Kokopelli, the hunch-backed flute player seen in rock art throughout the Four Corners region, is also present in a great deal of 21st...

Grand Junction's great downtown theater, the Avalon, might have been called something else as a result of a naming contest in 1922. But...

The Hole in the Rock expedition of 1879 and 1880 has long fascinated me, especially since the LDS pioneers could have chosen an easier...

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

Antoine Leroux was a friend of Kit Carson and other famous mountain men and guides. He may have even surpassed them when it came to...

The war that almost was between the Mormons in Utah and the United States.

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

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

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...

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

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...