Gulliford's Travels - The Journal

Snowy River Cave and historic Fort Stanton, New Mexico

Near Ruidoso, New Mexico lies a 19th century military fort, now a state historic site, surrounded by public land and thick, untouched grasses only lightly grazed by cavalry horses. But what’...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Paddling Birch Creek, Alaska: Dispatch from a warming world

This summer, with Fort Lewis College alumni and a current FLC history student, seven of us canoed Birch Creek, which is one of Alaska’s wild and scenic rivers east of Fairbanks. We paddled f...

DATE: Aug 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Father & daughter artists and the Doel Reed Center in Taos

A father-daughter artistic team from Oklahoma settled in Taos, New Mexico, on acreage that is now the Doel Reed Center. Oklahoma State University owns the center and OSU students, donors, an...

DATE: May 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The Hermit Monk of New Mexico’s Organ Mountains

The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in southern New Mexico has unique geology, birds, reptiles, plants, and human history – including a murdered monk. As we approach the Chris...

DATE: Dec 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Following the Colorado River from Moab to Mexico

With the two largest reservoirs in the nation perilously low, and the Colorado River Basin experiencing the worst drought in centuries, we decided to follow the river by bus from Grand Lake ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Steens Mountain, Oregon: Buckaroos, Basques and glacial gorges

Way out west where ranchers’ mailboxes are 50-gallon drums set on their side, I drove northwest of Winnemucca on a straight-line course to Denio, Nevada. As I crossed into Oregon the only tr...

DATE: Nov 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Becoming Colorado: 100 objects that illuminate the state’s vivid history and people

Imagine trying to define our state’s diverse history and culture by carefully choosing 100 objects selected from History Colorado’s 15 million documents, photographs and artifacts. Then, on...

DATE: Jul 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Lake Powell’s future: As water recedes, new opportunities for recreation

Lake Powell, the blue-green gem of the Colorado River and one of the 20th century triumphs of the Bureau of Reclamation, is in trouble. Not a lake but a reservoir, its shrinking water level...

DATE: Jun 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Stories in stone: Guide Rickey Hayes interprets the past at Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park

One of our archaeological treasures in the Four Corners is Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park. All visitors must be accompanied by an official Native guide and one of the best is Rickey Hayes, who...

DATE: May 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Amache concentration camp commencement: Honoring internee Marion Konishi

In protest of racism in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Twelve years earlier, Marion Konishi gave a speech. Who was Marion Konishi and why is...

DATE: Mar 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The challenging task of changing place names on public lands

Last month, the Department of the Interior asked for nominations for a new Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names. The goal is to replace derogatory names on millions of acres a...

DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

A dark day for democracy

Teaching the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

DATE: Jan 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels