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Newsboys pose for a photograph in downtown Denver around 1900.

Denver @ 150: History sifts fact from fable

"History would be a wonderful thing," Leo Tolstoy once observed, "if it were true." Still, the untidy collision of fable and fact — punctuated by violence and greed, folly, vision and heroism — that comprises the 150-year history of Denver is splendid to behold. Even in miniature. Above, newsboys pose for a photograph in downtown Denver around 1900.

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