Colorado Postcards

Colorado’s high elevation and dry climate make for good stargazing unless you’re near a city that glows with light pollution, making it hard to see any but the brightest stars […]

When smallpox came to a gold camp near Hoosier Pass, the women all went to Fairplay – except for one. They called her Silverheels.

When he first visited Colorado, Schuyler Colfax was stepbrother to a Denverite – and near the front of the line of succession to be US President.

For a few hours in April 1902, child welfare was on the minds of Colorado lawmakers. Specifically, one child’s welfare, because someone had left a baby inside the state capitol.

In the mid 1800s, Colorado’s growing population was hungry. Meat-eaters typically ate animals that came up from Texas on hoof, somewhat worse for the wear.

Pikes Peak once bore the name of the first non-native to reach its summit, Edwin James, who called the landscape a “region of astonishing beauty.”

A grove of Aspen, all turning one vibrant color, is also a sign of something underground: those hundred golden or fiery red trees are all one organism.

John B Stetson traveled to Colorado as a young man, to see the Rockies while he still could. He had tuberculosis.