Casimiro Barela, state senator for over 37 years, fought to ensure Colorado’s first constitution was published in English, Spanish and German.
Recreation & Entertainment - Native American
Submitted on: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 1:19 pm
Since its incorporation as the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual life of Denver and Colorado. By the late 1920s, largely thanks to its excavations of paleo-Indian projectile points at Folsom, New Mexico, it was gaining an international reputation. Since the 1950s it has added to its luster by expanding its building in Denver’s City Park, collecting tens of thousands of items, revamping its displays, and hosting crowd-pleasing traveling exhibits.
Visitors to the 2007...
Submitted on: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 3:50 pm
Duane A. Smith, the dean of western mining history and Colorado’s preeminent historian with over fifty books to his credit, now turns his keen eye on David Day, the acerbic editor and owner of the Ouray, Colorado, Solid Muldoon. In The Irrepressible David F. Day, Smith takes a look at the man behind one of the most hated and loved newspapers in the nineteenth-century American West.
Certainly, Day was prepared to enter the rough-and-tumble world of a wide-awake silver camp. Born on a Ohio farm in 1847, he early showed independence and a strong resistance to parental authority,...