Peoples History of the Grand Valley
Why should all the men have all the fun? Bessie Belvins, better known around the west as “Silver Tip Bess” certainly didn’t think…
Grand Junction’s Socialist era is often portrayed as an electoral fluke that elected socialist Mayor Thomas Todd to office in 1909. But it…
The story of the West is far more pigmented and more feminine than Hollywood or the ‘guns and outlaws’ histories will every portray.…
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in December of 1941, led directly to one of the darkest moments in American history,…
“That was so f@%$ing Scooby-Doo,” I said to no one in particular. I had just gotten off the phone with a local woman…
Hobos, bindle-stiffs, tramps, coxeyites, transients, yeggs, vagrants, bums, scatterlings, wobblies, migrants laborers, vagabonds, roofless mother f#8%rs, okies and/or the un-housed have always been…
In early 2001, months before 9/11, two young men living in Grand Junction signed up to serve their county, and “get out of…
This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…
Derek Brunner was just 31 years old, when he died of AIDS, in December of 1990. He may have been the first Grand…
In or around the 1st of November 1898, two Papago boys escaped from the Teller Institute (Indian Boarding School) here in Grand Junction.…