Elvin R. Caldwell: City Council President, Activist, Community Leader
When: 1919 – 2004 Where: Denver, Colorado Why Important: First African-American City Council Member West of…
When: 1919 – 2004 Where: Denver, Colorado Why Important: First African-American City Council Member West of…
When: 1812-1901 Where: Central Colorado Mountains Why important: Beloved circuit-riding Methodist preacher Biography John Lewis…
You’re probably familiar with the Face on the Barroom Floor, the mysterious portrait of a…
When: 1813-1890 Where: Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains Why important: Explorer, Presidential Candidate, Civil…
Farrington “Ferry” Carpenter was a Harvard- and Princeton- educated rancher whose autobiography, Confessions of a…
A.J. Sampson, Colorado’s first state Attorney General. The Attorney General of Colorado is an elected…
Genealogists and others looking for biographical information on Coloradans from earlier than 1927 should view…
Water is a precious resource in Colorado, so its use and conservation have been extensively…
March is Women’s History Month, an appropriate time to recognize the First Ladies of our…
Tomorrow, November 29, is the 153rd anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. That morning, approximately…
Our library receives many questions about finding biographical information on state legislators from the past. …
Colorado’s highest mountain bears the name of Samuel H. Elbert, territorial governor of Colorado from…
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you…
One of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America’s greatest botanists extensively studied the flora of Colorado,…
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, French, English, and American fur trappers came…
Edward Moody McCook served two non-consecutive terms as territorial governor. Originally from Ohio, McCook had…
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Victorian architectural styles gave way to newer…
Discoveries of gold in 1858 drew many to what would eventually become Colorado, and in…
Getting trains through the Rocky Mountains has always been a challenge — steep grades, rocky…
Colorado’s fourth territorial governor, Republican Alexander Hunt, was appointed to lead the territory on April…