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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Posts tagged as “Sound of the Sun”

Sound of the Sun

By Mike Rosso on March 1, 2013

The sound of the sun

sweeps the burning bowls of snow

ignites all that is certain

delicate flakes fall, then

white wombs of night swell

like a mystical ocean

in the middle of the plains

the Rockies rise above