History – The Journal

Early Mesa Verde center included cabins, a shop and a bear

If you were to ask the man on the street, “Where is Hallarville?” You would get a blank stare. Old-timers know it was a 40-acre roadside business on the north side of U.S. Highway 160, oppos...

DATE: May 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Silverton students examine the town’s untold stories

Fourth-, fifth-graders explore numerous cultures with a role in state’s history

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Living

Cortez celebrates pioneer past on Historic Preservation Day

Walking tours and performance draw a crowd

DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Canyons of the Ancients museum offers cultural events

‘Ask a Ranger’ program is every Sunday

DATE: May 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Miera y Pacheco was first European to map the Four Corners

In 18th century, Miera y Pacheco was first European to create maps of our region

DATE: Apr 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Lecture to discuss Ansel Hall collection

The Journal Benjamin DuMontier, 2017-18 Center of Southwest Studies doctoral fellow, will give a presentation about the Ansel Hall collection at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Center ...

DATE: Apr 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Mystery surrounds Estebanico, black explorer of U.S. Southwest

He is considered the first person of African descent to enter the American Southwest

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

CMS seeks community volunteers for mock trial

Eighth-graders will argue historical, current genocides

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Unlimited Learning Center holds open house

Longtime teacher will be recognized

DATE: Feb 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Life in Big Bend and the young Cortez in 1885

I was born in Kansas in the Indian Territory in 1870. About five years of age, I came with my family to Colorado, where we lived for a short time. When I was fifteen years, old D...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Galloping Goose schedules winter excursions

Excursions planned for February

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Emil Johnson and the start of hospital care in Cortez

Emil E. Johnson was born in the south of Sweden in 1882. In 1897, he came with his brother, Otto, to Minnesota but settled on a farm in South Dakota. He did farm work and went to school. He ...

DATE: Dec 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back