Japanese-Americans in Colorado
The first Japanese-Americans arrived in Western Colorado long before December 7, 1941, and its aftermath. They were farmers, business...
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Jul 26, 20221 min read
Utes (and archaeologists) on the Uncompahgre
Had a great opportunity to talk with Curtis Martin about the work he's done at a site on the Uncompahgre Plateau where a small band of...
Mar 8, 20221 min read
A warning, a war, and a dangerous trek
Utah war of 1857 and captain R.B. Marcy of Western Colorado.
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Palisade High building has long history
Palisade High School demolished to make way for new medical clinic.
Dec 28, 20211 min read
Hanging Lake Trail tough to maintain
Efforts to maintain and improve Hanging Lake trail from the 1970s until now.
Dec 16, 20211 min read
Hanging Lake has long been a favorite
Hanging Lake, above the Glenwood Canyon has been attracting tourists since the early 20th century
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Electric streetcars edged out horses
This was my second post about the history of streetcars in Mesa County. The Interurban provided great commuter service between Grand...
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Murder in Unaweep Canyon
The 1885 murder of Samuel Jones is one of the earliest recorded in Mesa County. The fact that his partner was convicted of the murder,...
Sep 24, 20211 min read
Western Expansion in two directions
After a delay while I was traveling, I'm back with a post about my two most recent columns: The 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail...
Aug 24, 20211 min read
Modern technology and old irrigation
This column from The Daily Sentinel discusses how officials with the Mesa County Irrigation District and Palisade Irrigation District use...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
Grand Valley Water War, 1909
In this drought-stricken summer of 2021, with the possibility that rationing of irrigation water could occur, it's worth recalling that...
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Horning in on Eagle ranch history
The Horn Ranch, between Eagle and Wolcott, Colorado, played important roles in several eras of our region's history. And it offers some...
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Pressing onward
The Daily Sentinel’s Goss Headliner press frequently ran near its top speed — around 50,000 pages an hour.
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Palisade's new museum opens
After a remodeling effort that took the better part of 18 months, interrupted by COVID of course, the Palisade Historical Society opened...
May 31, 20211 min read
Dart's demise courtesy of Tom Horn
Here's the second column in my Isam Dart saga. This one is about his murder -- and that of his good friend Mat Rash -- at the hands of...
May 19, 20211 min read
Fake history hurt Dart's reputation
Isam Dart was a talented Black cowboy who lived in Brown's Park Colorado in the last decades of the 19th Century. But a book published 25...
May 3, 20211 min read
A Monumental Undertaking
Members of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...
Apr 19, 20211 min read
Grand Junction's Socialist Mayor
This column, published in The Daily Sentinel online on April 19, is a follow-up to my column of April 6, about Grand Junction's City...
Apr 6, 20211 min read
Chartering change in Grand Junction
In 1909, Grand Junction voters adopted a city charter that was among the most innovative in the country, including a new system of voting...
Jan 27, 20201 min read
Trains on the West Slope
Attached are a couple of history columns I’ve written recently about the Denver & Rio Grande Railway’s work in the 1880s to cross the...
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