Celebrating the Colorful History of Baca County Colorado
Here are a few clippings about the citizens "of half a dozen Colorado villages, Boston, Springfield, Vilas, Minneapolis, and Carriso and also Richfield in Kansas, are uniting to make an…
A part of the history of Old Boston, Colorado which might go unnoticed is the attempt by the town founders to build a civil and cultured existence in an environment…
I have mentioned several times the influence Old Boston, Colorado likely had on the early development of the western movie genre because of the time Al Jennings and the Jennings…
The “Noted Burying Ground” or Boston, Colorado Cemetery shown in the Dec 2018 photo below is all that is left of what was Boston, Colorado of the Southeast Colorado plains.…
Many of you are familiar with Judge JDF Jennings who was Vice President of the Boston or Atlantis (Colorado) Town Company from my book “Old Boston: As Wild As They…
In “Old Boston: As Wild As They Come” we tell the story of many of the characters of the that short-lived (1886-1889) and wild Colorado Boomtown, Boston, Colorado. The key resource…
A couple years ago I found a copy of Sam Konkel's Southeast Colorado Stagecoach map in terrible condition. The quality was so poor it was basically useless and it led me…
It feels great to find interesting tidbits in old newspapers—for me it has been part of researching my book, for others, it may be finding an obituary, marriage announcement, or…
Greetings from an unseasonably mild but windy Casper Wyoming. I have a little bit of reflection and a couple of messages related to a local history blog, social media, and…
Sometimes it is hard to understand old forgotten towns. Especially since we don't always know where they are located in relationship to present day landmarks and towns. The map in…
