Hairpins as weapons? Check out the Beckwith Ranch’s new 1890s clothing exhibit decommissioned from the Molly Brown House Museum
By Jordan Hedberg
The picturesque Beckwith Ranch, formerly called the Waverly Ranch by the Beckwiths themselves, remains a historic time capsule for the Custer County community. From 1869...
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Morphew, Stanley, Payne, and the robustness of justice
By Jordan Hedberg
I tend only to publish stories that have local relevance, but I do make exceptions when news has an impact, although indirectly, on this region....
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The comedy, tragedy, and triumph of a Central Colorado native traversing the rocky slopes as an autistic college student and athlete is the subject of new dual autobiography
By Jordan Hedberg
If you have ever spent any time over the past four decades on the dirt roads and mountain trails or attended any of the burro...
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Possible 12,000 year old Paleolithic projectile point discovered in the Wet Mountains of Colorado
By Jordan Hedberg
While chugging along on his daily light run at Bear Basin Ranch a couple of Sundays ago, Gary Ziegler’s trained geological and archeological eye glimpsed...
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Part archaeologists, part Peruvian explorers, part ranchers, Gary and Amy curate regional history in the Wet Mountains of Central Colorado
By Jordan Hedberg
Ziegler and Finger have made several native discoveries on their ranch east of town including a possible Clovis crystal spear point Originally published on November...
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Preparing for Catastrophe on a Budget by Bruce LaRue

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Review by Ed Quillen

Survival – March 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine

Preparing for Catastrophe on a Budget
by Bruce LaRue
Published in 1998
by Blue Forest Books, PO Box 177, Salida

No ISBN

Harvest of Rage by Joel Dyer

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Don’t let our artists grow up to be freeloaders

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Wearable Art from Becky Kagan of Westcliffe

By Staff on March 1, 1998

A Media Fight for Leadville

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Sensitive, New-Age Texas Wimps in the Saddle

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Examining 400 years of unsettlement

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Charging for the atmosphere

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Is our state government secretly working to end the boom?

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Feds may take another look at rail merger

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Strolling with a clean conscience

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on March 1, 1998

Historic designation study starts for Old Spanish Trail

By Staff on March 1, 1998

City loses appeal, so loitering remains legal in Salida

By Staff on March 1, 1998

A New Building Code for the Rural West

By Staff on March 1, 1998

El Nino vs. the Homeowners’ Association

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Quarry Days in the Ute Trail Area

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Famous Colorado Women by Eleanor Ayer

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Massacre: the tragedy at White River by Marshall Sprague

By Staff on February 1, 1998

History of Colorado’s Women by Vivian S. Epstein

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Valley Voices, Mountain Dreams, an anthology

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Lead, Silver, Silicon: The Elements of Publishing

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Semillas de la Tierra: 25 years of Folklorico

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Where have all the Monarch butterflies gone?

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Can ski areas be all things to all people?

By Staff on February 1, 1998

No marmot day, but there is a February thaw

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Who owns our congressman?

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Heard Around the West

By Staff on February 1, 1998

UP cuts rails on Tennessee Pass

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Vote early and often in Park County?

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Gunnison just says no to paving Cottonwood

By Staff on February 1, 1998

Living in a campground without rules

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Alamosa’s Community Greenhouse

By Staff on January 1, 1998

John Earl Herschberger, the man who carved the lions

By Staff on January 1, 1998

The Trek of the Mormon Battalion

By Staff on January 1, 1998

From Turret to Salt Lake City

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Fairplay Nordic Center — a low-key resort

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Sedona offers a divine economic plan

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Let’s adopt a lesser plan

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Portland Plans to become Los Angeles

By Staff on January 1, 1998

How communities can plan better for tourism

By Staff on January 1, 1998

My part in the Salida plan

By Staff on January 1, 1998

Plan a vacation the next time your town makes a plan

By Staff on January 1, 1998