Gulliford’s Travels – The Journal

Helper’s new riches: Utah railroad, coal mining town reinvents itself as artistic haven

Soiled doves are visible from hotel room windows in Helper, Utah, but now they are just mannequins. This gritty coal mining and railroad boomtown has embraced its diverse ethnic past. A new ...

DATE: Dec 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Pendleton blankets inspired by Navajo designs benefit Center of Southwest Studies

Babies get wrapped in Pendleton trade blankets. At Native American ceremonies and giveaways, the gift of choice is usually Pendleton blankets. Pendleton blankets are given to returning veter...

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

The case of the stolen stove doors: Couple gives mining history to San Juan Historical Society

Couple give mining history to San Juan Historical Society

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Through the Grand Canyon before Major Powell?

This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Major John Wesley Powell’s daring expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. But was he the first? Another story exists with...

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

Canadian Rockies by rail

History Colorado explores the West, up north

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

When a killer wore a deputy’s badge in Telluride

When a killer wore a deputy’s badge and a golden smile

DATE: Jul 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

On the woolly trail

Sheep stories in the West run from the high country into canyons

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

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