Nov 11 min read
Teller sought to ban Indian culture
One of Colorado's first senators, Henry Teller, also served as Secretary of the Interior in the early 1880s and is responsible for one of...
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Oct 141 min read
When hunting harvests were immense
In the 19th century and early 20th century, there were few laws and fewer game wardens to limit the number of game animals that...
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Oct 11 min read
Spaniards descend on Utah Lake
The 1776 Spanish expedition led by Fathers Dominguez and Escalante didn't achieve its primary goal of finding a land route from New...
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Sep 171 min read
I'll drink to that
The repeal of prohibition in 1933 was as big a deal as its enactment 14 years earlier. Colorado and Utah both played critical roles in...
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Aug 201 min read
DIY frontier assistance
Guidebooks for travelers in the Old West have long intrigued me, and this column looks at two of the most prominent manuals published...
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Aug 71 min read
Colorado's massive mountain marker
Pikes Peak has long been one of the most notable and most visited mountains in Colorado, in the entire United States, in fact. This...
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Jul 221 min read
Society girls as frontier teachers
When Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood arrived in Hayden, Colorado, in the summer of 1916, to begin teaching at the Elkhead School,...
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