Before Colorado was named after the region’s muddy, red-tinted Rio Colorado, it was known as a fabled land in the American Southwest. Without a map or successful expeditions to understand its studded ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and ...

See the drawings and maps of early Colorado settlers at the CU Boulder Earth Sciences & Map Library in the Benson Building. The University Libraries’ exhibit, “A Century of Views of Colorado,” will be ...