Following a tribal dancing and drum performance, Steve Turner canvassed the History Colorado Center on Dec. 8 conversing with all members of three Ute tribes, about 300 of whom revealed to welcome “Written on the Land: Ute Voices, Ute History. ” “The display program is really coming into life,” stated Turner, executive director of History Colorado. […]
With deserted mines, dusty streets and ramshackle buildings, Colorado’s ghost towns have a knack for providing people goosebumps. Colorado has roughly 300 ghost towns throughout the country, largely concentrated deep within the hills, in which miners — who had dreams of striking it rich — put up obligations, and across the Eastern Plains, explained Tom […]
PAGOSA SPRINGS — A blinding bolt of light zigzagged from a leaden sky. A cracking boom thundered three seconds later. “We need to get everyone off the mountain immediately,” our guide shouted. My wife and I dived into our parked car and began descending the twisty, 3-mile gravel roadway. A Noah-worthy deluge greeted us as […]
