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The Railroad is Our First Corporate Sponsor
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (DS&NG) is our first corporate sponsor, supporting the innovative Passport to Southwest Colorado. Fourth-grade teachers throughout our eight-county region are creating the passport project to introduce students to the places, sites, and events that reflect our Southwest culture and heritage.
Colorado and President Johnson (Andrew, that is)
Colorado statehood could have been nearly a decade earlier but President Andrew Johnson had reservations (and motives)
Colorado Leads the States in Women’s Suffrage
Well before the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Centennial State was the first, through election, to enable women to vote. All the voters that day were men, most of whom knew what was good for them.
Cowboy, the best horse…
Bayfield lays claim to one of the foundation sires for the Quarter Horse breed, the horse that won the West.