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National Day of the Cowboy

Ernest Christison (Drawing by Katy Kinder from a photograph) Today, July 26, is National Day of the Cowboy. I thought it an appropriate time...

(poster by fM) Prospecting is in my Christison blood, but there is another talent that runs through the Christison family – musical ability...

I went to Buena Vista and Salida on Wednesday and Thursday for a research trip and Ann Parker's book signing. My friend, Bev McGuire, jo...

On Thursday morning I went to the Chaffee County Clerk's office and started looking through the Grantee/Grantor indexes. About thirty mi...

Black Mountain is northeast of Salida in the southern part of South Park. The IM or Mulock Ranch was on the west side of Black Mountain (thi...

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...

Here’s the short version of the Lake County War: George Harrington was shot in the back when he went out to extinguish a fire in an outbuild...

In the summer of 2004, I drove our pickup truck west, pulling my family’s 4-wheelers and motorcycles. Winding alongside the Arkansas River o...