Dec 23, 20241 min read
1904 Election was Colorado's worst
Colorado's 1904 gubernatorial election is considered the most corrupt in the state's history. Fraud, ballot stuffing and intimidation...
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Dec 11, 20241 min read
New Deal programs brought state jobs
Programs initiated during President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brought hundreds of jobs to Western Colorado, but did little to stem...
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Nov 27, 20241 min read
Sand Creek recognized as massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre in November, 1864, was almost immediately denounced by newspapers, politicians and some of the soldiers present,...
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Nov 14, 20241 min read
Electric war struck Telluride in 1890s
I set out to write about George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and the Ames Power Plant. But when I found old newspaper articles that...
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Nov 1, 20241 min read
Teller sought to ban Indian culture
One of Colorado's first senators, Henry Teller, also served as Secretary of the Interior in the early 1880s and is responsible for one of...
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Oct 14, 20241 min read
When hunting harvests were immense
In the 19th century and early 20th century, there were few laws and fewer game wardens to limit the number of game animals that...
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