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Hunters and artists: Glen Canyon rock art created by an ancient culture on the move

As I walk the trail between cliff and river, I search again for the face. It’s 10 inches tall. The eyes and mouth are distinctly pecked, two antenna rise above the head. I almost walk past i...

DATE: May 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Roosevelt in Colorado: Stained glass honors president who cherished the West

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Sagamore Hill, New York, but his contributions to the West and to Colorado live on. Teddy was beloved by many West...

DATE: Apr 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

Of the thousands of Native American rock-art panels in the Southwest, none are older than the Barrier Canyon pictographs found throughout the Colorado Plateau and concentrated along rivers, ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

Of the thousands of Native American rock-art panels in the Southwest, none are older than the Barrier Canyon pictographs found throughout the Colorado Plateau and concentrated along rivers, ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

A Mesa Verde plate: New tags would help support national park

Instead of fake news, how about real news? Instead of political posturing and name calling, how about a project to unite us as a region and a state? How about a Mesa Verde National Park lice...

DATE: Feb 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Trampling barriers: Mancos artist’s bronze sculpture honors fall of Berlin Wall

President George H.W. Bush helped reunite East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell, and a Mancos artist cast a 7-ton bronze sculpture commemorating the event. For 28 years,...

DATE: Jan 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Into the great unknown: Mancos mapmaker chronicles Powell’s epic 1869 journey

In the Southwest, river runners and river rats have the same great, great grandfather. Our patriarch is the one-armed Maj. John Wesley Powell, who launched four wooden boats in M...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

In the Southwest, river runners and river rats have the same great, great grandfather. Our patriarch is the one-armed Maj. John Wesley Powell, who launched four wooden boats in M...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

Event at Fort Lewis College to explore the possibility of reintroduction

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

In Colorado, we have 12 streams named Wolf Creek, yet officially, we have no wolves in our state. A reprint of a rare book helps to explain the loss of Colorado’s wolves, and the ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The Woolly West: ‘Sheepscapes’ tell the story of sheepherding in Colorado

Everybody writes about cowboys. Nobody writes about sheepherders. Of the hundreds of books written about cowboys and cowboying in the American West, there are few volumes on shee...

DATE: Oct 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

For 15 years, my dog, Finn, was a beloved companion, hiking partner

It has been enough time now that I can finally write this column without choking up. These are some of the hardest words I’ve ever written. Tears have clouded my vision but not m...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Hunters and artists: Glen Canyon rock art created by an ancient culture on the move

Roosevelt in Colorado: Stained glass honors president who cherished the West

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

A Mesa Verde plate: New tags would help support national park

Trampling barriers: Mancos artist’s bronze sculpture honors fall of Berlin Wall

Into the great unknown: Mancos mapmaker chronicles Powell’s epic 1869 journey

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

The Woolly West: ‘Sheepscapes’ tell the story of sheepherding in Colorado

For 15 years, my dog, Finn, was a beloved companion, hiking partner

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