Month: May 2022
Say Their Names!
Edna Ainsworth was just seventeen years old on August 13th of 1920. The young women had recently had a fight with her sweetheart.…
To Feed the Flies: The Anti-War Article Brought Down the Last Socialist Newspaper in the Grand Valley
This anti-WWI article in the local socialist paper was not popular by the new Super-Patriots at the time. The Sentinel, the Post-Master, and…
The Mayor; The Sentinel, and the Socialist Free Speech Fight of 1905
Walter Walker was not the first editor of the Daily Sentinel to wage an all-out war on the Socialist parties in early 20th…
George N. Falconer: A Highlander and his Mother
George Nichol Falconer was born 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother “was a daughter of the Clan Fraser, a group of Highland cattle…
Bar Fights, Jail Breaks, Hold-ups and Lots and Lots of Booze: “Silver Tip Bess” and “Irish Kate” Two Women Putting Wild Back into the Wild West
Why should all the men have all the fun? Bessie Belvins, better known around the west as “Silver Tip Bess” certainly didn’t think…
GJ Socialists and Irish Revolutionary James Connelly
Grand Junction’s Socialist era is often portrayed as an electoral fluke that elected socialist Mayor Thomas Todd to office in 1909. But it…
Elizabeth Taylor’s Legacy of Resilience
The story of the West is far more pigmented and more feminine than Hollywood or the ‘guns and outlaws’ histories will every portray.…