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Imagine being on a Colorado river in the heart of the summer and seeing no one else on the water for 32 miles, three days and two nights. I couldn’t believe it, but there we were in June on a...
DATE: Aug. 11, 2017 | UPDATED: 1 day 15 hours ago | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Across the Old West, what was once function is now fashion. Well-worn cowboy boots, spurs, saddles and Stetsons all have a new cachet as collectibles. One man’s junk is another man’s buffed up...
DATE: July 7, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Just west of Pagosa Springs is a small roadside park north of the highway. A bronze plaque set in granite says that more than a century ago Capt. Albert Pfeiffer stripped naked on behalf of Utes in...
DATE: June 10, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
One of the great mysteries of the Four Corners and the Southwest has been the 1934 disappearance of young artist Everett Ruess. He left the Utah village of Escalante alone, descended Davis Gulch...
DATE: May 13, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, 49-year-old Marie Ogden, a spiritualist and millennial Christian, moved to Dry Valley in San Juan County, Utah, to establish a religious colony and...
DATE: March 9, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
There are secrets in the San Luis Valley at the northern edge of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. One of the most interesting is the riddle of large stone snakes, who built them, when and why. I...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
As the snow piles up, I think of warm desert hikes. One of my favorites is a place in Colorado that looks and feels like Utah, except rocks are gone. Dominguez Creek has some of the oldest rocks...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2017 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In researching sheep and public lands grazing across Colorado, I have seen hundreds of carved aspen trees or arborglyphs. But only one artist of the aspens truly stands out. His work enlivened the...
DATE: Dec. 7, 2016 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Historians love birthdays and anniversaries, and southern New Mexico is celebrating a big one. It’s been a century since the Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Elephant Butte Dam under terms of...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2016 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In Georgetown, one of the oldest family-owned groceries operating in the Rocky Mountains began as Kneisel & Anderson in 1883. Original bins, shelving and tea canisters were installed in the new...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2016 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
“There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land,” wrote Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac. As one of the 20th century’s top...
DATE: Sept. 7, 2016 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
At the beginning of La Plata County history, even before Colorado statehood in 1876, the Hans Aspaas family was here. Over the next 140 years, family members moved across the county. One son...
DATE: Aug. 10, 2016 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
