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11 Facts About Cy Warman

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Cyrus Warman was an American journalist and author known during his life by the appellation "The Poet Laureate of the Rockies".

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Cy Warman was born on a homestead to John and Nancy Askew Warman of Greenup, Illinois.

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Cy Warman was educated at the common schools there and later became a farmer.

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Cy Warman married Ida Blanch Hays of St Jacob, Illinois in 1879.

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In 1880, after failing as a wheat broker in Pocahontas, Illinois, Mr Cy Warman migrated to Denver, Colorado where the Colorado Silver Mining Boom was in progress.

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In 1888, Mr Cy Warman became editor of the publication Western Railway.

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Cy Warman sold his interest in Western Railway in March 1892 and relocated to Creede, Colorado at the height of the Creede mining boom.

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Cy Warman achieved national recognition in 1892 when, after riding from New York City to Chicago in the cab of the locomotive The Exposition Flyer, he wrote his first railroad story, "A Thousand Miles in a Night" for McClure's Magazine.

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Cy Warman's writing attracted the attention of the editors of the New York Sun.

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For two years after his early successes, Cy Warman traveled in Europe and the Far East as well as Alaska.

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Cy Warman died several months later at the St Luke's Hospital in Chicago after having been acutely ill for several weeks.