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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
This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Major John Wesley Powell’s daring expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. But was he the first? Another story exists with...
DATE: Sept. 14, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In a column about the Southwest, why write about Canada? Because I just visited the Southwest – southwestern Alberta. We were there for one of History Colorado’s famous Tours & Treks and their...
DATE: Aug. 10, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Why is it that we remember and even glorify such Western American outlaws as Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy when other outlaws are long ago dead, buried and forgotten? One historical theory is...
DATE: July 13, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Why study sheep, sheepherders and carved aspen trees in Colorado? Because everywhere I go, sheep have been there first. From high alpine meadows in federally protected wilderness areas to sinuous...
DATE: June 8, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
As I walk the trail between cliff and river, I search again for the face. It’s 10 inches tall. The eyes and mouth are distinctly pecked, two antenna rise above the head. I almost walk past it, and...
DATE: May 11, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Sagamore Hill, New York, but his contributions to the West and to Colorado live on. Teddy was beloved by many Westerners, and he...
DATE: April 14, 2019 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
