Congress,Washington DC.Justice at Fort Laramie, William E Unrau, Arizona and the West, 1973.Emanuel Saltiel—Incognito to Fort Laramie, Moshe Shaltiel, Shealtiel Gazette, Vol I,No IV, December 1995 and available at http://www.shealtiel.com/gazette/gazettevol1no4.pdfincl primary sources, that is census, directory and birth records in the US and England (the latter courtesy Dr A.P. Josephof Edgbaston, England).Written sources for the Cotopaxi colony include (in order of publication):Report of Mr Julius Schwarz on the colony of Russian refugees at Cotopaxi, Colorado, established by the Hebrew EmigrantAid Society of the United States, 15 State Street, New York City, 23 October 1882, with an ex libris label, “YaleUniversity Library, Discovery and Settlement of Western North America, Collection of William Robertson Coe”. The copyin my possession is sourced from the Library of Congress, where the original is held under call no. zc49 892sc; location:Beinecke (non-circulating).Letter to HEAS by George H Kohn and Louis Wirkowski, 30 Jan 1883; reply by H S Henry 15 February 1883; reprintedin Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes, Vol 1 No 3, June 1978 (cited as RMJHN).The Jewish Colony at Cotopaxi, Dorothy Roberts, Colorado Magazine, July 1941.The present article, The Cotopaxi Colony, unpublished M.A. thesis by Flora Jane Satt, University of Colorado, 1950. Referencesto Satt’s text are to this document; references to notes are as enumerated in links pointed to at http://cotopaxi.250x.com/index.htm.Interesting Historical Facts Concerning Cotopaxi Pioneers, Elizabeth Gulliford, “The Sun”, 26, August, 1954, availableat: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/co/fremont/history/cotopaxi.txt.Pioneers, peddlers, and Tsadikim: the story of the Jews in Colorado, Ida Libert Uchill, Boulder, Colo, 1957; [re]printed1979 by Quality Line Print Co; incl. an extract from a 1932 report by Dr Charles D Spivak & Dr J.M Morriss, cited at p176in original.Max Rosenthal’s article about Jewish agricultural colonies in the U.S. in JewishEncyclopaedia.com (note, as at October2005, this seems to have been truncated).The website created by A. Armstrong to satisfy the requirements for the final project of the Nationalism and Zionismcourse taught by Professor David Shneer at the University of Denver and available at:http://rader12.home.mindspring.com/index.htm. (This is undated; it has come up only recently on Google searches; onthe other hand A. Armstrong is no longer at UD; this dates it between c2000 and 2004.)Hard Times: The Jewish colony at Cotopaxi, Nancy Oswald, Colorado Central Magazine, No. 132, February 2005, Page26; and available at: http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc2005/01320261.html.I am happy to acknowledge my debt to Greta Heintzelman, the Reference/Cataloging Librarian of the American JewishHistorical Society of New York, who drew my attention to two other sources for HEAS and Jewish agricultural coloniesof the period, specifically:The Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society of the United States, 1881-1883, Gilbert Osofsky, Publications of the American JewishHistorical Society (1893-1961); Sept 1959-Jun 1960, 49, 1-4; AJHS Journal, p173.Annotated Documentary of Jewish Agricultural colonies as Reported in the Pages of the Russian Hebrew Press, “Ha-Melitz” and “Ha-Yom”, Joel S Geffen, American Jewish Historical Quarterly (1961-1978); Sept 1970-Jun 1971; 60, 1-4;AJHS Journal, p355.Other sources include conversations with Dr Jeanne Abrams of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at theCentre for Judaic Studies of the University of Denver; Tom Young of Cotopaxi, Colorado; Bill Jones of the SilvertonMine & Museum; and Ranson Baker of Rawlins, Wyoming, the historian of Carbon County, in which Rawlins lies.35