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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
Historians love birthdays and anniversaries, and southern New Mexico is celebrating a big one. It’s been a century since the Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Elephant Butte Dam under terms of...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
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
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