Archive for 2007

5:30 PM

My Writing Space

This week I'm getting ready to go to the Women Writing The West conference in Colorado Springs next weekend. I've belonged to this g...

This is Cameron Mountain, northeast of Salida. Cameron Mountain stood at the center of the cattle range of Thomas Cameron. Ernest Christison...

Last Friday, John and I drove to Salida, then drove up northeast on County Road 175 or Ute Creek Trail. Ute Creek Trail was the road the set...

Dr. Wendell Hutchinson, Connie, John and Gayle (Salida 1981) Have you ever had a story that stayed with you? For years? I took a Colorado h...

I've mentioned Ernest Christison several times, but I've not really told his story. Ernest was Wilburn and Elizabeth's second so...

My motto in genealogical research is “You never know.” You never know what is around the next corner, the next web page, the next record you...

Yesterday I returned to the Colorado State Archives . Once again I asked for the file on the Elijah Gibbs trial in Denver. Once again the cl...

Cache Creek 7:38 PM

I found a couple of letters in the Rocky Mountain News that describe the mining at Cache Creek or "Cash Creek" in 1862. The writer...