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The storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday is easily misunderstood. Shaken by the ordeal, members of the US Congress have issued statements explaining that the US is a nation of laws, not mobs. The implication is that the disruption incited by US President Donald Trump is something new. It is not. The US has a long history of mob violence stoked by white politicians in the service of rich white Americans. What was unusual this time is that the white mob turned on the white politicians, rather ...

COVE — Northeast Oregon pioneer Anderson C. Smith was a man of short stature whose life story gave rise to tall tales. It was said Smith once killed a 900-pound grizzly with a single shot near Minam and was such an accurate marksman he could knock an eye out of a grouse with a round from his Henry rifle. “He was the man of the mountains and the Kit Carson of the Pacific Coast,” the Mountain Sentinel, an old Union County newspaper, reported in its July 6, 1872, edition. On a less...

Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer Drew Romano, 25, from Boulder erupts in cheers inside the Bernie Sanders Colorado Headquarters as Sanders is reported to have won the Colorado Democratic primary. Voters take to the polls and ballots are counted during the Super Tuesday primary on March 3, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Colorado shares a Super Tuesday primary with 14 other states and territories. Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Gazette Ernest Luning, ...

It was the year superlatives fell short. From a jam-packed January that opened in the midst of a presidential primary and plunged head-long into only the third impeachment trial in the nations history, to February and its leap day, which couldnt explain why it felt like the month that would never end, until March arrived and time slowed to a glacial crawl — from the start, 2020 was all about jerking from one extreme to the next. "We’ve had a pandemic with the flu in 1918; we’ve h...

What It Was Really Like Being A Mountain Man In The 1800s Buyenlarge/Getty Images By Jan MacKell Collins/Dec. 28, 2020 1:12 am EDT/Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 11:49 pm EDT Tough. Resilient. Determined. Adventurous. These are just some of the words used to describe the mountain men (also commonly referred to as fur trappers) who rambled all over the Rocky Mountains — but also eastern parts of early America — as far back as the 1500s. By the early 1800s, says Legends of America,�...

Windy and really cold today and tonight! KOAA Weather and last updated 2020-12-23 08:47:32-05 Today’s Forecast: The two main impacts in the weather department today are the wind and the cold. We still have a High Wind Warning in effect for all of the eastern plains today through 5 pm. We could see widespread wind gusts ranging from 20 to 50 mph, but the strongest winds will likely stay in Lincoln, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Kit Carson Counties. The cold will be around all day with wind chills to...

Sisters writer launches history podcast Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:01 PM A new podcast is exploring frontier history across three centuries and several continents. Jim Cornelius, editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans,” recently launched The Frontier Partisans Podcast. “Podcasting is a medium I have come to love and I consume history shows like a trapper guzzling busthead whiskey at rendez...

Listen to this post RBC | Nominations are now being accepted for the Leopold Conservation Award® honoring agricultural landowners in Colorado who demonstrate outstanding stewardship and management of natural resources. Sand County Foundation and national sponsor American Farmland Trust present the Leopold Conservation Award to private landowners in 21 states for extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation. In Colorado, the $10,000 award is presented with the Colorado Cattlemen’s Asso...

Colorado Mountain College has 11 campuses across the state, including in Steamboat Springs where a new geodesic dome has been added to the campus. Colorado Mountain College also has a campus in Edwards. (Photo by John F. Russell) The Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative board approved 25 proposals that will provide more than $3.3 million in scholarships for Colorado students, including funds to Colorado Mountain College students. The money will match locally fundraised scholarship dollar...

The next time Taos citizens debate whether to change the name of Kit Carson Park, they should consider calling it Acequia Madre Park. There would be no Placita de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, or town of Don Fernando de Taos, without the Acequia Madre del Río Pueblo. There would be no park.  The Acequia Madre del Río Pueblo permitted growth that one day would threaten its very existence. Originally it conveyed only sobrante or surplus water rights to settlers of the 1796 Don Fernando...