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Showing posts with label Colorado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colorado. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Unearthing Ancient Fossils: A Reflection on the Giants in My Life

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By Steven Wade Veatch I remember a scorching summer afternoon in 1992, when, with my new wife Shelly and mother-in-law Karen, I walked on a ...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Bolts of Tragedy: A Teen's Fatal Encounter in the Cripple Creek Mining District

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  By Steven Wade Veatch               On a fateful Wednesday, July 15, 1914, 13-year-old John F. Bowen visited his friends at the Kilpat...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

A Communion of Discovery

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Dedicated to Estella Leopold, conservationist Melting ice washed gravels down, burying the mammoth—hiding it through the ages. And I found...
Monday, November 1, 2021

The Foster Ranch: An Early Colorado Springs Homestead

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By  Steven Wade Veatch                    Marcus Aurelius Foster (1834-1923) made his way from New Ipswich, New Hampshire, to the Colorado T...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Pieplant: A Taylor Park Mining Camp

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 By Steven W. Veatch The story of the Pieplant mining camp, in Taylor Park, begins with the Ute people who hunted and roamed this land of de...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Uptop: A Winter Poem

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By Steven Wade Veatch A winter wind blows swirling flakes of snow that blankets the quiet town of Uptop.  Light from a coal-oil lamp cas...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining District: A Sense of Place

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By Steven Wade Veatch No one really stays the same in life; our experiences shape us. Places change us. For me, a place, the Cripple ...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

The Crystal Peak Gem Company

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Steven Wade Veatch and Andy Weinzapfel Just north of the small town of Florissant, Colorado is a prominent topographic featu...