Colorado – Frontier Traveler

Bent’s Old Fort, Colorado

Bent’s Old Fort, near La Junta, Colorado, is one of my top three favorite sites on the frontier. A[…]

It started with Vicki’s simple “Let’s drive up to Flagstaff for a weekend”. Ok, I thought. Then she said, “We’ve[…]

Reenactor portraying Worthington Whittredge at Bent’s Fort, La Junta, Colorado. Whittredge was a landscape painter of the Hudson River School[…]

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Pumas on Parade is a public art project of the San Juan Mountains Association – and if you’re in Durango,[…]

We’ve been fortunate enough to visit two sites relevant to the Buffalo Soldiers – the African-Americans who served in the[…]

The Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of[…]

Felipe Baca, a farmer from Northern New Mexico, settled in the area around Trinidad in 1860, drawn by the good[…]

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