Uptop: A Winter Poem

By Steven Wade Veatch The winter snow blankets the town of Uptop. A wind blows hard, swirling angry flakes of snow. Light from coal-oil lamp...

The Pulver Gulch Prospect: A Hidden Reserve of Metamorphic Minerals

As U.S. Highway 24 approaches Wilkerson Pass, Colorado, the 1.7 billion-year-old metamorphic rocks of the Puma Hills replace the younger Pik...