Bob Silbernagel

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

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

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

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

BOB SILBERNAGEL

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

On Monday, January 8, 1923, area residents could pay 40 cents apiece (10 cents for children) to watch Mary Pickford in the film, “Tess of the Storm Country,” at Grand

In 1912, 75 Ute Indians rode into Manitou Springs to dedicate and bless the Ute Trail and Ute Pass, with the support of white citizens of the town. The trail