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Colorado history rhymes

  • Quentin Young

Daily life in early Colorado history can seem alien to modern observers.  In 1876, the year of statehood, it could take weeks for mail to arrive in Breckenridge, then a hamlet of 250 people that was accessible by wagon road. Denver’s daily newspaper contained numerous items about who in town had gone on vacation and […]

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Fifty for 150: Ute bands expelled from Colorado’s Western Slope in 1881

  • Chase Woodruff

When Colorado attained statehood in 1876, roughly half of the portion of the new Centennial State that lay west of the Continental Divide was still reserved for the Ute people. Grand Junction, Durango, Aspen, Gunnison and Glenwood Springs were among the many Colorado communities that didn’t yet exist. An 1868 treaty between the U.S. government and […]