DENVER—There’s evidence of what happened here. Aaron Gordon’s champagne-protecting ski goggles still hang from his locker, players hit the showers … More
Category: Colorado
“Red Rocks” Ampitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre (also known colloquially as simply Red Rocks) is an open-air amphitheatre in the western United States near Morrison, Colorado, approximately ten miles (16 km) southwest … More
highest paved road in North America
The Mount Blue Sky (Mount Evans) Scenic Byway is a 49-mile (79 km) National Forest Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Clear Creek and Jefferson counties, Colorado, … More
Fremont Pass
Fremont Pass is a 11,318-foot (3,450 m) mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. It forms the continental divide on the border between Lake … More
Tennessee Pass
Tennessee Pass elevation 10,424 ft (3,177 m) is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass was named after Tennessee, the native … More
The Little Arkansas Treaty 1865
The Little Arkansas Treaty was a set of treaties signed between the United States of America and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho at Little Arkansas River, … More
Leadville (Oro City) at an elevation of 10,158 feet
Leadville is a former silver mining town that lies among the headwaters of the Arkansas River within the Rocky Mountains. In the late 19th century, Leadville was … More
Colorado’s elk population is the largest in the world
In the early 1900s, only 40,000 elk remained in all of North America. The elk’s dramatic demise was attributed to … More
Endangered and Reintroduced Native Species in Colorado
11 animals not commonly seen in Colorado 1. Ringtail A nocturnal species, the ringtail is a small, secretive creature that … More
Black Land Theft and the Racial Wealth Divide
Over the course of a century, white farmers and landowners developed tax and property law schemes that allowed them to … More
Tlaib Speaks on Censure Resolution
Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) delivered a speech on the House floor on the attempts to silence her: I’m the only Palestinian … More
We Are Being Silenced
Who can speak these days? Do faculty members feel comfortable speaking and writing about controversial topics and societal oppressions on … More
‘Kill Every Buffalo You Can!’
It was near the end of September, an unusually warm week in 1871, and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and a … More
What Palestinians and the American Indians Share
How can the US government criticize the racist practices of Israel, when it has never really confronted its own history … More
CO Jewish and Palestinian community react
Conflict broke out in the Middle East following a deadly surprise attack on Israel from the Gaza militant group Hamas … More
Reinventing American Democracy
Founded nearly 250 years ago, the United States of America is the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. Its infancy, under the … More
Coach Prime’s Buffs Stun No. 17 TCU, 45-42
Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes shocked the college football world Saturday by outlasting No. 17 TCU 45-42 on the … More
Before A CO Community Called ‘The Dry’ Dried Up
South of Manzanola in Colorado’s Eastern Plains, there once was a community called The Dry. Carolyn Sanders, who grew up … More
Kind of a Colorado trifecta
As much of America was suffering under a heat dome lately, a Colorado ski resort found it had enough leftover … More
Preston John Porter Jr., 15, was lynched in Limon, CO
On November 16, 1900, a 15-year-old Black teenager named Preston “John” Porter Jr. was burned alive while chained to a railroad stake … More
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