Grand Valley’s Radical Poets—Making Resistance Sound Good—1894 to Club Q
Poetry and song have always been a part of resistance movements, verse seems to have the power to strengthen one’s resolve—to move people…
Category: Populist
Why “A People’s History of the Grand Valley”
This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…
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,…
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…