Results for keyword: Colorado history
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A Colorado newspaperman fights for his valley's water
Bob Rawlings, publisher of the Pueblo Chieftain, has battled for decades to bring water to southeastern Colorado and, once it's there, to keep it no matter what.
by Matt Jenkins, Mar 26, 2012 -
Can an old mine become a work of art?
The old Ute-Ule mine site outside Lake City, Colo., is under scrutiny by the Hardrock Revision Team, which wants to clean up the mine and yet preserve it as a living and historic work of art.
by Laura Pritchett, Dec 01, 2011 -
Growing up political
Charles Conklin had an unlikely political career, successfully running as a Democrat in a Republican part of Colorado -- for a time.
by Marty Durlin, Nov 25, 2010 -
A scrappy community weekly hangs in there
The Silverton Standard & the Miner has held onto life in its tiny Colorado mountain town since 1875, and now it’s become a "public paper."
by Mark Esper, Apr 20, 2010 -
The paradoxical call of the wild
Wolves may be returning to Colorado on their own 70 years after their deliberate extirpation from the state.
by Jonathan Thompson , Feb 09, 2010 -
My father's political career
A writer remembers her father's unlikely political career, running as a Democrat in a Republican part of Colorado.
by Marty Durlin, Oct 27, 2009 -
Winter camping can be hazardous to your health
One hundred and thirty-five years ago, Alferd E. Packer survived winter starvation in the Colorado mountains with the help of his friends -- or at least of the meat on their bones.
by Andrew Gulliford, Feb 27, 2009 -
The West remains a mysterious region
Ed Quillen says that even in this so-called “Year of the West,” presidential candidates and media pundits demonstrate a deplorable ignorance of the region’s history and culture.
by Ed Quillen, Jan 10, 2008 -
A poet’s novel of the San Luis Valley
In Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, poet Aaron Abeyta explores the lives of the people who lived and loved in the long-lost town of Santa Rita in Colorado’s remote San Luis Valley
by Annie Dawid, May 28, 2007 -
Tales of Colorado's high-elevation tailings
In Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town, Gillian Klucas describes the history and the current environmental and economic struggles of the old mining town of Leadville, Colo.
by Jessica Clement, Jul 25, 2005
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