Bob Silbernagel

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 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

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 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

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

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%,

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 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

In her 2001 book "Seabiscuit, an American Legend," Laura Hillenbrand re-introduced the American public to a man who had been well-known in the 1930s: Silent Tom Smith.

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

Colorado joined the automobile age just before the turn of the 20th century. Motoring in Mesa County began a few years later. But ownership of motorcars grew rapidly. So did

At Christmas 1899, Roger Pocock was nearing the end of his remarkable solo horseback journey from Canada to Mexico City, a trip that had taken him through Grand Junction.

When the male voters of Colorado overwhelming approved giving women the right to vote in November of 1893 — the first state to approve women’s suffrage by popular vote —

Clyde H. “Bud” Grant’s school career was interrupted when he contracted Lyme disease as a youngster in Grand Junction. When he recovered, he chose not to return to school and

In early August of 1680, runners spread out across northern New Mexico and Arizona. They carried knotted pieces of cord and instructions for the headmen at each Pueblo they visited:

The frame-built Marble jailhouse was constructed in 1901, with wood siding and two steel jail cells purchased from the Pauley Jail Building Company of St. Louis, Missouri. But whatever foundation

Aaron Burr conspired to divide the U.S., create his own country

Always the consummate cowboy, Charlie Glass once stopped an impatient auto driver with his lariat.

Among members of the Comanche Nation, oral history passed from generation to generation tells that “Our people had horses before we ever met the Spanish,” said Jimmy Arterberry, a Comanche