In just one short year, the Brown Palace had become one of the leading hotels in the frontier West. Its reputation was such that, in September 1893, a manager bragged about his previous employment in an ad for the new Oriental Hotel in Dallas, Texas, published in The Dallas Morning News: “W.J. Alden…formerly of the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver.” Guests have been spoiled at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado, since its opening on August 12, 1892. In the early years, the main dinin


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