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Position: Gulliford's Travels
Position: For The Journal
Position: Special to the Herald
By Andrew Gulliford Special to the Herald Colleges love donors, and Fort Lewis College is no exception. Center of Southwest Studies at FLC has many friends and donors, but a standout contributor is...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
After 60 years of marriage, Gene and Mary Foushee passed on this summer just nine days apart. The couple was 88 years old and had lived a rich, full life. They will be remembered for many things,...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
In grocery stores today, we can buy fruit from all over the world. A century ago, farm products were local, and a thriving orchard business had begun in the Animas Valley at Hermosa under stunning...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Imagine being on a Colorado river in the heart of the summer and seeing no one else on the water for 32 miles, three days and two nights. I couldn’t believe it, but there we were in June on a...
DATE: Aug. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Across the Old West, what was once function is now fashion. Well-worn cowboy boots, spurs, saddles and Stetsons all have a new cachet as collectibles. One man’s junk is another man’s buffed up...
DATE: July 11, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
As the snow piles up, I think of warm desert hikes. One of my favorites is a place in Colorado that looks and feels like Utah, except rocks are gone. Dominguez Creek has some of the oldest rocks in...
DATE: July 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Just west of Pagosa Springs is a small roadside park north of the highway. A bronze plaque set in granite says that more than a century ago Capt. Albert Pfeiffer stripped naked on behalf of Utes in...
DATE: June 13, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
One of the great mysteries of the Four Corners and the Southwest has been the 1934 disappearance of young artist Everett Ruess. He left the Utah village of Escalante alone, descended Davis Gulch...
DATE: May 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
“We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give,” Winston Churchill said. Now, two Colorado native sons are practicing that wisdom by giving back to their hometowns. Both men...
DATE: May 11, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
“We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give,” Winston Churchill said. Now, two Colorado native sons are practicing that wisdom by giving back to their hometowns. Both men...
DATE: April 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, 49-year-old Marie Ogden, a spiritualist and millennial Christian, moved to Dry Valley in San Juan County, Utah, to establish a religious colony and...
DATE: March 9, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Anyone who has hiked the Bright Angel Trail off the Grand Canyon’s South Rim knows the pleasure 9 miles below of finding Phantom Ranch. How the ranch got there, who planted the first trees and who...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
