Essay by Martha Quillen
History – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Immerse yourself in history, and you notice a few things. The murder rate in Colorado mining camps was horrendous, far worse than any Detroit or Washington D.C. can match today.
Month: May 1994
Look beyond hypsometry when you look for peaks to bag
Article by Allen Best
Mountains – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
My quarrel with peak-bagging, particularly of the 14er variety, is that it is so undiscriminating, and at this point, so clichéd. I don’t like sounding haughty about this, but the fact remains that Mt. Princeton is much easier than Ice Mountain, yet Princeton gets assaulted daily and Ice doesn’t, just because Princeton is over 14,000 feet.
A Governor from Rural Colorado?
Article by Ed Quillen
Politics – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Can a 44-year-old guy from Gunnison move into the governor’s mansion next January?
Shall We Gather at the (Gunnison) Ditches?
Article by Kym O’Connell-Todd and Mark Todd
Local Festivals – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
For the past century or more, the Gunnison Valley — in one way or another — has drowned in water issues. From its infancy, Gunnison provided a paradise for those who recognized the value of the region’s resources — especially water.
In the Shortness of My Days, by Lynda La Rocca
Review by Martha Quillen
Poetry – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
In the Shortness of My Days
by Lynda La Rocca
Published in 1993
by New Spirit Press, Kew Gardens, N.Y.
Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park, by Karl Hess Jr
Review by Ed Quillen
Wildlife – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park – An Unnatural History
by Karl Hess, Jr.
Published in 1993 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0-87081-309-9
Historical Atlas of Colorado, by Thomas J. Noel et al.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Historical Atlas of Colorado
by Thomas J. Noel, Paul E. Mahoney, and Richard F. Stevens
Published in 1994 by University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0-8061-2555-1
Notes & Commentary for May 1994
Brief by Various
Mountain Life – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Rising to the Occasion
LEADVILLE — Hypsometry (the lore of altitudes) was simpler a few years ago. Climax Molybdenum was running, and so was its post office at zip code 80429 — the highest in the United States at about 11,200 feet.
Jack Frost is supposed to depart soon
Article by Ed Quillen
Climate – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
This is when even devout non-gardeners like me drool uncontrollably over seed catalogs. Every four-color variety of squash, bean or melon looks comely, even luscious — and then there’s the fine print:
GROWING SEASON 170 DAYS.
Saguache Museum is the core of the community
Article by Martha Quillen
Museums – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
In his 1959 book, Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, Perry Eberhart says, “Saguache is almost as colorful today as it was during its early years. One of the few county seats in Colorado without a railroad, Saguache has retained its frontier personality. Cowboys still dress the part here. The city is interesting and prosperous.
The Little Engines that Can, in Buena Vista
Article by Martha & Ed Quillen
Museums – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Before the turn of the century, central Colorado boasted nearly 600 miles of railroads — the main lines of the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado Midland, and the Denver, South Park and Pacific, as well as branches to Westcliffe, Crestone, and Monarch.
The third landmark in Silver Cliff
Article by Hal Walter
Musuems – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Really, there are only three landmarks in the Wet Mountain Valley town of Silver Cliff. Two are taverns; the other, the Silver Cliff Museum.
If you happen to stumble out of the Silver Dome or Clever’s on a bright summer afternoon and need a sobering thought, walk — don’t drive — down the road a block or two to the museum. Author John K. Aldrich, who wrote Ghosts of the Sangre de Cristo Area, said the Silver Cliff Museum was one of the best he’d seen.
Leadville leads in quality and variety
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Museums – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Leadville has been called a lot of things over the years. Some nicknames — Two-Mile-High City, Cloud City, Magic City — are picturesque; many others are unprintable.
A rarely mentioned, but truly deserved, sobriquet is “Museum Capital of Colorado.” With more than half a dozen such attractions, Leadville offers about one museum for every 500 residents, which might qualify it as “Per-Capita Museum Leader of the Observable Universe.” And one museum even doubles as the temporal lodging for the city’s resident deity, a friendly, bearded individual who goes by the name of L.G. (“Living God”) Cosmos.
Salida Museum has a little bit of everything
Article by Martha Quillen Museums – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine History can’t be toted on a cash register, nor added up like so many numbers and presented with unfailing accuracy — for history is a living thing, wholly reliant on those who feed and nurture it. South Park City has breathed life into …
South Park City displays daily life
Article by Martha Quillen
Museums – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
In 1885, Leadville was the second largest city in Colorado with 16,000 citizens, three daily newspapers, two weeklies, two hospitals, two telephone companies, eight schools, seven churches, three Masonic lodges, two Odd Fellow lodges, thirteen hotels, two railroads, eight smelting and reduction works, an uncountable number of mining operations both large and small, plus a gas company, a water works company and an electric lights company.
Preserve endangered species by sending them to town
Essay by Peggy Godfrey
Wildlife Management – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Just pick up a metro paper or turn on the tv news, and you see that our big cities have problems with violent gangs, and the obvious solutions aren’t acceptable to many well-meaning people.
Meanwhile, we have problems here with coyotes, bears, lions, and the like, and the obvious solution also affronts many well-meaning people.
