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20th Century & Beyond

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…

Madison Basch, February 1, 2019
Colorado's Beginnings

“Father” John Lewis Dyer: The Snowshoe Itinerant

When: 1812-1901 Where: Central Colorado Mountains Why important: Beloved circuit-riding Methodist preacher Biography John Lewis…

Madison Basch, January 4, 2019
Colorado State Publications Blog

Herndon Davis, Colorado Artist

You’re probably familiar with the Face on the Barroom Floor, the mysterious portrait of a…

Amy Zimmer, December 13, 2018
Colorado's Beginnings

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…

Madison Basch, December 7, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

The “Maverick” of Carpenter Ranch

Farrington “Ferry” Carpenter was a Harvard- and Princeton- educated rancher whose autobiography, Confessions of a…

Amy Zimmer, November 19, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Attorney General

The Attorney General of Colorado is an elected official tasked with “represent[ing] and defend[ing] the…

Amy Zimmer, August 14, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Biographies

Genealogists and others looking for biographical information on Coloradans from earlier than 1927 should view…

Amy Zimmer, July 31, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Parshall Flume

Water is a precious resource in Colorado, so its use and conservation have been extensively…

Amy Zimmer, March 27, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s First Ladies

March is Women’s History Month, an appropriate time to recognize the First Ladies of our…

Amy Zimmer, March 13, 2018
Colorado State Publications Blog

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…

Amy Zimmer, November 29, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Researching Past Colorado Legislators

Our library receives many questions about finding biographical information on state legislators from the past. Many…

Amy Zimmer, November 21, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Samuel Elbert

Colorado’s highest mountain bears the name of Samuel H. Elbert, territorial governor of Colorado from…

Amy Zimmer, October 26, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates

Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate?  It depends on who you…

Amy Zimmer, October 24, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Rydberg's Flora

One of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America’s greatest botanists extensively studied the flora of Colorado,…

Amy Zimmer, September 26, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Trappers, Traders and Mountain Men

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, French, English, and American fur trappers came…

Amy Zimmer, September 12, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Edward McCook

Edward Moody McCook served two non-consecutive terms as territorial governor.  Originally from Ohio, McCook had…

Amy Zimmer, August 3, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

The Architecture of Jacques Benedict

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Victorian architectural styles gave way to newer…

Amy Zimmer, July 13, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado's Count and Countess

Discoveries of gold in 1858 drew many to what would eventually become Colorado, and in…

Amy Zimmer, July 11, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Moffat Tunnel

Getting trains through the Rocky Mountains has always been a challenge — steep grades, rocky…

Amy Zimmer, June 13, 2017
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Alexander Cameron Hunt

Colorado’s fourth territorial governor, Republican Alexander Hunt, was appointed to lead the territory on April…

Amy Zimmer, June 2, 2017
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