Getting up to steam
The 25th Anniversary of the Durango Railroad Historical Society
DATE: Dec 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Andrew Gulliford
Position: Staff reporter
Public land patriots: SJMA Volunteers Help the Forest
As we enter fall and aspen leaves have turned in the high country, there are fewer U.S. Forest Service personnel to help monitor, preserve and protect our federal public lands. Bu
dget cuts ...
DATE: Nov 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Thank you, Public Land Patriots: Volunteers help on Federal Lands
This is part one of a two-part series on public land volunteers. Part II will focus on the Durango-based San Juan Mountains Association.
The Republican Trump Administration has drastica...
DATE: Oct 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Westward Wagons on the Oregon Trail
Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and...
DATE: Sep 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Around the world not counting days: A solo trip in 1958-1959
Imagine being a college graduate in history and then deciding to seek an education. That’s exactly what young John Kessell did in 1958 by ship, train, bus, airplane, Land Rovers, Morris Mini...
DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
A uranium boom again across the Four Corners?
The end of World War II brought the Four Corners a uranium boom. Eight decades later, yellowcake may be making a comeback, but the deadly effects of radioactivity seem to be forgotten.
In th...
DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and a Road Less Traveled
Driving north of Taos and Tres Piedras, New Mexico, and headed toward the Colorado line, I’d seen the sign for Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, but I’d never turned off. Now in July l...
DATE: Jun 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Riding hard for the Pony Express
Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and i...
DATE: May 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Historic Hubbell Trading Post
In 1878, a decade after Navajos returned from the Long Walk and their forced imprisonment at Fort Sumner, John Lorenzo Hubbell established a trading post at Ganado, Arizona. He would come to...
DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
On the trail of vintage trailers
Last year, I stumbled into a vintage trailer rally – Antiques of the Spanish Peaks at the La Veta Pines RV Park in the small town of La Veta. I was captivated by the gleaming, eye-popping al...
DATE: Feb 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Utah’s potential land grab: A new fight for the West begins
Utah politicians seek to ignore the U.S. Constitution by claiming 18.5 million acres of your federal public land – most of it administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Utahans have ofte...
DATE: Jan 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Cathedral in the Desert: Tucson’s San Xavier del Bac
To see intricate Baroque Spanish architecture, tourists travel to Mexico, Spain, Portugal and across South America. Or you can visit Tucson, Arizona, to tour San Xavier del Bac Mission churc...
DATE: Dec 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
