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 […]
Mt Rosalie
The fourteener nearest Denver, Blue Sky used to be called Mount Evans after the governor responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre.
Decalibron
The Decalibron … neither an ancient Greek sport nor a machine of science fiction, it’s a hiking trail that gets its name from the first syllables of Mounts Democrat, Cameron, […]
Papa Jack Weil’s Western Shirt
Colorado helped stitch the legacy of cowboy style in Denver in the 1940s. Western shirts evolved from rugged leather to breathable cotton, and their design followed suit.
Ivy Baldwin
Balloonist William “Ivy” Baldwin was the first American aviator to be shot down in wartime – in 1898, during the Spanish-American War.
Olga Little
When Olga Little came to Durango in 1895 as a teenager, she was already an experienced horse handler. She then became Colorado’s first woman “jackpacker.”
Ouray’s Danny Boy Connection
You don’t get more Irish than Danny Boy. And yet, without a Colorado link, that poignant combination of words and music might never have happened.
Julia Greeley
On the streets of Denver in the late 1800s, a woman in tattered clothes, pulling a wagon laden with food, fuel and clothing, was a model of philanthropy.
Avalanches
Colorado gets thousands of avalanches a year. The Ute knew to avoid avalanche-prone areas, but many miners and settlers did not.
