 The name of the site was changed to "Denver City" after Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver, in an attempt to ensure that the city would become the county seat of then Arapaho County, Kansas.Ironically, when Larimer named the city after Denver to curry favor with him, Denver had already resigned as governor and no longer had say in naming the capitol.In Denver, in the winter of 1858–1859, Katrina Wolf Murat, assisted by Wapolah, a Sioux, sewed together the first flag of the United States in Colorado.