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Text Box: Legends, Labors & Loves of William Jackson Palmer Published by the Pikes Peal Library District Paperback, $24.95 “Who was William Jackson Palmer, besides being the founder of Colorado Springs? More complex questions come about when reconciling Palmer as a Union army soldier and spy with his Quaker upbringing; reconciling the massive manpower required to build Palmer’s western railroad and mining empires with his reputation as man of benevolence; his intercontinental romance with his wife Mary Lincoln Mellen “Queen” Palmer. This book, contains the keys to the many doors in Palmer’s own castle-his personal life. However, there still are rooms, private and concealed, which no one can ever enter. This “unauthorized biography” of a truly remarkable and modest man will open every reader’s eyes to a new view of William Jackson Palmer. In these pages you will not only find integrity, leadership, and compassion, but you will also witness Palmer’s tenacious conviction, strength, and shrewdness- just how one imagines a true “founding father.”