Mile High City

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"Denver has always been known as the Mile High City."
--Denver Convention & Visitors Bureau web site (www.denver.org/maps/faq.asp)

     "Mile High City" is not in the OED, which is editing "M."
     From AMERICAN NICKNAMES, 2nd edition (1955) by George Earlie Shankle,
pg. 122:

_Denver, Colorado_
     Denver is known as the _City of the Plains_, _Convention City_, and
_Queen City of the Plains_.

     No "Mile High City"!
     THE AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG (1942) by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin
van den Bark, entry 46.1:

City of the Plains, Convention City, Mile High City, Queen City of the
Plains, _Denver, Colorado_

    I e-mailed the Colorado Historical Society, with no response.
    The leading Denver historian appears to be Thomas J. Noel.  I couldn't
find his e-mail address, but the web's white pages did turn up Thomas J.
Noel, 1245 Newport Street, Denver, CO 80220, (303) 355-0211.  I haven't
called him yet.
    The Making of America databases did NOT have "Mile High City," but you
can recheck me on this.
    American Memory had:

Copyright deposit; Mile High Photo Co.; November 18, 1907.

    OCLC WorldCat had:

     MOUNT LOWE: OVER A MILE HIGH: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AT A GLANCE (1904) by
the Pacific Electric Railway Company, Los Angeles, CA.
     FORT DAVIS: ONE MILE HIGH (1911) by the Fort Davis (TX) Commercial Club.

     THE 105th MERIDIAN IN DENVER AND ITS MILE HIGH LEVEL (1911) by Herbert
A. Howe, published by the Colorado Scientific Society, from its PROCEEDINGS,
vol. 10.
     MILE HIGH HYGIENE by Elwood Waite Elder in COLORADO SCHOOL JOURNAL, June
1913.
     MILE HIGH CLUB (serial of the Mile High Club, description based on 1918).
     DENVER, THE MILE HIGH CITY (1922? 1989) by the Denver Chamber of
Commerce.