Clara Brown is the name of a historic steamboat in the Puget Sound. In Colorado, however, Clara Brown was a human being who really was such a great “human being.”
As we observe Black History Month, here's the remarkable story of Wyoming's first prominent African-American businessman, Tilford Ashford.
Ashford was born in Missouri during the Civil War. In 1884, at the age of 22, he arrived in Cheyenne and opened a barber shop...