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    Palisade High building has long history
    • Jan 25
    • 1 min

    Palisade High building has long history

    Palisade High School demolished to make way for new medical clinic.
    Hanging Lake Trail tough to maintain
    • Dec 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Hanging Lake Trail tough to maintain

    Efforts to maintain and improve Hanging Lake trail from the 1970s until now.
    Hanging Lake has long been a favorite
    • Dec 16, 2021
    • 1 min

    Hanging Lake has long been a favorite

    Hanging Lake, above the Glenwood Canyon has been attracting tourists since the early 20th century
    Electric streetcars edged out horses
    • Nov 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Murder in Unaweep Canyon
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    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,...
    Western Expansion in two directions
    • Sep 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Modern technology and old irrigation
    • Aug 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Grand Valley Water War, 1909
    • Aug 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Horning in on Eagle ranch history
    • Jul 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Pressing onward
    • Jul 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Pressing onward

    The Daily Sentinel’s Goss Headliner press frequently ran near its top speed — around 50,000 pages an hour.
    Palisade's new museum opens
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Dart's demise courtesy of Tom Horn
    • May 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Fake history hurt Dart's reputation
    • May 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    A Monumental Undertaking
    • May 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Monumental Undertaking

    Members of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...
    Grand Junction's Socialist Mayor
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Chartering change in Grand Junction
    • Apr 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    Trains on the West Slope
    • Jan 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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