Defiance Colorado and Glenwood Springs
Defiance, Colorado 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. That is how Defiance became Glenwood Springs, Colorado in 1885.