Adolphe Gérard
Adolphe Gérard (1844–1900) was a French chef, restaurant and hotel owner in Colorado, US. Gérard was born in Alençon, France, in 1844. At age 15, he enrolled in a seminary in the commune of Sées. At age 20, Gérard moved to Paris, where he was apprenticed as a chef in a hotel. He then moved to London, where he worked with a newspaper on its reviews and translations (Gérard was fluent in English, German and Latin). At age 22, Gérard moved to New York City, where he again worked for a newspaper. In 1868, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Hamilton, New York, and was assigned to Fort D. A. Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming. In April 1869, he deserted and moved to Denver, Colorado, assuming the name "Louis Dupuy". He started working for the Rocky Mountain News as a roving reporter for the mining camps. Gérard soon decided to become a miner himself. In 1873, while working in the Cold Stream Mine on Mount Sherman in Silver Plume, Colorado, he was badly injured in a delayed dynamite explosion in the Kennedy Tunnel. Gérard took the brunt of the blast and saved the life of a fellow miner. Gérard