Like many towns in the US, Durango has made a business of nourishing the old West stereotypes, like the narrow gauge railroad, the Native American archeology, the old hard rock mines. Even those of us who live in Durango reinforce this history. But what if we told you that the parks and bike paths along the river were once thriving neighborhoods full of working-class Hispanic and Native American people?
Durango loves to promote its western frontier town image. It's easy to envision the bustling boardwalks in the late 1800s and imagine an incorporated...
As a prologue for a new season, Kirbie shares his land acknowledgement poem. Some notes: The 1890 census is a direct quote from the...
In the 1980's Janice Sanders was one of the few women who worked underground at the Sunnyside Mine, northeast of Silverton, Colorado. She enjoyed...
