Throwback Thursday: Extreme Weather a Century Ago
by Patti Dahlberg Colorado’s weather has set numerous records for highs, lows, and coldest months on record over the past year or so. Just two years ago, we experienced an […]
History
A Journey of 14,000 Feet Begins With a Single Step, or “How to (Re)Name a Colorado Mountain”
by Conrad Imel In 1861, when botanist Dr. Charles C. Parry was on his first botanical exploration of the Rocky Mountain region in Colorado, two tall mountain peaks attracted the […]
The Mighty Colorado River – Once Known as Merely Grand
by Patti Dahlberg Today the name “Colorado” runs continuously with the mighty river that originates in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains and runs south and west for 1,450 miles through Utah and […]
Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at 1921 and the Twenty-third General Assembly – Part 2
by Patti Dahlberg In the first part of our look back at 1921 and the Twenty-third General Assembly, we learned that the “Roaring Twenties” we associate with economic prosperity and […]
Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at 1921 and the Twenty-third General Assembly – Part 1
by Patti Dahlberg If we went back fifty regular legislative sessions and one hundred years, what would we find? In Colorado, as a result of the November 1920 election (the […]