b'HISTORYCy WarmanOur city was named after Cy Warman to honour his association with railroads and his contributions to literature that celebrated the railway industry. Cy Warman (18551914) was an American- Warman began writing poems and stories Canadian journalist, author, and poet knownabout railroad life. In 1888, Warman became as the "Poet Laureate of the Rockies." Heeditor of the publication Western Railway. wrote extensively about the lives of railroadHe sold his interest in Western Railway workers and the development of railroads,in March 1892 and relocated to bustling which played a vital role in shaping WesternCreede, Colorado where he co-founded Canada. Born in Greenup, Illinois, he grewthe Creede Chronicle during the height of up on a homestead granted to his fatherthe regions silver boom. The town rapidly for service in the Mexican War. With limitedgrew from a handful of residents to 10,000, formal education, he began working at ageattracting miners, gamblers, businessmen, five as a water boy for a railroad constructionand infamous outlaws. Warmans newspaper crew. Later, he considered becoming aearned a reputation for honesty and truth, wheat buyer but lost almost everything in awith Warman advocating for law and order in market crash. After several failed ventures,a lawless frontier town. The City of Creede, Warman moved to Colorado in 1880, whereColorado, Warman\'s "sister city," continues he worked planting orchards and later in ato honour Cy Warman\'s legacy.smelter plant. I couldnt help writing poetry During Colorado\'s railroad boom, Warmanwith such scenery as that to run was drawn to railroading. He joined themy engine through.- Cy WarmanDenver & Rio Grande as a labourer, quickly earning a promotion to fireman. Within threeAfter riding from New York City to Chicago years, he became a locomotive engineer.in the cab of locomotive, he wrote a railroad Due to health reasons, Warman had tostory, A Thousand Miles in a Night for give up the railroad work physically, but hisMcClure\'s Magazine in 1892. This was the passion for it in mind and spirit endured.first of a series of widely popular True Tales Though his time as an engineer was brief,of the Railroad articles written for McClure\'s, his experiences during this period gave himgaining Warman national recognition. His a future livelihood recounting the noises,writings caught the attention of the New smells, humour and romance of railroading. York Sun, who began to publish his work, 124'