Jim Reynolds and His Gang
Jim Reynolds was a miner working at California Gulch, now Leadville. He got permission from the governor of Colorado to go down into Texas, his native state, and raise a regiment for the Union army. When he started for Texas, people believed that he was honest in his object, but on his return they soon learned that his undertaking was not to aid the government, but to take advantage of it during its struggles and help himself. He left Texas with twenty-two men, but only had eight men and nine first class horses with him on the Platte. The following […]