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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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by Norman L. Kincaide, Ph.D. Why the Forest Service interest in revising the management plan for the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands (CCNG) with 108,000 and 440,000 acres, respectively? These grasslands are supposedly threatened with urbanization, agricultural development, and overgrazing, that may compromise cultural sites and stress Species of Conservation Concern (SCC). The CCNG Draft…
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The story of Old Boston, Colorado, is one of ambition, boom, and eventual bust, encapsulated in one of the few surviving photographs of the town. This image, showcasing the main street in its heyday, serves as a testament to a once-thriving settlement that briefly became a beacon of hope during the late 19th-century land rush.…
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I probably did a better job of keeping everyone up to date on the progress of the Old Boston book in 2018 and I thought the Big Bill Thompson book would come together sooner, but I will say it is close. We have merged the Plainsman Herald website and the Baca County History web sites.…
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Many have asked, so here is the background on how the Old Boston story came about in book form. It is a bit lengthy, but again I get asked this a lot so I wrote this down and it will probably become a blog post. My cousin farms and ranches in the area near where…
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Sylvester Fowler’s firsthand account, “A Night in Trail City,” published in the Westmoreland Recorder in 1887, vividly depicts the lawless and debauched atmosphere of a boomtown fueled by the Texas cattle trade. The excerpt from Letters From Colorado: 1880-1889 by Kent Brooks provides context, explaining that Fowler’s letter is one of many personal accounts from…
