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Although history books usually begin with the 19th-century gold rush to the central Rockies, the real cradle of Colorado is here, on the wind-swept plains of the Southeast. It was here, in the 1540s, that the first gold-seekers arrived - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his band of conquistadores. It was here, in 1806, that Colorado received its first emissaries from the United States - the expedition led by Zebulon Pike. And it was here, in 1833, that the first American settlement was raised - Bent’s Old Fort. __The Arkansas River represents a direct line into the past. The Santa Fe Trail ran right alongside it, bringing traders and, later, armies into one of the country’s last Native American strongholds. For legendary frontiersmen such as Kit Carson and John C. Fremont, the Arkansas provided a gateway to the Rockies. Homesteaders traveled upstream in their wake, moving in tandem with the railroad crews and building towns - Lamar, La Junta and Rocky Ford - that still dot the banks of the river. The two largest cities of Southeast Colorado, Trinidad and Pueblo, made their wealth on ranching, coal mining and commerce. __Today the region possesses the dignity that comes with age. There’s no heritage of hurry here, no rush to riches at the foundation of the culture. Time is as plentiful as the prairie shortgrass. Visitors who overlook this quiet corner of the state are missing out on something special. In the vastness of its landscapes and the bottomless depth of its roots, Southeast Colorado conveys a sense of the eternal.
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Peyton woman named El Paso County Fair queen
Mar 11, 2010 4:31 am
Brenna Harfert, a 19-year-old Peyton resident, has been crowned the 2010 El Paso County Fair Queen. A 2009 graduate of Peyton High School, Harfert is currently a student at Colorado State University i...
SIDE STREETS: It's sink or swim time for Friends of Aquatics' effort to rescue city pools
Mar 10, 2010 6:46 pm
Friends of Aquatics has been keeping swimmers afloat for years. Now it's trying to throw a lifeline to the pools, too. The Colorado Springs nonprofit pays for poor kids to learn to swim and subsidizes...
City Council sees a flurry of activity
Mar 10, 2010 6:16 pm
Colorado Springs City Hall was a whirlwind of activity Tuesday. Among the highlights: The city clerk called a special meeting of the liquor board, which will decide Wednesday whether to suspend the l...
Utilities speeds up South Slope access
Mar 10, 2010 6:15 pm
After more than a decade of planning and talking, Colorado Springs Utilities will begin building trails this year in the South Slope watershed of Pikes Peak. Bowing to public pressure, Utilities offic...
Homeless get place to stash stuff as no-camping enforcement looms
Mar 10, 2010 2:46 pm
Bill Lawson threw open the doors to a large storage space on Tuesday that he hopes will open opportunities to the citys homeless campers as they leave their tents for sturdier structures. That migrati...
Woman was shot to death, police say
Mar 10, 2010 5:01 am
Colorado Springs police said the owner of a central Colorado Springs tailor shop was shot to death Monday afternoon. The victim was identified as 56-year-old Yong Glenn. A customer of Yongs Tailor Sho...
Local Democrats hire director, lose chairman
Mar 10, 2010 1:30 am
The El Paso County Democratic Party is looking for a new chairman. Jason DeGroot resigned the top job last month and party leaders will meet Saturday to pick his successor. That new chairman will need...
Mar 10, 2010 1:01 am
The city of Colorado Springs may have turned off street lights, yanked the garbage cans out of parks and laid off hundreds of workers. But the folks over at Colorado Springs Utilities , the electric-g...
Springs teen is state spelling champion
Mar 9, 2010 11:31 pm
A Colorado Springs eighth-grader became the state spelling champion on Saturday, earning himself a free trip to compete in May at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Brian King, a stu...
PPCC degree goes where the wild things are
Mar 9, 2010 11:01 pm
A new two-year-degree program at Pikes Peak Community College has a classroom as big as Colorado and then some. It stretches from Rocky Mountain National Park to the deserts of the southwest, and it ...
