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, 2022
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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, 2022
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A warning, a war, and a dangerous trek
Utah war of 1857 and captain R.B. Marcy of Western Colorado.
- Jan 25, 2022
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Palisade High building has long history
Palisade High School demolished to make way for new medical clinic.
- Dec 28, 2021
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Hanging Lake Trail tough to maintain
Efforts to maintain and improve Hanging Lake trail from the 1970s until now.
- Dec 16, 2021
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Hanging Lake has long been a favorite
Hanging Lake, above the Glenwood Canyon has been attracting tourists since the early 20th century
- Nov 29, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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Pressing onward
The Daily Sentinel’s Goss Headliner press frequently ran near its top speed — around 50,000 pages an hour.
- Jun 14, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2020
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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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