Col. George Boardman Boomer was a Federal brigade commander who was killed in May 1863 while leading his men in an uphill assault against entrenched Confederate forces in Vicksburg during the American Civil War.

He was hailed as a heroic military leader and a memorial describing his actions stands in the Vicksburg National Military Park.

French immigrant Louis Dupuy opened the luxurious Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1875, during the region’s silver boom.

The hotel was famous for its authentic French cuisine and flourished, along with the local economy, until the financial panic of 1893.

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