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CREEDE • It’s a place somewhere between Colorado’s majestic San Juan Mountains and magical San Luis Valley. A place overlooked by rugged, granite walls that tell tall tales of the

Men and materials had to be hauled in the mining era, just as today; but instead of gas or diesel, it was moved with horses and mules. Instead of profiting from tourists, the cash came...

The man known as the poet laureate of the Rockies found inspiration in a nook of southwest Colorado.

After around 1915, miners debated which technology they favored to light their work underground, a carbide lamp or a battery light. Both were superior to candles and oil lamps that would blow out when air circulated too quickly.