Glenwood Springs was originally known as
"Defiance". Defiance was established in 1883, a camp of tents,
saloons, and brothels with an increasing amount of cabins and lodging
establishments. It was populated with the expected crowd of gamblers,
gunslingers, and prostitutes. Town Founder Isaac Cooper's wife Sarah was having
a hard time adjusting to the frontier life and in an attempt to make her
environment somewhat more comfortable persuaded the founders to change the name
to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, after her beloved hometown of Glenwood, Iowa.
