What is the Oldest Photo of the Garden of the Gods?
I’ve been working on a modern version of a book about Colorado that was published in 1877 (more to come of that at a future date), so...
Losing Colorado's Heritage to Time and Vandals
One of the most disheartening things in this modern age is the disappearance of so much of Colorado's old heritage. I've tramped...
Little Church on the Colorado Prairie
Two historic Orthodox churches rise from the shortgrass prairie in eastern Colorado five miles north of Calhan. The humble churches...
Celebrating the Autumnal Equinox
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 Mountain Daylight Time marks the Autumnal Equinox, the day when the celestial equator passes over the midpoint...
Colorado Springs & Pikes Peak Avenue: 1890 and Now
One of my many projects is recreating the same scenes as old photographs of Colorado Springs. So much of the city's old ambiance and arc
Haunted Tunnels: Chasing Ghosts on Colorado's Gold Camp Road
Restless spirits have long haunted the Pikes Peak region. Cripple Creek, an 1890s gold mining town on the west side of Pikes Peak, is repute
Dateline 1858: First Anglo Woman to Climb Pikes Peak
On August 5, 1858, 160 years ago this year, 20-year-old Julia Archibald Holmes reached the airy 14,115-foot-high summit of Pikes Peak, perha
The Moab Mastodon: Did the Big Beast Once Roam Utah?
The Moab Mastodon, a petroglyph on on a cliff band 300 feet above Hys Bottom on the Colorado River north of Moab, Utah, possibly represents
Dirty Secrets about the 1890s Gilded Age
Here is a famous photograph taken by photographer Jacob Riis in New York City in 1890 of three boys asleep on dirty stairs in a tenement aft
