Original article can be found at Colorado Daily
Originally published on September 28,2010
By Vanessa Miller
After being honored by the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West in the morning and speaking over lunch for the Colorado Conservation Voters, media mogul Ted Turner spent Tuesday night mingling with dignitaries at his new Pearl Street restaurant. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at New West Development
Originally published on September 29,2010
By Allen Best, Guest Writer
You can see how Ted Turner might be a handful. Patty Limerick, the noted historian of the American West, interviewed him on Tuesday morning, and for awhile it was uncertain whether she would get a question in edgewise. Limerick, who can parse and parry with the best of them, rarely has that problem. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at the Headwaters news website
Originally published on March 11,2010
By Steve Woodruff
After a sensational day of fishing for Yellowstone cutthroats back in the 1930s, my grandfather fought heroically outside a bar in Gardiner, Mont., with a man who insisted nothing but a rainbow trout was worth catching. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at the Washingtonpost website.
Originally published on February 28,2010
By Ken Ringle
Who doesn’t love the rainbow trout?
Whether sauced in butter, sketched in pastel or stripping line from a flyrod in a Montana stream, the game little fish with the freckled skin and the rosy side-stripes has always been a poster child for Unspoiled America. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover to Jimmy Carter have angled for it with something akin to reverence. Citizen conservationists and family campers have followed suit.
Original article can be found at The Chronicle Review site
Originally published on February 28, 2010
By Peter Schmidt
Behold the regal rainbow trout, dappled denizen of deep lake and rushing river, fierce hunter of fish and fly—and prize of pork-barrel politics, invigorator of men, eradicator of native species, payload of numerous bombing missions.
Original article can be found at the colorado.edu news site
Originally published on February 10, 2010
By Staff
University of Colorado at Boulder history Professor Patty Limerick will bring history alive when she interviews nationally recognized actor Clay Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt in Boulder and Denver on Feb. 24 and 25.
Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_14348854#axzz0ftv8oGFE
Originally published on February 6, 2010
By Sarah Horn
More than a century ago, America’s government leaders wanted to encourage men to get back in touch with their primal abilities because they thought industrialization had diminished their masculinity, according to a new book written by a University of Colorado professor. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_13398640
Originally published on September 22, 2009
By Scott Franz
Boulder’s 150-year anniversary continues as representatives of the city’s “kindred cities” meet at the University of Colorado on Wednesday night to discuss mutual challenges they share and how they plan to face them.
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Original article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-lewis/four-officials-from-kindr_b_293599.html
Originally published on September 21, 2009
By Jerry Lewis
BOULDER — Four prominent leaders from Aspen, Colo., Madison, Wis., Portland, Ore. and Sante Fe, N.M. will share their experiences and thoughts in an evening forum, Wednesday, Sept. 23, titled “Separated at Birth: Insights from Kindred Communities.” (Read on …)
Original article can be found at http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_president_packs_harufs_plainsong_and_elmer_kelton_dies_at_83/C39/L39/
Originally published on August 26, 2009
By Jenny Shank
White House Press Secretary Bill Burton announced a list of five books that President Obama is bringing on his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Among them is Kent Haruf‘s Plainsong. Now, during last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jeff Lee of the Rocky Mountain Land Library asked a bunch of notable Western writers and…me to contribute a “reading list for the President-Elect: A Western States Primer for the Next Administration.” The Tattered Cover featured many of these suggestions in a display. One of the books on my list was Plainsong. (Rick Bass and Laura Pritchett also assigned Plainsong for presidential reading.) (Read on …)