La Garita Caldera
Mount St. Helens’ eruption in 1980 is the reference point for most Americans’ familiarity with volcanoes.
Casimiro Barela and the Constitution
One constitution, three ways… Casimiro Barela wanted Colorado’s foundational document to be as comprehensible as possible. Born over the border in Nuevo México, Barela came to the territory as a young […]
Molly Goodnight
The modern Western “Lonesome Dove” drew inspiration from rancher Charles Goodnight’s legendary cattle drives. The Goodnight-Loving trail that stretched from Texas helped develop Colorado’s ranching industry in the late 1800s.
Hackberry Hill
A single tree once stood guard over a hill in Arvada – a hackberry. For early settlers it was a landmark, its twisted trunk a seat for weary travelers.
Shed antlers
Most deer antlers have eight points, but in 2021 a hunter took down a 26-POINT buck west of Colorado Springs.
Phantom Canyon
Do phantoms really roam Phantom Canyon Road? Reports of apparitions abound on what used to be the railroad from Florence to Cripple Creek.
Potatoes
Rufus Clark came to Colorado in the Gold Rush and found treasure in potatoes! “Potato King” Clark’s first wagonload sold for fifteen hundred dollars, a fortune in 1860.
Fireweed
Hike through a forest scorched by fire. Blackened trunks give way to a wash of brilliant pink and magenta blooms sweeping the ground before you. Fireweed is Colorado’s comeback artist.
Blue columbine
Six species of columbine grow in Colorado, but only one holds the state crown — the blue columbine.
Mountain Plover
A plover on the plains is like a canary in a coal mine. Despite its name, the Mountain Plover prefers the dryer and open prairie of eastern Colorado.
Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
The CPR studios welcomed students from Julia Cogan and Miriam O’Connor’s 5th-grade class from Escuela de Guadalupe.
Minnie J. Reynolds
Journalist Minnie J. Reynolds started writing for the Rocky Mountain News’ society page in the late 1800s.
Melvin-Lewis Cemetery
A shopping center near Cherry Creek State Park is like many of its kind — big box shops, retail and eating establishments.
Colorado Springs, Brown Teeth, and Fluoride
When Frederick McKay got to Colorado Springs in 1901 to set up his first dental practice, no one knew what he would soon help to discover: the connection between Fluoride […]
