Those Little Boxes are Summer Homes for Bluebirds

Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer

Wildlife – April 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine

ONE OF THE LOVELIEST, if not most vocal, harbingers of spring in the high country is the Mountain Bluebird. Every year I marvel when I see the first flitting scrap of brilliant blue flying from fence post to fence post along our county road, or spot one of these tiny announcers of warmer weather perched atop a small pine like an electric blue Christmas ornament.

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The RV City at Antero Junction

Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer

Roadside Attractions – July 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine

YEARS AGO BUFFALO ROAMED HERE, and Ute Indians hunted along the pine-timbered ridges and grassy bottoms of the South Fork of the South Platte River. When the homesteaders and ranchers arrived in South Park this was the domain of the Harringtons, the 63 Ranch, and Tom McQuaid’s Salt Works Ranch; cattle replaced the buffalo, and cowboys rode the rocky hills.

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The Story behind the Ginger Greene sign in Jefferson

Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer

Rodeo – August 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine

People driving through Jefferson — a small settlement on U.S. 285 in South Park which consists of a post office and general store, a few houses, and an abandoned railroad depot restored into an abandoned real estate office — can’t help but notice the sign on the east side of the settlement: “Jefferson, Colorado. Home of Ginger Greene. Miss Rodeo Colorado 1991”.

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