Reprinted with permission by George R. Williams Hot iron brands have been used to identify ownership of personal property for well over 4000 years....

Reprinted from the Bicentennial Edition of the Greenhorn Valley News July 2, 1976 Do-Ray Lamp Co. Is Now Employing Over 110 Workers In July 1975...

As the Rye Class of 2013 celebrates their graduation, perhaps too, they can celebrate the graduating class of 1933, eighty years ago: (some with mar...

In 1972, The Rye Home Methodist Church recognized Frank Graham for sixty years of continuous service; Mollie also was a long standing member serving s...

Frank Berg was born to James and Capitola Evarts Berg in Goodpasture, Colorado on May 9, 1893. His early life was marked by tragedy. His ten-year-ol...

“John Graham came to Colorado from Stevenson, Alabama in the 1880’s. The first word about him was from a letter written to Sterling Cawlfield who h...

The following account was published in a booklet, “Railroad Accidents in Colorado” by the Pueblo County Historical Society in 1982. “Why there we...

In April of 1878, the Pueblo Chieftain reported the first meeting of the Greenhorn Stock Association. The meeting was held at the school house on t...

In 1957, a sunken tennis court was built in Rye that could also be used as a skating rink. It was built as a memorial to Rye High School student, Dona...

In 1876, as the State of Colorado admitted to the Union, The Methodist Episcopal Church South received its charter for an Epworth League. This yout...

Passing by it on the way into Pueblo, it is difficult to determine what exactly Stem Beach is? Technically, Stem Beach is the name of the unincorpo...

In April of 1878, the Pueblo Chieftain reported the first meeting of the Greenhorn Stock Association. The meeting was held at the school house o...

By an unknown author, published in 1885 “Leaving Pueblo our train runs along the side, and gradually climbs the bluffs, which skirt the river bot...

Bumper crops of hay and grain from ample moisture to break the drought of many years. Early and heavy fall snows prevented gathering of some gr...

The third quarter of 2012 revolved around the Hollydot golf course and the Colorado City Metro District. Early in the quarter the CCMD board voted to ...

William Robinson was born in September of 1808 in South Carolina. He married Frances L. Wood in October 1833 in Hall Co., GA. They moved to Fors...

William Green Robinson, the oldest son of William Green and Mary Ann McCleskey Robinson was 15 years old when the family arrived in Colorado in 18...

A May election dominated the second quarter of 2012. Five candidates for the Colorado City Metro District and five candidates for the Rye Fire Distric...

The hottest story in the first quarter of 2012 was the shake up in Rye Fire Protection District personnel. The Board of Directors reflected the t...

A snappy-eyed, good-natured lovable man was our sheriff. In those days the name sheriff was a sort of bogey-man, but that name held no horrors for us....

Several cemeteries exist in the Greenhorn Valley area. Many are on private land, some with unidentified remains. Some graves have been looted; other ...

(Jamison Family Memoir to follow in a later edition of The View) John Jamison was born in 1802 in Pennsylvania. He married Margaret Ralston on Jun...

This is the hike you will want to plan for late fall or your last hike of the season, as the colors on this last-day-of-September hike were almost ind...

(September 1, 1876 - March 7, 1953) John A. and Hannah Jane Jamison came across the country in covered wagons drawn by six oxen each. In the party w...

The hike to the Marion Mine starts by going up the Cisneros Trail. The Cisneros Trail starts at the back end of the St. Charles campground at San Isa...

The hike from San Isabel Lake down to the Natural Water Slide is one of the most unique and enchanting in the San Isabel Recreation Area. Unique b...

In 1908, Allan Mingus begin chopping down trees to take advantage of a new provision of the Homestead Act allowing tracts within National Forests ...

Although this hike is rated difficult, three of us and four dogs set out for an interesting day trip. The parking area is at the end of Bartlett Trai...

Just in case warm summer evenings and harvest time scents aren’t enough, this August offers us two full moons. The first is today (Aug.1) and the s...

I took dozens of pictures on the short hike from the western edge of San Isabel Lake, up the St Charles River, and through the picnic area. This sha...

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