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The Wild Bunch rides again – on bicycles

Over a century ago Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and their fellow outlaws, The Wild Bunch, rode the Outlaw Trail from Robber’s Roost in Utah to Hole in the Wall, Wyoming. Along the way th...

DATE: Nov 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness turns 100

In 1924, forester Aldo Leopold convinced his superiors in the regional office of the U.S. Forest Service to set aside thousands of acres in the Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico a...

DATE: Oct 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

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

Southwest Center celebrates 60 years

Sixty years ago this month Morley and Arthur Ballantine, Jr. agreed to donate $10,000 to establish a Center of Southwest Studies on the Fort Lewis College campus. My how that idea has expand...

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

The Mystery of Western Messaging Petroglyphs

There is a style of petroglyphs or rock writing that is not Native American. Neither is it historic inscriptions left by Westward-moving pioneers. It is a coded set of symbols called Western...

DATE: Jun 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

Morley Nelson, birds of prey, and Snake River Canyon

I can think of no better legacy than to protect a landscape in perpetuity for wild species, but the politics of preservation are never easy. Near Boise, Idaho, Morlan “Morley” Nelson sought ...

DATE: Apr 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Billy the Kid lives on in New Mexico

Billy the Kid is alive and well in New Mexico, or at least it seems that way. He’s doing much better than Sheriff Pat Garrett who shot him in the back and thus violated the Code of the West....

DATE: Mar 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Lewis & Clark, Pompeys Pillar, and bison in Montana

Returning home from the Pacific Ocean and a wet winter at Fort Clatsop in Oregon, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery was delighted to enter the thick grasslands of eastern Montana. Instead...

DATE: Jan 20, 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

A generous donation to FLC

Longtime resident, Karen Hunzeker donates her farm to Fort Lewis College

DATE: Nov 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels