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A Lynching in Limon

2022/1/18
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Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains

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Content Warning: Racial Violence

People don't often think of Colorado when they hear the word "lynching." But in 1900, one of the most horrifying racial terror lynchings in US history took place in the small town of Limon on the Eastern Plains. Hundreds of spectators looked on as fifteen-year-old Preston Porter, Jr., was burned alive. More than a century later, a group of people from across the state of Colorado came together to make sure that he was remembered—and that his story was told.