Southern Rockies Nature Blog

You may already know that in 17th-century America, there was New England (Plymouth, etc.), and south of that was New Amsterdam (New York), ...

1870s cavalry trooper At the end of the Civil War, H. H. McConnell had served in a Union volunteer regiment (i.e., not Regular Army) — h...

It was nine years ago today that I made my first post on this blog, which actually began as a class blog for my nature-writing class. Th...

A living-history show on the British Broadcasting Corp. had participants living like 17th-century farmers. Sitting here in a cool house in a...

On Saturday, January 31, some of the class and I went to the National Park Service's recreation of Bent's Fort , an 1840s trading po...