Brief by Central Staff
Musical History – September 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
Sitting two miles above sea level next to the two highest mountains in Colorado, Leadville isn’t exactly a “Home on the Range.” But the “Junk Lane Hotel” in or near the Cloud City in 1885 is part of the song’s long history, and a Colorado musician is trying to find out just where that “hotel” — a miners’ cabin — stood.