Supreme Court and District Judge end Linda Stanley’s final attempt to avoid punishment
By Jordan Hedberg
The five-year saga of the rise and fall of Linda Stanley entered its closing chapter over the last week as the Colorado Supreme Court ruled...
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Burros, volunteers, and a mission to bring water to LT100 runners on Hope Pass
By Jordan Hedberg
We recently spent four days camped out at timberline up Hope Pass —about 11,800 feet in altitude — helping support the highest aid station for...
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A steam whistle blasts in the Wet Mountain Valley for the first time in 86 years
By Jordan Hedberg
In 1939, as the United States continued to struggle to fully recover from the decade-long Great Depression, places like Westcliffe were still far from experiencing...
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Rockfall at dawn: Two good Samaritans rescue a man struck in the head during rockfall on Little Bear Peak
By Jordan Hedberg
The dark blue, almost black, of the morning twilight was only punctuated by the headlamps of three hikers as they reached the polished granite chute...
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Another smoke pall summer as wildfires choke fresh air
By Jordan Hedberg
As of this writing, there is some hope that the wildfire smoke pall brought into the Valley by a cold front earlier this week may...
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Posts published in April 2011

Colorado and the Civil War

By Mike Rosso on April 4, 2011

By Kenneth Jessen

The Civil War started 150 years ago when Confederate forces attacked a United States military installation at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. It might seem distant to Colorado, but it had an indirect effect on the state’s development.