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Hunters and artists: Glen Canyon rock art created by an ancient culture on the move

As I walk the trail between cliff and river, I search again for the face. It’s 10 inches tall. The eyes and mouth are distinctly pecked, two antenna rise above the head. I almost walk past i...

DATE: May 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Roosevelt in Colorado: Stained glass honors president who cherished the West

Stained glass honors president who cherished the West

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

Of the thousands of Native American rock-art panels in the Southwest, none are older than the Barrier Canyon pictographs found throughout the Colorado Plateau and concentrated along rivers, ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

A Mesa Verde plate: New tags would help support national park

Instead of fake news, how about real news? Instead of political posturing and name calling, how about a project to unite us as a region and a state? How about a Mesa Verde National Park lice...

DATE: Feb 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Trampling barriers: Mancos artist’s bronze sculpture honors fall of Berlin Wall

President George H.W. Bush helped reunite East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell, and a Mancos artist cast a 7-ton bronze sculpture commemorating the event. For 28 years,...

DATE: Jan 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

In Colorado, we have 12 streams named Wolf Creek, yet officially, we have no wolves in our state. A reprint of a rare book helps to explain the loss of Colorado’s wolves, and the ...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

The Woolly West: ‘Sheepscapes’ tell the story of sheepherding in Colorado

Everybody writes about cowboys. Nobody writes about sheepherders. Of the hundreds of books written about cowboys and cowboying in the American West, there are few volumes on shee...

DATE: Oct 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

For 15 years, my dog, Finn, was a hiking partner

By Andrew Gulliford Special to the Herald It has been enough time now that I can finally write this column without choking up. These are some of the hardest...

DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Lessons of the 416 Fire show how our approach to wildfires has evolved

The 416 Fire shows how our approach to wildfires has evolved

DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Olga Little: A mining-era legend of the La Platas

Ascending a mountain to honor the famous female burro-packer

DATE: Jul 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Mancos man’s father helped build Durango, brick by brick

Father’s Day is special for most of us, but for one son, it has a particularly deep meaning. When writers start a story, they never know what threads will weave together. I though...

DATE: Jun 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels