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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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Colorady Gunsmoke: Outlaws and Lawmen, by Ken Jessen

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Review by Ed Quillen

Colorado History – July 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine

Colorado Gunsmoke – True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier
by Ken Jessen
Published in 1986 by J.V. Publications
ISBN 0961166258

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The real code of the West: an urban hinterland

By Staff on July 1, 1997

The Leadville Blues: Colorado’s best “base ball” team

By Staff on July 1, 1997

More time might prevent some wounds

By Staff on July 1, 1997

In Leadville, DuPont means more than dynamite

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Mother Nature can attack in many ways

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Tourism destroys environment faster than old industries did

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Floods and quakes and other geologic perils

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Driving off the pavement

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Walking in the Woods

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Arthur Lloyd Monk: the mysterious grave on Cochetopa Pass

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Guffey’s canine mayor makes TV appearance

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Curtains for the Arkansas

By Staff on July 1, 1997

Ranching the Scenery: how the new settlers rule

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Grand Tours and Cook’s Tours, by Lynne Withey

By Staff on June 1, 1997

The Information Dirt Road, by Club 20

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, by M.J. Porter and Bob Thomason

By Staff on June 1, 1997

And when elk get real high, do they become mountain goats?

By Staff on June 1, 1997

The Last Ranch: a great title, not a great book

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Do we need all this advice?

By Staff on June 1, 1997

A beginner’s guide to geologic hazards

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Hear that lonesome whistle

By Staff on June 1, 1997

What people say about those trails in the woods

By Staff on June 1, 1997

The eyes of Texas could be upon us

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Cleora once proposed for Lake County seat

By Staff on June 1, 1997

Does ‘ABC’ stand for “Always Burn Colorado”?

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Colorado Byways, by Thomas P. Huber

By Staff on May 1, 1997

They Came to Play, by Duane Smith and Mark Foster

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Images of the Past Vol. 1, by the Saguache County Museum

By Staff on May 1, 1997

The difference between growth and invasion

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Conspiracy? It’s more like a confederacy of dunces

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Pottery from the Blue Earth: Blair Meerfeld

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Build the new Bronco stadium in Leadville, not Minturn

By Staff on May 1, 1997

The deskunking recipe

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Deskunking recipe works again

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Commodity Prices and Cultural Frontiers

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Buena Vista and Saguache museums get new buildings

By Staff on May 1, 1997

What Spanish missionaries?

By Staff on May 1, 1997

The Nature Conservancy (finally) arrives in the SLV

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Guffey gets a newspaper

By Staff on May 1, 1997

He was never convicted of cannibalism

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Protecting our grandfathers’ morals

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Unique is still alive and well in Salida

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Orpheum’s resurrection won’t happen soon

By Staff on May 1, 1997

Waiting for Spring: The Struggle

By Staff on April 1, 1997