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At the beginning of La Plata County history, even before Colorado statehood in 1876, the Hans Aspaas family was here. Over the next 140 years, family members moved across the county. One son...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
The scattered remnants of the 1960s generation have mostly grown older, softer and lost their cutting edge. Not so for writer, conservationist and bow-hunter David Petersen, who moved with his...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
“There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land,” wrote Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac. As one of the 20th century’s top...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Editor’s note: This column was first published in 2011. Florence Lister died at her home in Mancos on Sunday, Sept. 4. She was 96. MANCOS — Florence Lister’s distinguished career in Southwestern...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
There are secrets in the San Luis Valley at the northern edge of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. One of the most interesting is the riddle of large stone snakes, who built them, when and why. I...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
In researching sheep and public lands grazing across Colorado, I have seen hundreds of carved aspen trees or arborglyphs. But only one artist of the aspens truly stands out. His work enlivened the...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Above the white sand beaches in Whirlpool Canyon lies a 19th-century secret lightly etched in ancient stone. Two initials and the date 1838 tell of a lost world and one man’s singular perseverance....
DATE: Dec. 10, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
We launched our rafts on the Yampa River at Deer Lodge Park, lunched at Stubs Cabin, stayed at Ponderosa Camp and ran Little Joe and Big Joe rapids. On our second afternoon, we pulled into...
DATE: July 9, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
She was dying as she took her place on the wooden wagon. Wrapped in quilts and an oil cloth against the cold pelting rain, her relatives spoke urgently, encouraging the team of horses. But it was...
DATE: June 22, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
A rock is a rock is a rock, unless it is in the middle of a fast flowing river and you are about to smash into it with the front of your boat. In which case, you’re apt to give it a name. River...
DATE: May 22, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
SALIDA – Traveling around the West, when it’s mealtime I’ll eat anything – and I have. Friends tell me that I am blessed with an iron stomach and a tasteless palate. Perhaps. I was in historic...
DATE: April 24, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
President Barack Obama has a few more choices than us. He can set aside thousands of acres in Utah as a new Bureau of Land Management national monument, while we can only hike there and hope our...
DATE: March 10, 2015 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
