Mill Tailings and the man who cleaned up Grand Junction
One of many western myths, has a lone man of action and integrity standing tall to clean up the town. This is one…
Month: April 2021
GJ Police Killings: The First 100 years
Grand Junction was just a couple years old when, in 1883, Town Marshal Tim Crowley shot and killed George Lewis, an African-American who…
Populism’s Poet
Jacob Huff was born 1853, in Pennsylvania. A populist, writer, poet, and satirist; Huff called the Grand Valley home for just four years,…
Carl Gleeser: Grand Junction’s First Radical
Before Grand Junction was even a town, a radical and organizer called the Grand Valley home. Meet Carl Gleeser, anarchist, labor organizer, publisher,…
Marijuana and the Grand Valley
Tomorrow residents of Grand Junction have a chance of reversing over a century of wrong-headed and racist marijuana laws, locally. It was 10…
Grand Junction and the Hobo Coxeyite Armies of 1894
June 17th of 1894, Englishman, Fredrick Denning Smith arrived in Grand Junction ahead of his “army” of hobos and unemployed workers. “General” Smith’s…