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  A Bear Attack in Estes Park

    Rocky Mountain Jim became famous for surviving the attack in 1871. See page...

  • Posted December 5, 2016
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  Famous Trail

  Unusual things happened in the 1800s along the Oregon Trail in Wyoming where pioneers...

  • Posted November 2, 2016
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  Estes Park Pioneer

    When young pioneer Abner Sprague built his first cabin in Estes Park in...

  • Posted November 2, 2016
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  Roof of the Rockies

  Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park is the best known scenic drive...

  • Posted October 1, 2016
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  The Mountain Men

    In the early 1800s, these men opened the Oregon Trail before most Americans...

  • Posted October 1, 2016
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  Famous Fort

  Fort Laramie was the most important outpost in the Old West, and several of...

  • Posted September 2, 2016
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  First Town in Our Area

  LaPorte north of Fort Collins was the gateway to the Rocky Mountains. See page...

  • Posted September 2, 2016
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  North Colorado Settler

  Pioneer Norman Fry settled in the Poudre Canyon northwest of Fort Collins in 1889...

  • Posted August 2, 2016
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  Town Named for a Pickle

  You can still buy vegetables made by the Kuner Empson company that made pickles...

  • Posted August 2, 2016
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  Butch Cassidy and Sundance

  Read about the mystery surrounding their lives and what Butch’s sister said happened. Page...

  • Posted July 2, 2016