Jan 251 minPalisade High building has long historyPalisade High School demolished to make way for new medical clinic.
Dec 28, 20211 minHanging Lake Trail tough to maintainEfforts to maintain and improve Hanging Lake trail from the 1970s until now.
Dec 16, 20211 minHanging Lake has long been a favoriteHanging Lake, above the Glenwood Canyon has been attracting tourists since the early 20th century
Nov 29, 20211 minElectric streetcars edged out horsesThis was my second post about the history of streetcars in Mesa County. The Interurban provided great commuter service between Grand...
Oct 11, 20211 minMurder in Unaweep CanyonThe 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 minWestern Expansion in two directionsAfter 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 minModern technology and old irrigationThis column from The Daily Sentinel discusses how officials with the Mesa County Irrigation District and Palisade Irrigation District use...
Aug 9, 20211 minGrand Valley Water War, 1909In this drought-stricken summer of 2021, with the possibility that rationing of irrigation water could occur, it's worth recalling that...
Jul 28, 20211 minHorning in on Eagle ranch historyThe 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 minPressing onwardThe Daily Sentinel’s Goss Headliner press frequently ran near its top speed — around 50,000 pages an hour.
Jun 14, 20211 minPalisade's new museum opensAfter a remodeling effort that took the better part of 18 months, interrupted by COVID of course, the Palisade Historical Society opened...
May 31, 20211 minDart's demise courtesy of Tom HornHere'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 minFake history hurt Dart's reputationIsam 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 minA Monumental UndertakingMembers of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...
Apr 19, 20211 minGrand Junction's Socialist MayorThis 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 minChartering change in Grand JunctionIn 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 minTrains on the West SlopeAttached are a couple of history columns I’ve written recently about the Denver & Rio Grande Railway’s work in the 1880s to cross the...