4+ day, 1+ hour 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…...

5+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (30+ words) And the West is History: Main Avenue Bridge postcard " ca. 1909 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...

2+ week, 6+ 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...

11+ mon, 2+ day 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (26+ words) And the West is History: Cascade Flume construction " 1924 Choose from several print and digital subscription packages...

2+ mon, 1+ 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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (625+ words) LUXOR, Egypt " Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government's archaeological events that aim at drawing more tourists to the country. The giant…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (35+ words) They had started west from Las Animas in late summer 1875, led by teams of "tie men" who ascended the Arkansas River into the Rockies to harvest timber for wooden crossties, which were floated downriv. .....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (556+ words) In the years leading up to Colorado statehood, nearly all of the territory's western half still belonged to the Ute people, who had inhabited the northern Colorado Plateau for centuries. An 1868 treaty between the U. S. government and six bands of the…...