Vincent's book leads to an unusual memorial
Published on 3/1/2024
Thanks to the CAL award he received last year, Matt Vincent recently was invited to speak to the Windsor Garden Book Club, blocks from the historic Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. He focused his talk on the chapter, "Love and Lust in Wild Places," a short story about Cort Thomson and Mattie Silks, buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery, from his first book, Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains. One of the members of the group, who is also a member of the Fairmount Heritage Foundation, asked Matt why Cort's grave had never been marked. Matt approached the president of the Fairmount board of directors and an initiative to recognize one of Colorado's early outlaws began. Later this year, 124 years after Cort’s burial, his grave will receive recognition and a headstone. On his headstone will appear the following epitaph, “Rambler, Gambler & Cattle Rustler.”