Elvin R. Caldwell: City Council President, Activist, Community Leader
When: 1919 – 2004 Where: Denver, Colorado Why Important: First African-American City Council Member West of…
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“Father” John Lewis Dyer: The Snowshoe Itinerant
When: 1812-1901 Where: Central Colorado Mountains Why important: Beloved circuit-riding Methodist preacher Biography John Lewis…
Herndon Davis, Colorado Artist
You’re probably familiar with the Face on the Barroom Floor, the mysterious portrait of a…
John Charles Frémont: Senator, Governor, Presidential Candidate, and Explorer
When: 1813-1890 Where: Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains Why important: Explorer, Presidential Candidate, Civil…
The “Maverick” of Carpenter Ranch
Farrington “Ferry” Carpenter was a Harvard- and Princeton- educated rancher whose autobiography, Confessions of a…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Attorney General
The Attorney General of Colorado is an elected official tasked with “represent[ing] and defend[ing] the…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Biographies
Genealogists and others looking for biographical information on Coloradans from earlier than 1927 should view…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Parshall Flume
Water is a precious resource in Colorado, so its use and conservation have been extensively…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s First Ladies
March is Women’s History Month, an appropriate time to recognize the First Ladies of our…
Time Machine Tuesday: Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre
Tomorrow, November 29, is the 153rd anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. That morning, approximately 675…
Time Machine Tuesday: Researching Past Colorado Legislators
Our library receives many questions about finding biographical information on state legislators from the past. Many…
Colorado Governors: Samuel Elbert
Colorado’s highest mountain bears the name of Samuel H. Elbert, territorial governor of Colorado from…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you…
Time Machine Tuesday: Rydberg's Flora
One of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America’s greatest botanists extensively studied the flora of Colorado,…
Time Machine Tuesday: Trappers, Traders and Mountain Men
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, French, English, and American fur trappers came…
Colorado Governors: Edward McCook
Edward Moody McCook served two non-consecutive terms as territorial governor. Originally from Ohio, McCook had…
The Architecture of Jacques Benedict
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Victorian architectural styles gave way to newer…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado's Count and Countess
Discoveries of gold in 1858 drew many to what would eventually become Colorado, and in…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Moffat Tunnel
Getting trains through the Rocky Mountains has always been a challenge — steep grades, rocky…
Colorado Governors: Alexander Cameron Hunt
Colorado’s fourth territorial governor, Republican Alexander Hunt, was appointed to lead the territory on April…