One hundred sixty years ago this month, the first large group of emaciated Navajos began trekking eastward from their homeland to a new reservation. It became known as the Long
In 1866, U.S. Army Col. Anson Mills, then at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, wrote a letter to Judge Christian Eyster, of Colorado’s Territorial Supreme Court. He sought Eyster’s support for a
A week before the Taylor Grazing Act was signed into law on June 28, 1934, by President Franklin Roosevelt, The Daily Sentinel signaled its approval of the measure, which passed
In 1983, Mesa County was still reeling from the oil-shale bust a year earlier. So, it was big news in July 1983 when the county’s jobless rate declined to 12.7%,
In 1995, when the owners of DT Swiss Inc., a bicycle components company, searched for a location in the United States to serve their U.S. customers, the logical place would
When two Denver & Rio Grande Railroad trains collided on the night of Jan. 15, 1909, near the east entrance to Glenwood Canyon, 26 people died, and blame for the
Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, closed their drinking parlors and confiscated 75 gallons of booze.
Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, closed their drinking parlors and confiscated 75 gallons of booze.
When Elijah Hines died 100 years ago this spring, his life was celebrated in a front-page Daily Sentinel article with a headline that read: “Born a Slave, He Died an
Ten thousand years before humans developed agriculture or built the first cities in Mesopotamia, Ancient Native Americans trekked across southern New Mexico carrying cargo on wooden travois they dragged behind
When then-Daily Sentinel Publisher Ken Johnson learned the newspaper’s press building was on fire the night of April 9, 1974, he was in Salt Lake City, where he was to