1900
Colorado Telephone Company started linking
Glenwood Springs to Aspen and installed wall
telephones within the city.
1901, February 16
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt visits Glenwood
Springs following a hunting trip. He enjoys the
vapor caves and attends a dinner party at the
Hotel Glenwood before departing on the Colorado
Midland Train for Colorado Springs.
1902
An improved road through Glenwood Canyon was
completed with funding secured by State Senator
Edward T. Taylor of Glenwood Springs.
1903
Local cowboy and horse trainer, Rich Thomson, was
awarded "The World's Champion Bronco
Buster".
1903, April
7
Prohibitionist, Carry Nation, visits Glenwood
Springs and delivers a speech on the evils of
alcohol and smoking.
1904
The red sandstone Denver and Rio Grande train
depot on 7th Street opened.
1905, Apr. 15
President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt began on
Divide Creek. The Hotel Colorado became the
"Little White House of the West".
1907 The
White River National Forest was formed.
1908 Dr. W.
F. Berry built the Glenwood Sanitarium at the
corner of 10th and Bennett.
1908
State Senator Edward T. Taylor was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives.
1909
The Shoshone hydroelectric plant was completed in
Glenwood Canyon.