The first Japanese-Americans arrived in Western Colorado long before December 7, 1941, and its aftermath. They were farmers, business...

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...

Utah war of 1857 and captain R.B. Marcy of Western Colorado.

Palisade High School demolished to make way for new medical clinic.

Efforts to maintain and improve Hanging Lake trail from the 1970s until now.

Hanging Lake, above the Glenwood Canyon has been attracting tourists since the early 20th century

This was my second post about the history of streetcars in Mesa County. The Interurban provided great commuter service between Grand...

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,...

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...

This column from The Daily Sentinel discusses how officials with the Mesa County Irrigation District and Palisade Irrigation District use...

In this drought-stricken summer of 2021, with the possibility that rationing of irrigation water could occur, it's worth recalling that...

The Horn Ranch, between Eagle and Wolcott, Colorado, played important roles in several eras of our region's history. And it offers some...

The Daily Sentinel’s Goss Headliner press frequently ran near its top speed — around 50,000 pages an hour.

After a remodeling effort that took the better part of 18 months, interrupted by COVID of course, the Palisade Historical Society opened...

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...

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...

Members of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...

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...

In 1909, Grand Junction voters adopted a city charter that was among the most innovative in the country, including a new system of voting...

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...