East High
Denver’s first public high school began in a leaky one-room log cabin with thirteen students. By 1875 it officially became East Denver High School.
Colorado Postcards
With Colorado Postcards, we share brief insights into Colorado’s people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado.
Want to learn more about how Colorado Postcards are made? Creators Jon Pinnow and Gillian Coldsnow share the behind-the-scenes scoop in an interview with "Colorado Matters."
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Coffin Races
Thunder … rain … mud… A coffin breaks loose from the earth and tumbles into Manitou Springs.
Creede Repertory Theatre
The Creede Opera House was built to show movies to miners. But by the mid-’60s, as both mining and the town seemed tapped out, the opera house was boarded up.
Potatoes
Rufus Clark came to Colorado in the Gold Rush and found treasure in potatoes! “Potato King” Clark’s first wagonload sold for fifteen hundred dollars, a fortune in 1860.
Hiram Bennett
Before Colorado became a state, “law and order” came down to vigilantism, or a criminal code with three punishments: whipping, banishment, or death.
Berthoud Meteorite
October 2004, in a backyard near Berthoud. A couple step outside, hear a strange whooshing overhead and duck!
Naming the Colorado River
With a reddish tint from sediment carried over long miles, the mighty river that carved the Grand Canyon has been known by many names.
How pronghorns became so fast
On Colorado’s high plains and sagebrush steppe, the pronghorn moves like it’s running for its life. It’s the fastest land mammal in North America – 60 miles an hour.
