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Peoples History of the Grand Valley

Peoples History of the Grand Valley

The People of the Grand Valley's Struggles, Victories, and Movements for Change.

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Anti-War / December 1, 2022

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…

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Anti-War / May 11, 2022

Dreamers, Revolutionaries, and Humanitarians: a progressive history of the Grand Valley 1885-today.

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Anti-War / December 20, 2021

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…

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Labor Movement / April 18, 2021

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,…

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Labor Movement / April 4, 2021

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…

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