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A company of Buffalo Soldiers was stationed at Colorado's "desolate' Fort Garland in 1876
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (490+ words) As fortune-seekers continued to flock toward the gold and silver mining camps of San Juan Mountains, word reached the Colorado Territory that its non-voting congressional representative was petitioning to shift one of its U. S. Army outposts to the West. "Hon. (Thomas)…...
And the West is History: Durango Depot Roundhouse " 1952
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (29+ words) The Durango Herald And the West is History: Durango Depot Roundhouse " 1952 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...
A Rocky Mountain diorama represented Colorado at the 1876 Centennial Expo
1+ week, 5+ day ago (624+ words) The eyes of the nation in spring 1876 turned to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia " formally the Centennial International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, which was opened in a ceremony on the morning of May…...
1876 marked the start of Colorado's decades-long "free silver' crusade
2+ week, 5+ day ago (573+ words) The special cargo arrived on the evening of May 3, 1876, on a westbound express train to Denver, where it was watched carefully and wheeled in through the side door at the Colorado National Bank. The barrel looked "quite as unpretentious and…...
What is the history of Raton Pass?
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (777+ words) Driving up Raton Pass, headed south toward the New Mexico border, it looks like images of the iconic southwest. The rolling hills and rising buttes are covered in tall yellowing prairie grass and adorned with bunches of pine and juniper…...
And the West is History: Main Avenue Bridge postcard " ca. 1909
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (30+ words) And the West is History: Main Avenue Bridge postcard " ca. 1909 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...
And the West is History: Fulton Market Durango " ca. 1900
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (30+ words) The Durango Herald And the West is History: Fulton Market Durango " ca. 1900 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and a Road Less Traveled
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (392+ words) Driving north of Taos and Tres Piedras, New Mexico, and headed toward the Colorado line, I'd seen the sign for Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, but I'd never turned off. Now in July loaded with food, water, camping gear…...
And the West is History: Cascade Flume construction " 1924
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (26+ words) And the West is History: Cascade Flume construction " 1924 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...
A prehistoric skeleton found deep in a flooded Mexican cave was likely placed there in a ritual
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) But "with the distance (from the cave entrance) and the depth " it could not have gotten there at any other time than when the cave was dry, at least 8, 000 years ago," he said. Even now, only expert divers with specialized…...