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When I learned that my friend Peter Pino had passed on from complications of coronavirus I was devastated. I took a long walk at twilight remembering Peter’s quiet way of speaking and his...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Most everyone has been to the Four Corners Monument with its outdoor concrete patio and granite-and-bronze circle. Tourists sprawl in contorted positions to get both hands and both feet in each of...
DATE: Aug. 8, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In the 1890s, cowboy archaeologists dug caves in remote sections of Utah’s Bears Ears. They created Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan artifact collections that have been hidden away for over a...
DATE: July 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Because of the coronavirus, we are now asked to wear masks while working and shopping downtown. Westerners used to wear masks a century ago, so the fashion has come back around. Butch Cassidy and...
DATE: June 13, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
How do you write a travel column when you cannot travel? How do you write with historical perspective when you are in the middle of an historical moment? Now more than ever, we need history and...
DATE: May 9, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Author’s note: Even with a viral pandemic and a downturn in the economy, it is important to plan for the future. Fort Lewis College is doing just that. If Durangoans can’t spend time outdoors right...
DATE: April 11, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
The American West has always had extraordinary women, but few of them have stopped to pick the flowers. For Women’s History Month, it is important to remember Alice Eastwood. This Canadian-born,...
DATE: March 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Whenever I hike in Bears Ears National Monument, I think about how it almost became an Native American reservation. Over a century ago, Durango businessmen actively campaigned to remove the...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
For years, we’ve learned that ancestral Puebloans depended upon corn, beans and squash, nicknamed The Three Sisters, for sustenance. Well, move over sisters. Little brother spud is about to take...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Soiled doves are visible from hotel room windows in Helper, Utah, but now they are just mannequins. This gritty coal mining and railroad boomtown has embraced its diverse ethnic past. A new...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Babies get wrapped in Pendleton trade blankets. At Native American ceremonies and giveaways, the gift of choice is usually Pendleton blankets. Pendleton blankets are given to returning veterans who...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
As a Southwest tour leader and former museum director, occasionally after a few beers, folks tell me what they took from public land. Then I help them return items. Such is the case with stolen...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
