Night at The Museum with Author of Rocky Ford: Taming the Western Prairie

Description: Join the People of Southeast Colorado for a FREE Night at the Rocky Ford Museum Presentation on October 10, 2024...


Published: 09/25/2024
Byline: SECO News

Night at The Museum with Author of Rocky Ford: Taming the Western Prairie

The Rocky Ford Museum guest speaker for October.  Her name is Bonnie J. Swink Muhr.  She is the great great granddaughter of George W. Swink (the man who built Rocky Ford).  She authored a book called, Rocky Ford: The Taming of the Western Prairie.  
 
She is using the museum as her springboard to kick off the promotion of her book.  She will answer questions, sell and sign books and talk about her family legacy. 
 
WHO:  Bonnie (BJ) Swink, author Rocky Ford: Taming The Western                    Prairie.
 
WHAT:  Discussion about the Swink Family.  Book sells and signing.
 
WHERE:  Rocky Ford Museum, 1005 Sycamore Ave. Rocky Ford.
 
WHEN:  Thursday October 10th at 6:00pm.
 
FEE:   Free to all.
 
The museum has an elevator for those who wish to use it.  When you park your car at the museum, call the phone number on the blue handicapped sign to let us know you want to use the elevator.
 
We will assist you in operating the elevator.

"Mary, you have got to talk George out of this madness." her sister pleaded. "You can't move to Colorado territory. It's hostile country. With Indian attacks, bandits, gunfights, lawlessness, and the dry desert prairie with no trees. A cowboy could live there but not a woman with eight children. How will you grow food? You'd be giving up so much. I don't want you to starve or get killed."

A dream propelled George to build a new life in the West in the 1870s. Family members called it madness. His dream of creating a settlement where honest hardworking people could thrive led him there. Was this dangerous rugged prairie of Colorado the answer?

The Rocky Ford is an historical fiction novel. The true story is based on real events in the life of George Washington Swink, his family, and the citizens of Rocky Ford, Colorado during the 1870s. Great care has been taken to utilize available sources in writing about this time and place in history. Dialogue, narration, and fictionalized scenes have been added to help the historical characters come alive through many trials and hardships, these intrepid pioneers settled the desolate southeastern Colorado Prairie.

BJ Swink is the great-great granddaughter of George W. Swink.

Rocky Ford: Taming the Western Prairie

An historical fiction novel by BJ Swink Available October 2024 from Amazon.

The Rocky Ford Museum is Located at 1005 Sycamore Ave. 



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