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The division's history is honored this week across Colorado ski areas, including the 50th annual Ski-In Daze with descendants of the 10th Mountain Division, current military members and the National Ski Patrol.
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For nearly thirty years, Railroad Car 211 transported people and goods to and from the remote mountain town of Lake City until the service stopped in 1933. Now, this important piece of regional transportation history is in Durango for restoration.
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The Denver Art Museum just opened the exhibit "The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama." Some of his works depict scenes of Amache, a World War II, Japanese-American incarceration camp in Colorado.
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After touring a museum and looking at the original barracks as part of a field trip to the World War II-era Japanese-American confinement site, Shuko Yoshikami shared how we can get to know one another and avoid mistakes of the past.
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The agency is planning the next phase of its state-funded research by consulting with members of the Native American community.
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Thousands of immigrant workers survived perilous conditions to build the transcontinental railway – a new monument wants to make sure we don’t forget about them.
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Buffalo Soldiers: reVision is a museum exhibit, book, and film that explores the complicated history of Buffalo Soldiers in the West. During American westward expansion, cavalries of Buffalo Soldiers participated in the removal of Indigenous peoples—a history artists are trying to reckon with.
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Jonathan P. Thompson of the Land Desk started looking into the history of ski areas in southwest Colorado. He was reminded of how much different developing a ski area was 60 years ago and also of how many little ski hills have been lost to history.
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The History Colorado exhibit "Buffalo Soldiers: reVision" seeks to reframe the story of the fort in the San Luis Valley. It includes the stories of Native people and the hundreds of formerly enslaved soldiers who served there in the late 1800s.
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Alan Prendergast writes about Denver District Attorney Philip Van Cise, who, in the 1920s, busted a crime ring that had been thriving in the city. He then turned his attention to an even greater threat—the Ku Klux Klan, which was in the process of taking over state government.
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For decades, Native Americans were sent off to boarding schools run by the federal government or religious groups. They were stripped of cultural ties and forced to assimilate into an American lifestyle.
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The 1911 flood was likely the largest on the Animas River over the last several hundred years or more. On the San Juan River near Bluff, researchers found no evidence of floods higher than the 1911 debris, indicating it “may represent the largest flood on the San Juan River for a much longer time period than 1880-2001.”