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Photo of Smokey the Chewbacca Dog Goes Viral
My son Ian Green had a Yorkshire Terrier named Smokey when he lived over in Palisade in western Colorado starting about 2008. Smokey was a w
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Finally Met Legendary Climber Jim McCarthy
Jim McCarthy and I visit at a roadside cafe in Ridgway in mid-July. I finally met legendary climber Jim McCarthy a couple days ago in Ridgwa
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A Pikes Peak Prospector Photograph by William Henry Jackson
This amazing portrait from 1900 by William Henry Jackson, entitled "A Pikes Peak Prospector," offers lots of detail of a miner'