Pioneering passion for plants: Botanist Alice Eastwood explored the Southwest
Famous botanist Alice Eastwood explored the Southwest a flower at a time
DATE: Mar 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
A failed attempt to remove the Southern Utes to San Juan County, Utah
Whenever I hike in Bears Ears National Monument, I think about how it almost became an Native American reservation.
Over a century ago, Durango businessmen actively campaigned to...
DATE: Feb 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
On the trail of tiny tubers This Four Corners potato was a staple of Native American diets
For years, we’ve learned that ancestral Puebloans depended upon corn, beans and squash, nicknamed The Three Sisters, for sustenance.
Well, move over sisters. Little brother spud ...
DATE: Jan 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Helper’s new riches: Utah railroad, coal mining town reinvents itself as artistic haven
Soiled doves are visible from hotel room windows in Helper, Utah, but now they are just mannequins. This gritty coal mining and railroad boomtown has embraced its diverse ethnic past. A new ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Pendleton blankets inspired by Navajo designs benefit Center of Southwest Studies
Babies get wrapped in Pendleton trade blankets. At Native American ceremonies and giveaways, the gift of choice is usually Pendleton blankets. Pendleton blankets are given to returning veter...
DATE: Nov 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
The case of the stolen stove doors: Couple gives mining history to San Juan Historical Society
Couple give mining history to San Juan Historical Society
DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Through the Grand Canyon before Major Powell?
This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Major John Wesley Powell’s daring expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. But was he the first? Another story exists with...
DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Canadian Rockies by rail
History Colorado explores the West, up north
DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
When a killer wore a deputy’s badge in Telluride
When a killer wore a deputy’s badge and a golden smile
DATE: Jul 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
On the woolly trail
Sheep stories in the West run from the high country into canyons
DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Hunters and artists: Glen Canyon rock art created by an ancient culture on the move
As I walk the trail between cliff and river, I search again for the face. It’s 10 inches tall. The eyes and mouth are distinctly pecked, two antenna rise above the head. I almost walk past i...
DATE: May 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
Roosevelt in Colorado: Stained glass honors president who cherished the West
Stained glass honors president who cherished the West
DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels
