The Utes were almost certainly the first to enjoy the hot mineral baths at what is now Glenwood Springs, but they would not be the last. Railroad tycoon and silver magnate Walter Devereux purchased 10 acres around the springs in 1887 for $125,000, then sunk an additional $850,000 into the construction of his hotel, patterned after a 16th-century Italian villa. When the “Grande Dame of the Rockies” opened in 1893, she was very grand indeed: three million bricks were used for the hotel, whi
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