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Governor “Bloody Bridles.”

July 26, 2019 by Mike Rosso

By Forrest Whitman I got an email recently from a reader who threatened me with a lawsuit. He was mad about an article I wrote four years ago which included examples of shock talk from Gov. Davis Waite and President Donald Trump. Waite was the Colorado governor from 1893 till 1895, and was given to …

The Way We Really Were

May 10, 2017April 1, 2017 by Mike Rosso

By Virginia McConnell Simmons During the elections in 1892 and in 2016, the respective populism bore no resemblance one to the other. In Colorado in 1892, union organization – especially the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) – was growing rapidly, while mine owners were trying to increase the three-dollar-a-day, eight-hour work day to nine without …