Barry Corbin’s West: from Urban Cowboy and Lonesome Dove to No Country for Old Men
Texas-born actor Barry Corbin built a long career playing ranchers, lawmen and generals. A look at his Western roles and…
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The people, past and present, who shape the Front Range, the Laramie Plains and the high valleys between them.
Louis L’Amour: the novelist who walked the ground he wrote about
Louis L'Amour wrote more than a hundred books, owned a ranch in Colorado and became the best-selling Western writer of…
Buffalo Bill Cody, showman, town founder and a Western legend he helped write
William F. Cody turned scouting and buffalo hunting into a world-famous Wild West show and founded the Wyoming town that…
Esther Hobart Morris and the women’s suffrage first in Wyoming
In 1870 Esther Morris became the first woman in the United States to serve as a justice of the peace,…
Jim Bridger knew the Rocky Mountain West before there were maps of it
Fur trapper, trader and Army guide Jim Bridger spent decades in the Rockies and built Fort Bridger, a key stop…
Chief Washakie and the founding of the Wind River Reservation
Eastern Shoshone leader Washakie negotiated the 1868 treaty that created the Wind River Reservation and was buried with full military…
Florence Sabin’s second career rebuilt Colorado’s public health laws
Born in Central City, Florence Sabin became a pioneering medical researcher, then came home to Colorado and pushed through major…
Dalton Trumbo, the Grand Junction kid who broke the Hollywood blacklist
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo grew up in Grand Junction, went to prison as one of the Hollywood Ten and won two…
Chief Ouray and the Ute fight to hold Colorado land
Ouray, a Ute leader who spoke several languages, negotiated with the federal government as settlers pushed into western Colorado.
Margaret Brown was more than the “unsinkable” Titanic survivor
Margaret Tobin Brown came to Leadville poor, became rich through a gold strike and spent her life on causes from…