Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 1876 illustration shows the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes at the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati. Anxieties ...

Its first university was founded in 1864, three years after the Colorado Territory — with largely the same boundaries as today’s state — was formed. And its gold rush began in 1858, while what would ...

Colorado’s path to becoming a state was not easy, it took 17 long years, but thanks to determination and tenacity on Aug. 1, 1876 it joined the United States of America. The path to becoming the 38th ...

Before galleries, restaurants and bars lined Colorado Avenue in Old Colorado City, gold seekers trawled the streets in search of saloons and bordellos. Known as Colorado City in the late 1800s, the ...

In the years leading up to Colorado statehood, nearly all of the territory’s western half still belonged to the Ute people, who had inhabited the northern Colorado Plateau for centuries. An 1868 ...

Mark Twain in July 1861 traveled through the northeast corner of what was then Colorado Territory, stopping briefly at a place called Overland City. It’s now called Julesburg. It lies along the South ...

The Kansas Territory stretched all the way west to the Continental Divide in Colorado's Rocky Mountains when federal lawmakers created it in 1854. But Kansas gave up roughly half of that land when it ...

In 1975, a group of neighbors gathered together to celebrate the history of Old Colorado City. Fifty years later, the festival lives on, having grown from a handful of friends to more than 100,000 ...

An 1876 illustration shows the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes at the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati. Anxieties over Republicans' electoral fortunes and the future of Reconstruction ...