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- Are you battling beetles and bindweed? A CSU Master Gardener answers summer gardening questions
- Crypto-Jews will gather in Denver next week
- Combat Veterans Help Each Other Heal Moral Injury With A Journey To Israel
- The hidden history of Crypto-Jews in Colorado and the West
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- The Arab Spring, ancient pharaohs and 21st century garbage collectors are all part of #Colorado author Peter Hessler’s new book “The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution.”
- Mission: Wolf In Southern Colorado Helps Wolves And People Too
- Health Care In The Borderlands of Southern Colorado
- Medical Aid In Dying: A Colorado Doctor’s Perspective
- Telluride poet Kierstin Bridger gives voice to prostitutes of the Old West in her collection, Demimonde.
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- A 100 Years Ago Arthur Carhart Had a Vision For Both Wilderness and Recreation On Public Lands
- Million Dollar Restoration Planned For #Pueblo’s Historic Goodnight Barn
- Winter Gardening Tips From A Colorado Master Gardener
- Boulder Poet Andrea Gibson Writes Through Love And War In ‘Lord Of The Butterflies’
- New Study Explores Southwest Chief’s Economic Impact In Colorado
- How Did Colorado Supermarket Chain King Soopers Get It’s Name?
- Legal Pot Changes The Work Of Some Drug Detection Dogs
- In 1978 Activists Laid Down In Front Of Buses In Denver, Launching The Disability Rights Movement
- A New History Colorado Exhibit Spotlights Colorado’s Oldest Continuous Residents, the Utes
- On The 50th Anniversary Of Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire,” A Former Park Ranger Honors The Iconic Book And Confronts Outdated Views
- Denver Turns 160 This Week. So, How’d The Mile High City Get Its Name?
Category Archives: History
The hidden history of Crypto-Jews in Colorado and the West
There are Hispanic Catholics in the American West who have Jewish ancestry. Yet their families hid, and sometimes forgot, their Jewish roots. These are descendants of Jews who converted to Catholicism five hundred years ago to escape torture during the Spanish Inquisition. They … Continue reading
Health Care In The Borderlands of Southern Colorado
Visit southern Colorado and you’ll find a blend of cultures. That’s partly because the region belonged to Mexico up until 1848. When the border moved south people from many backgrounds intermingled, melding their traditions. A new exhibit at the Trinidad … Continue reading
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A 100 Years Ago Arthur Carhart Had a Vision For Both Wilderness and Recreation On Public Lands
A hundred years ago the US Forest Service considered putting cabins around a pristine lake in western Colorado. But thanks to a young landscape architect named Arthur Carhart, Trappers Lake stayed undeveloped and the concept of protected wilderness was born. … Continue reading
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Million Dollar Restoration Planned For #Pueblo’s Historic Goodnight Barn
An old stone barn near Pueblo is about to get a million dollar facelift. It’s the last surviving structure of the northern headquarters of the Goodnight Cattle Company. The very real lives of old west cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver … Continue reading
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How Did Colorado Supermarket Chain King Soopers Get It’s Name?
Did you know there was an actual King behind the King Soopers grocery store name?Lloyd King founded the Colorado based supermarket chain in 1947. But where did the rest of the name came from, including that goofy spelling? Journalist Matt … Continue reading
A New History Colorado Exhibit Spotlights Colorado’s Oldest Continuous Residents, the Utes
A traditional Ute bear dance ceremony. Courtesy of Robert Ortiz, The Southern Ute Drum The Utes are some of Colorado’s oldest residents — by some estimates, the tribe has been here for 13,000 years. Despite that, many Coloradans today may not … Continue reading
Denver Turns 160 This Week. So, How’d The Mile High City Get Its Name?
Before you ask: No, John Denver is not the city’s namesake. Denver does owe its name from another man with the initials J.D., though. James William Denver was a Civil War general, a territorial governor and the eponym for the Mile High City. … Continue reading
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Colorado Gears Up For Another Flu Season In The Shadow Of 1918 Influenza Pandemic
After a nasty flu season in 2017 and another one brewing this year, doctors are again calling for anyone 6 months or older to get vaccinated. The good news is, Colorado’s tangle with the flu in 2018 is unlikely be worse than it … Continue reading
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Colorado Forensic Anthropologist Helps Solve Murders and Missing Person Mysteries
A couple of years ago, hikers in Chaffee County spotted human bones in a rocky ravine. Investigators recovered the remains and combed the area for clues. Was it a homicide? They weren’t sure. So they sent the remains — and some … Continue reading
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Mike The Headless Chicken Lives On, And On, And On, At Festival In Fruita, Colorado
It’s a story even Barnum, Bailey and Ripley would be impressed by: A rooster living in 1945 in Fruita, Colorado loses his head to farmer Lloyd Olsen’s ax. But to the man’s surprise, the animal was still alive, and would … Continue reading
