Editing Cañon City, Colorado (section)

==In popular culture==

The movie [[Canon City (film)|''Canon City'']] (1948) depicts the real-life 1947 escape of 12 prisoners from nearby [[Colorado State Penitentiary]].<ref name="IMDB">{{cite book|title=Canon City| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040210/| publisher=IMDb|date=June 30, 1948| access-date=February 6, 2016}}</ref>

A diner in Cañon City is the setting of the song "Navajo Rug", which was named by the [[Western Writers of America]] as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time.<ref name="Top100">{{Cite web|title=The Top 100 Western Songs |author=Western Writers of America |year=2010 |author-link=Western Writers of America |website=American Cowboy |url=http://www.americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019002745/http://americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archive-date=October 19, 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

A fictional version of the city is depicted in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s [[alternate history]] novel ''[[The Man in the High Castle]]'' (1963) and [[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|its eponymous 2015 television series adaptation]]. Cañon City is in an ostensibly-[[Demilitarized zone|demilitarized]] "neutral zone" between the [[puppet state|puppet regimes]] of the Japanese Pacific States, in the west, and Greater Nazi Reich, in the east, in the former United States.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news| last1=Enger| first1=Jeremy| title=Red, Reich and Blue: Building the World of 'The Man in the High Castle'| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/arts/television/the-man-in-the-high-castle-imagines-a-red-reich-and-blue.html?_r=0| work=The New York Times| date=November 19, 2015| access-date=February 23, 2016}}</ref>