Burnham, Colorado “Dad”
August 21, 2026
Parker Burnham, known in El Paso as “Dad” or “Colorado” Burnham, became one of the city’s best-known frontier figures after arriving on horseback from Denver on April 19, 1859, with Marshall Graves and a companion called Mack. Born in Syracuse, New York, in 1837 and raised in Princeton, Illinois…
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