By RICH GRANT “Wild Bill” Hickock was such a romantic figure, it is hard to believe he really existed. Of course, through dime novels, movies, HBO, television shows and merchandising for 155 years, his image has become a caricature of the real thing. But look back at what contemporaries wrote about him, and you can understand why he became so
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If you are planning to go skiing in Aspen this winter, you better have proof of a negative covid-19 test before you make your reservations. Starting Monday, Dec. 14, Pitkin Country, Colorado — home to Aspen’s four world-renowned ski areas, Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass — will require all visitors to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Notorios convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has registered an appeal against his life sentence handed down last year by a U.S court for the trafficking of tons of narcotics into the United States over a 25-year period. The appeal was presented by Guzmán’s chief lawyer Marc Fernich late Friday, Sept. 3,
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By RICH GRANT THE COLORFUL FALL COLORS OF COLORADO There are more than 2 million acres of aspen trees in Colorado — one billion trees that if placed together would cover Rhode Island and Delaware. Rocky Mountain aspen leaves don’t just turn color in the fall, they positively glow a bright luminescent yellow gold, almost as if they had
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By RICH GRANT If you happen to be looking for a pretty ocean beach where you could get some fresh clams, octopus and squid, you might try Dinosaur Ridge, just outside of Golden, Colorado. Of course, you would be 100 million years too late. Back then, this site was a pretty shoreline of an inland sea that stretched to the
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By RICH GRANT The Battle for the Bloody Bozeman Trail In 1866, gold was discovered in Montana, and it was almost a replica of what had happened in Colorado. The main trails west bypassed and went far south of Montana, so a scout named John Bozeman laid out a new diagonal trail northwest across Wyoming for the dozens of wagon
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By RICH GRANT Captain Tenedor Ten Eyck surveyed the frozen Wyoming landscape and was worried. Where was Fetterman? Captain Ten Eyck, on this very biting and cold day of Dec. 21, 1866, was in command of a relief force sent out from Fort Philip Kearney. He had 75 infantry troops and civilian volunteers and their mission was to find Captain
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By RICH GRANT You can say one thing about the Rail Runner Express: No other train sounds like it. This unusual 96-mile-long railroad runs only between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trains are sleek-looking silver diesel engines with comfortable double-decker cars. There is a bright red roadrunner (New Mexico’s state bird) painted on the side and the cars
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By RICH GRANT There is no sound quite like a steam whistle echoing off a mountain, as plumes of black smoke rise in the air, the steel wheels screech around a bend, and ahead is the chug, chug, chug of a massive steam locomotive straining up a four percent grade. Riding outdoors in a gondola car with the big skies
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By RICH GRANT The little resort village of Estes Park sits at the edge of Colorado’s No. 1 attraction – Rocky Mountain National Park – nestled in one of the world’s most beautiful locations. Surrounded by snowcapped peaks with vistas in every direction, this small town has been attracting visitors for more than 150 years. World famous artists, best-selling novelists,
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