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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Former K-9 Kills 3-Year-Old Daughter of Police Chief in Deadly Attack
Burlington, Colo., Police Chief Nathan Hill was housing the German Shepherd at his residence in Kit Carson after the K-9 program in another county was terminatedNEED TO KNOW A 3-year-old Colorado girl was killed after the K-9 living at her house attacked her, say authorities Her father, Burlington Police Chief Nathan Hill, was housing the dog after the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Department donated it after their K-9 program ended The German Shepherd was euthanized after the attackThe 3-year-old daughter of a Colorado police chief was killed in an attack by a former K-9 her family was caring for, according to authorities. On Monday, Aug. 11, deputies responded to a 911 call in Kit Carson about a child who had been attacked by a dog, according to a press release from the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Travis Belden and Deputy Darrin Newberry arrived on scene a minute later and found an unresponsive 3-year-old and her mother in the back of the residence, according to the release. By then, the dog, a German Shepherd, had been secured in a kennel. EMS rushed the child to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. The dog was taken to the Burlington Dog Pound, where it was later to the Kit Carson Sheriff's Office, the dog was used as a narcotics detection dog with the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office. The dog was recently taken out of service when the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office ended its K-9 program. 'The dog was not trained in any kind of bite work to include protection or apprehension,' the release says. Cheyenne County donated the dog to the Burlington Police Department, but the dog was not actively in service, according to the release. Burlington Police Chief Nathan Hill was housing the dog at his residence at this time, it says. 'This is a very tragic situation, affecting the community as a whole,' the department said in the release. Authorities are continuing to investigate. Read the original article on People
Axios
24-02-2025
- General
- Axios
Meet James Beckwourth, the Black mountain man long ignored by history
The first Black person known to set foot in Utah was a mountain man whose gift for telling stories almost erased his own. This is Old News, our weekly rendezvous around Utah's past. Why it matters: James Beckwourth poses a cutting case study of whose memories get believed — an important question to explore as Black History Month draws to a close. The big picture: Beckwourth was one of a handful of Black explorers and trappers who roamed the Mountain West in the early and mid-1800s, sharing campfires with the likes of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. It was around those campfires that his reputation as a great storyteller — and as the " champion of all Western liars" — was born. Yes, but: Only a fraction of Beckwourth's stories needed to be true for him to be an awe-striking historical figure. Born into slavery around 1800 in Virginia, Beckwourth later joined the early corporate fur trapping expeditions in the Rocky Mountains. He was part of the famous first rendezvous at the Green River in 1825 before making his way to the Great Salt Lake. He traded horses with the renowned Ute Chief Walkara, and lived for years with the Crow people in Montana and Wyoming. Journalist T.D. Bonner, who ghost-wrote Beckwourth's autobiography, said his understanding of the West's Indigenous people had "never been surpassed" by another outsider. He identified the Sierra Nevada's lowest pass, facilitating the migration of thousands of settlers into California's Central Valley. He became a professional card player, ran the best saloon in Santa Fe and founded the trading post that became Pueblo, Colorado. The other side: His autobiography is full of wild stories that are directly contradicted by other accounts and evidence. The book was panned by contemporary critics and later historians, who roundly derided the stories of Black mountain men as mendacity at worst and minstrelesque at best — "comic relief in the histories of other men," as historian Elinor Wilson wrote. Between the lines: By contrast, white mountain men's tall tales were indulged as earned mythology. "Historians have enshrined White 'mountain men' like Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick and William Sublette in American folklore, but not so with Beckwourth," wrote Emerson College professor Roger House. "Because of racism, writers disparaged his feats and ridiculed his name." The bottom line: Beckwourth's less-reliable tales likely were an extension of the oral tradition in which he spent decades immersed on the frontier. "To be a gifted liar was as much a part of mountain honor as hard drinking or straight shooting," wrote historian Dale Morgan. "Embroider your adventures, convert to your uses any handy odyssey, and spin it all out in the fire light, the only sin the sin of being dull." Previously in Old News Amid Trump tariffs, the econ lesson Ferris Bueller missed When Alta was seen as "the jaws of death" The Fort Utah Massacre: Murder, execution and decapitation The most popular baby in SLC A vigilante killing in Hell's Hollow
