Letter from Meezie And Dick Stacy
Local lore – March 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Quillen,
Last week I received your subscription-renewal postcard for Colorado Central, which I immediately returned, along with my check for $20. On that card there was a blurb about a bighorn sheep that was shot near Spikebuck in 1807. This reminded me of a humorous story that my wife, Mary Louise (Meezie) once told me about Spikebuck, as we passed the railroad junction box so labeled while driving along the Arkansas River on our way to Cañon City. I thought that the story might interest you, so I asked her to write it up for me and here it is: