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A mosaic, not a melting pot: La Plata County and immigrants

Some bumper stickers read: “Colorado native.” Others offer: “Not native, but I got here as fast as I could.” We are a state of immigrants. Immigrants built the roads and bridges, ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Keeping the ancients warm: Ancestral Puebloans created turkey feather blankets

I love seeing turkeys in ponderosa woods, moving slowly uphill like priests absorbed in morning prayers. At twilight, they are dark shapes seeking acorns and insects, always leav...

DATE: Feb 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Smokestacks come down: The end of an era in Page, Arizona

On the morning of Dec. 18, massive simultaneous explosions leveled three huge 775-foot-tall smokestacks at Page, Arizona. It was the end of an era for the Navajo Generating Stati...

DATE: Jan 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Lost and hungry scouts: A Mormon Christmas story

During the Christmas season of 1879, four Mormon scouts navigated the treacherous canyons of Utah to establish Bluff

DATE: Dec 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Bears in the woods: Social distancing with big bruins

Social distancing is the best way to appreciate majestic bruins

DATE: Nov 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

An elk hunter welcomes wolves

Reintroduction would restore the ecological balance

DATE: Oct 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The passing of a Pueblo elder: Remembering Peter Pino

He deepened the understanding of Mesa Verde’s past

DATE: Sep 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The Other Four Corners: High in the San Juan National Forest four counties meet

Most everyone has been to the Four Corners Monument with its outdoor concrete patio and granite-and-bronze circle. Tourists sprawl in contorted positions to get both hands and both feet in e...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Cedar Mesa Perishables Project examines 1,000-year-old fiber, wood artifacts

In the 1890s, cowboy archaeologists dug caves in remote sections of Utah’s Bears Ears. They created Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan artifact collections that have been hidden a...

DATE: Jul 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Westerners used to wear masks

Because of the coronavirus, we are now asked to wear masks while working and shopping downtown. Westerners used to wear masks a century ago, so the fashion has come back around. Butch Cassid...

DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

As in the Great Depression, today’s economic refugees may take to the road

How do you write a travel column when you cannot travel? How do you write with historical perspective when you are in the middle of an historical moment? Now more than ever, we n...

DATE: May 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Adventure seekers: FLC award inspires students to pursue outdoor dreams

Author’s note: Even with a viral pandemic and a downturn in the economy, it is important to plan for the future. Fort Lewis College is doing just that. If Durangoans can’t spend time out...

DATE: Apr 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels