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Dear Plainsman Readers, As we headed into 2025, we promised one more year of printing the Plainsman Herald. Because of your continued demand and loyalty, we adjusted rates, made changes, and found a way to keep the paper in print throughout the year. The year 2025 brought challenges both exciting and exhausting. Putting together a…
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A recent Facebook post by Steve Doner shared a brief Springfield Herald clipping (below) dated January 12, 1900, documenting trapping activity along the river in southeastern Colorado. That short notice, combined with a comment recalling wolf trapping by Kent Homsher’s grandfather, prompted a return to the archives and to earlier research I conducted several years…
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AI and the War on Memory Be very careful what you swallow; we are living in the age of AI. I’ve spent years preserving local history and working in IT and cybersecurity, and I never expected those two worlds to collide. But guess what—they have. I didn’t respond to this FAKE HISTORY topic as quickly…
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A recent Facebook post by Steve Doner shared a brief Springfield Herald clipping (below) dated January 12, 1900, documenting trapping activity along the river in southeastern Colorado. That short notice, combined with a comment recalling wolf trapping by Kent Homsher’s grandfather, prompted a return to the archives and to earlier research I conducted several years…
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In 2014 I gave a talk at the Baca County Museum about a topic I’d heard about my whole life— broomcorn. Ironic, I suppose, that I would give a talk on this topic. I don’t really remember broomcorn and didn’t know much about it. What I knew while giving the talk is that I knew…
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Baca County History Reprint—Project Update If you’ve ever turned a page and seen a face hidden behind scanner streaks, you know why this matters. As part of the reprint, we’ve been repairing photographs that didn’t survive the first round of digitizing—images with horizontal lines, blotchy blacks, and other scan glitches that obscured the very people…
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In January 1939, Pritchett, Colorado residents, Frank and Theresa Mauler had saved $500 and headed out of the Dust Bowl for the Sudetenland. Wire services made them famous; world events stopped the trip. Baca County’s Dust Bowl years were never as isolated as they felt. In January 1939, Frank and Theresa Mauler of Pritchett packed…
