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By Ed Quillen
Denver Post Columnist

If you define history as a written record of the past, then it’s easy to be precise about when history began in central Colorado: exactly 228 years ago, when Juan Bautista de Anza, governor and military commander of the Spanish province of New Mexico, led an army north from Santa Fe.In August 1779, Anza took a roundabout course to defeat the Jupe Comanche and especially their chief, Cuerno Verde. The warrior’s name is “Green Horn” in English, and he got it by wearing a head-dress with a buffalo horn painted green. Greenhorn Mountain, the highest of the Wet Mountains southwest of Pueblo at 12,346 feet, commemorates him, rather than some “green-horn tenderfoot” or the like. (Read on …)

Aug. 16, 2007

The effects of global energy use on the climate and the impact climate change will have on future generations are among the topics to be discussed during an Aug. 30 symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“The Global Energy Crisis: Climate Change, Mitigation and Adaptation,” will be presented in the University Memorial Center, room 235, at 6 p.m. The event is the 12th annual CU-Boulder Graduate School symposium, traditionally held on the first Thursday of the new fall semester. (Read on …)