Colorado is more than beautiful mountains, windswept prairies, and arid deserts. It’s the stories of the people who came before us
Visitors tour the dwellings at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park on July 12, 2017. , of the triumphs and tragedies of life in the rugged frontier, of a state and nation going through growing pains.
Historical re-enactor and living history interpreter Bob Kisthart, dressed in period clothing, closes up the fort for the day at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in La Junta, Colorado on March 10, 2024. In 1833, there was nothing but wilderness between Missouri and the Mexican settlements of the Southwest.That year, William and Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort, the only major white settlement along the trail for 16 years.
The clashing civilizations perhaps could have built a better future here. William Bent himself married a Cheyenne woman and tried to show that peaceful coexistence was possible. The city at 10,158 feet rose practically overnight after prospectors discovered gold and silver in California Gulch in the 1860s.
Durango & Silverton narrow gauge train engineer Russell Heerdt hangs out of the window after returning from a day’s trip on April 15, 2019, in Durango. The historic train still makes daily trips for tourists on 45.2 miles of track between the two towns. Deep in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, few Colorado towns are as isolated as Silverton.The train, today reimagined as a tourist attraction, runs 3 hours through improbably rugged terrain.
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, hysteria led to the relocation of 110,000 Japanese-Americans to remote internment camps around the West.
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