1848? MACE'S HOLE, COLO -J. Mace Outlaw
MACE'S HOLE,COLORADO
1848 J. MACE - outlaw
BEULAH, Colorado
Snug on the valley floor, in the foothills below the picturesque Wet Mountains, Beulah is one of Colorado's hidden treasures. Local legend claims that this secluded valley became the favored hideout of a horse thief, Juan Mace, and was dubbed Mace's Hole. In 1876, America's Centennial, the town adopted a new name: Beulah. Located 25 miles southwest of Pueblo, Beulah is surrounded by San Isabel National Forest at an elevation of 6,500 feet.
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unincorporated community lying in the foothills of the Wet Mountains, 25 miles southwest of Pueblo, Colorado.
Local tradition holds that the secluded valley was once a hideout for a horse thief-outlaw, Juan Mace, and was initially called Mace's Hole.
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The Wet Mountains were well-known to the Ute, Jicarilla Apache, Comanche and Arapaho peoples, and to such famous trappers and fur traders as Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wooten, Maurice LeDuc, the Bent brothers, and Jacob Fowler.
In 1848, Major John C. Fremont, the "Pathfinder," provisioned at the Hardscrabble settlement on the northeastern slope of the Wet Mountains near present-day Wetmore and mapped the range on his infamous fourth expedition.
Because of their proximity to the Santa Fe Trail, the Trappers' Trail, and other early communication and transportation routes, the Wet Mountains' private valleys provided hideouts for whisky-traders, bandits like JUAN MACE, and to an entire Confederate regiment during the Civil War
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