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99 unusual facts about Colorado


111th Cavalry Regiment

Troop D, 1st Separate Squadron, Colorado Cavalry at Monte Vista (organized and federally recognized 7 October 1920), redesignated Troop D 1 November 1921.

2013 Solheim Cup

The 2013 Solheim Cup was the 13th edition of the Solheim Cup matches, held on August 16–18 at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker, Colorado, southeast of Denver.

A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo

The box set includes five audio CDs and a DVD of Stone and Echo, a full-length concert film of the band's performance on August 02, 2011, at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

AEI World Forum

Held every summer in Beaver Creek, Colorado, it is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Vail Valley Foundation, and it features a number of AEI scholars and fellows.

Albert McIntire

In 1896 Governor McIntire sent the Colorado National Guard to Leadville due to violence at the Coronado Mine during a strike by the Western Federation of Miners.

Animas River

The Animas River rises high in San Juan Mountains of Colorado at the confluence of the West and North forks at the ghost town of Animas Forks and flows south past the ghost towns of Eureka and Howardsville.

Arnold Jacobs

He was on the faculty of Western State College’s Music Camp at Gunnison, Colorado during the early 1960s.

Billy Brennan

Brennan was again selected as a defenceman for the 1962 Pool A tournament in Colorado Springs in the U.S., where he also captained the team.

Brad Lidge

Lidge currently resides in Englewood, Colorado, with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children, daughter Avery Grace and son Rowan Thomas.

Brookside, Colorado

Brookside is a Statutory Town in Fremont County, Colorado, United States.

Buddy Lazier

Robert Buddy Lazier (born October 31, 1967 in Vail, Colorado) is an American Indycar driver.

Caprock Chief

The Caprock Chief or Caprock Xpress was a proposed Amtrak inter-city rail service which would run from Fort Worth, Texas to Denver, Colorado, passing through the Texas Panhandle, which currently does not have passenger rail service of any kind.

Castleton Tower

The land initially went to an Aspen, Colorado land-developer with a local partner who planned to subdivide the land creating lots for residential housing.

Chas S. Clifton

Starting his own magazine, Iron Mountain: A Journal of Magical Religion in the mid-1980s, he also started a graduate degree in religious studies at the University of Colorado, moving from Manitou Springs to Boulder.

Chicago VI

After recording all of Chicago's first five albums (including the live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall) in New York City, producer James William Guercio had his own Caribou Studios built in Nederland, Colorado during 1972, finished in time for the band to record their sixth album the following February.

Chris McAllister

He is currently an instructor at a hockey school in Superior, Colorado.

Chris Olsen

Chris now lives in Boulder, Colorado and tours actively with the Fusion-trio Time in Motion with bandmates Dan Pearson on alto/barry/and tenor saxophone along with local Boulder drum instructor Steve Saviano.

Christoph von Dohnányi

Jens Georg Bachmann, music director of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, had been in the same position at the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2009.

Christopher F. Norton

Christopher Frazine Norton (July 21, 1821 Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York – May 6, 1880 Perry Park, Douglas County, Colorado) was an American politician from New York.

Circa Reproductions Nieuport

Leading Edge Air Foils of Peyton, Colorado at one time also made construction kits available.

Cleo Spurlock Wallace

Cleo Spurlock Wallace (born Cleo Spurlock, July 29, 1914 in Garo, Colorado - 1985) was an American pioneer in speech therapy.

Coal Ridge High School

Coal Ridge High School is a public secondary school in New Castle, Garfield County, Colorado serving New Castle, Silt, and Rifle.

Colorado-Big Thompson Project

Today, the "C-BT" serves over 33 cities and towns in northeastern Colorado, including Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Estes Park, Boulder, and Sterling, encompassed by 7 counties, providing a secondary source of water for around 830,000 people and an irrigated area of 650,000 acres (2,500 km²).

Colorado's Copper Triangle

The Colorado Cyclist Copper Triangle event is sponsored by Saab, Crocs, Copper Mountain Ski Resort, The Village at Copper and numerous others, while the title sponsor is Colorado Cyclist.

Dan Slater

An attorney in Cañon City, Colorado, Slater ran unsuccessfully for the Colorado State Senate in 2002 before joining the top leadership of the Colorado Democratic Party in 2003.

Donna M. Jones

She spent her early childhood at Rago, Colorado, which is located on the northeastern plains of the state about 20 miles outside of Akron, Colorado.

Drop City

Libre, north of Gardner, Colorado was founded by several ex-"Droppers", and was among the more well known.

Electoral reform in Colorado

In 2007, the Aspen, Colorado City Council votes 5-0 to place a measure on the ballot to implement instant runoff voting in elections.

Emily Susan Rapp

She was trained as a downhill skier at the Center for Disabled Sports in Winter Park, Colorado.

Enos T. Hotchkiss

Enos T. Hotchkiss (March 29, 1832 - January 20, 1900) was credited as being the founder of both Lake City, Colorado and Hotchkiss, Colorado.

Erich Windisch

Windisch also studied architecture and built three houses - one in Vail and two in Dillon, Colorado.

Ervin J. Rokke

Following retirement from Moravian, the Rokkes have relocated to Monument, Colorado.

Felix Pogliano

With his father serving as a miller and a miner, the family settled in Fremont County, Colorado, where Felix attended primary school in the coal camps.

First Baptist Church of Moffat

First Baptist Church of Moffat (also known as Moffat Community Church) is a historic church at 401 Lincoln Avenue in Moffat, Colorado.

Foley's

In 1993, May Department Stores consolidated May D&F into Foley's, which brought Foley's to the Denver-Aurora, Colorado Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins-Loveland markets and re-introduced Foley's to the Albuquerque market.

Fourmile Canyon Creek

This stream rises west of the old mining settlement of Sunshine.

Franz Marx

His greatest successes were a gold medal at the Junior World Championship in Colorado Springs and a bronze medal at the Wrestling World Championships 1981 in Oslo.

Fraser, Colorado

Fraser is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.

Gospel Music Association

Annually held in Estes Park, Colorado, since 1974 "Music in the Rockies" (formally Seminar in the Rockies) is a showcase event for aspiring (often unsigned) songwriters and artists in the Christian music industry.

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Green Mountain Falls is a Statutory Town in El Paso and Teller counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Guido Maus

beta pictoris gallery is also a supporting member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in Denver, Colorado and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado.

Hotchkiss, Colorado

Hotchkiss is a Statutory Town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.

Hungry Hoboes

Hun­gry Hoboes re-debuted in Telluride, Colorado as part of a special animation shorts program presented by leading film historian and restoration expert Serge Bromberg at the 39th Annual Telluride Film Festival.

Janie Johnson series

They find an address, where Hannah may be living in Boulder, Colorado.

John Calderwood

Emma Langdon was the wife of a man who had been a newspaper reporter in Victor, Colorado, during the Cripple Creek miner's strike of 1903-04.

John Gordon Purvis

an Aspen, Colorado detective named Gary White put the first crack in the Hamwi murder,

Joseph Alfred Slade

Julesburg, Colorado named after Jules Beni, whom Slade killed in 1861 after Beni ambushed and shot him multiple times in 1860.

Kim Jin-hi

Plunged into the American avant-garde music scene, she was invited to the Composer-to-Composer festival in Telluride, Colorado in 1989 and joined the one week residency with John Cage and selected leading composers.

Koichi Yamaguchi

In 1987, Koichi came to the United States and founded his own bicycle building company, Yamaguchi Bicycles, based in Rifle, Colorado.

Kremmling, Colorado

Kremmling is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.

Lift Engineering

Potential problems with Yan lifts began to surface as early as 1985, when the upper bullwheel on the Teller lift at Keystone Ski Resort in Colorado disconnected from the main gearbox shaft.

Living Liberally

In April, 2007, the 200th chapter of Drinking Liberally was created in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

Luke Hochevar

Luke Hochevar was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Fowler, Colorado by parents Brian and Carmen Hochevar along with one brother and one sister.

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, now called Magellan Strategies, is a survey research firm with offices in Louisville, Colorado and Geismar, Louisiana.

Meadowlark cooperative

The community enjoyed an unaffiliated non-profit newspaper, the Meadowlark Herald which is published in Elizabeth, Colorado and mails throughout the United States and has an online edition.

Mesa de Maya

The high mesas eastward from Raton, New Mexico and Trinidad, Colorado are sometimes collectively called the Mesa de Maya, Raton Mesas, or the Raton mesa region.

Michelle Black

Black practiced law in both the public and private sectors until 1993, when she moved to Frisco, Colorado and began writing full time.

Mihai Gavrilă

He studied also a visiting scholar at several major physics centers around the world: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (at Dubna in Russia), Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, JILA (Boulder, Colorado, USA), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP (Trieste in Italy), and the University of Pittsburgh, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).

Nathan B. Scott

Born near Quaker City, Ohio, he attended the common schools and engaged in mining near Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1859 to 1862.

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

Late in life, following the 1948 destruction of her Chicago studio, Walker moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she occasionally modeled pottery for the Van Briggle Pottery company, and she died there in 1973, aged 98.

Nick Sanborn

Nick Sanborn (1935–1999) was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

The North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Crawford, Colorado was built during 1933-38.

Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball

The Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, United States.

Paul Foerster

Paul J. Foerster (born November 19, 1963 in Rangely, Colorado) is an American Olympic medalist in sailing, who has won a total of three Olympic medals during his career.

Phantom Canyon

Phantom Canyon is the name of two canyons located in Colorado, in the Western United States.

Pine Junction, Colorado

The community sits astride the Park-Jefferson county line, and is situated at the crest of a hill on the highway, east of where the highway drops from Crow Hill down into the Platte Canyon near Bailey.

Rebecca Tobey

In 1994, the work was placed at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, where students created a custom of kissing the bear for good luck during exams.

Ridin' the Storm Out

The song refers to the band being stuck in a harsh winter blizzard after a show in Boulder, Colorado at a bar called Tulagi's (now closed).

Route of the Oregon Trail

This branch of the trail passed through present-day Julesburg, Colorado before entering Wyoming.

Saab 9-5

The town of Vail, Colorado, had been using Saabs since 1980, but in 2005, the black 9-5 patrol cars were replaced by Ford Explorers, due to budget reasons.

Sai Maa

Sai Maa (born 1953) also known as Her Holiness Sai Maa (Mataji) or Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi is a guru and leader of a large community of followers, the head of the Humanity In Unity organization based in Boulder, Colorado, and an ashram based in Crestone, Colorado.

Silverthorne, Colorado

The Town of Silverthorne is a Home Rule Municipality that is the second most populous town in Summit County, Colorado.

Slopper

One writer determined that the slopper originated in Pueblo, Colorado in the early to mid-1970s.

South Bald Mountain

The summit in Roosevelt National Forest southwest of Red Feather Lakes is the highest of five peaks forming Bald Mountain.

Steve Marker

After living for 25 years in Madison, following's Garbage hiatus in 2005, Marker relocated to Carbondale, Colorado with his family.

Swift raids

On December 12, federal agents raided Swift plants in Hyrum, Utah; Greeley, Colorado; Marshalltown, Iowa; Grand Island, Nebraska; Cactus, Texas; and Worthington, Minnesota.

T. J. Tarsney

On June 22, 1894, he was staying in the Alamo Hotel in Colorado Springs.

The Ballad of Baby Doe

The story begins by commenting on the riches of the Matchless Mine and on how Horace Tabor owns the whole town of Leadville, Colorado.

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

In February 2008, the book was removed from school libraries in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Java Posse

The group has also organized the "Java Posse Roundup", an unconference held in Crested Butte, Colorado in 2007-2014 and organized by Bruce Eckel.

Thomas Keating

Keating currently lives at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, as does Fr.

Tie Siding, Wyoming

Tie Siding interacted with such nearby communities as Virginia Dale, LaPorte and Pingree Park.

Tracks to Telluride

The game is played on a map of southwestern Colorado between the cities of Denver, Grand Junction, Dolores and Trinidad.

Treat Her Right

"I Think She Likes Me" describes Sandman's experience in a Fairplay, Colorado bar where a woman came on to him.

U.S. Route 46

In 1925, the US 46 designation was first proposed for a route in Colorado connecting Limon to Grand Junction, but it instead became U.S. Highway 40S.

U.S. Route 6 in Ohio

The route was not extended into Ohio until 1931, when the highway was expanded to Greeley, Colorado.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 1984

In Denver you can see the more urban Denver County turning out ahead for Mondale, while the also highly populated suburban heights above Denver, in Jefferson County, for example, voted very strongly for Reagan.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 1992

Perot also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only 14 counties which Perot won nationwide.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 2000

Colorado is allocated 8 electors because it has 6 congressional districts and 2 senators.

Vance Johnson

Johnson owned his own real estate company in Grand Junction, Colorado, and is now the owner of Vance's Epicurious in Grand Junction and VJ's Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, Colorado, where he lived with his son, Scott.

Vera Bryndzei

Her only international success came the next year when Bryndzei became the 1977 World Allround Champion in Keystone.

Victoria Osteen

Sharon Brown, a Continental Airlines flight attendant, accused Victoria Osteen of assault before a December 19, 2005 flight from Houston, Texas to Vail, Colorado.

Warren A. Haggott

He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in 1899 at Idaho Springs, Colorado.

William Francis Hillebrand

After returning home to the United States in 1878, he opened an assay office in Leadville, Colorado, in 1879, and then started working as a chemist at the United States Geological Survey in 1880.

William L. Shelton

Following staff college, he was assigned to work for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Air Force Space Command on Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

William Lutley Sclater

He then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been founded by Charlotte's brother-in-law, General William Jackson Palmer.

Zentatsu Richard Baker

After the founding of Dharma Sangha in New Mexico, Baker then moved on to Crestone, Colorado and Germany to found other practice sites for Dharma Sangha.


1806 in the United States

November 15 – Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (later named Pikes Peak in his honor).

1996 Holiday Bowl

Jeremy Aldrich kicked a 42-yard field goal before halftime, to put Colorado on top 24–21.

Amphitheatre

Notable natural amphitheatres include the Drakensberg amphitheatre in Drakensberg, South Africa, Slane Castle in Ireland, the Supernatural Amphitheatre in Victoria, Australia, and Echo amphitheatre, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado and The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State, United States.

Argentina at the 2006 Winter Olympics

44-year-old Colorado resident Clyde Getty represented Argentina in the men's aerials, finishing last in the field after failing to land his second jump.

Casas Grandes

Ruins similar to those of Casas Grandes exist near Gila and Salinas in New Mexico, and in Colorado.

Central City Opera

The World Premiere of Chinese opera, Poet Li Bai, commissioned by the Asian Performing Arts of Colorado, was presented in 2007.

Coffeeweed

Sesbania herbacea (Family Fabaceae), also known as "Colorado River hemp" or "bigpod sesbania", a plant species native to the United States

Compleat Angler Hotel

In addition to Ernest Hemingway, additional notable visitors have included Lucille Ball, singer and writer Jimmy Buffett, and Colorado senator Gary Hart, whose presidential aspirations were sunken in 1987 when compromising photographs were released of him at the lodge with a woman who was not his wife.

Dudi Appleton

In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.

Elitch Gardens

The Sidewinder was Colorado's first looping coaster, and arrived from Magic Springs and Crystal Falls park in 1990.

Emporia State University

In March 2010, the Lady Hornets basketball team won the NCAA Division II National Championship, defeating the Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Skyhawks.

Estella Leopold

By studying the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, Leopold helped recreate the paleoenvironment of the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

Fort Morgan

Fort Morgan (Colorado), a frontier military post located in present-day Fort Morgan, Colorado

Fred Rath

Fred Rath, Jr. (born 1973), son of the above, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies

Glen Alps

He attended Colorado State College of Education (today University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado, where he received the Bachelor of Arts in 1940.

Graland

Dan Grossman, ’83 - attorney and a former member of the Colorado General Assembly

Gypsum, Colorado

The Town of Gypsum is a Home Rule Municipality located in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

H. Steven Blum

# August 2002 - April 2003, Chief of Staff, United States Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

Happy Hunting

After marrying her third husband, Continental Airlines executive Robert Six, in 1953, Ethel Merman retired from performing and happily embraced the life of a Colorado housewife.

James Belich

T. James Belich (born 1976), playwright, also known by pseudonym of Colorado Tolston

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Both these pueblos and missions were on the California side of the Colorado River near the mouth of the Gila River but were administered by the Arizona authorities.

Julie Rosen

Originally from Colorado, Rosen graduated from high school in Denver, and later graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Agronomy from Colorado State University.

KDTA

KJYE, a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to serve Delta, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KDTA until 1986 and from 1988 to 2012

KENG

KDBN, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Parachute, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KENG from 2008 to 2009

KLMR

KLMR-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Lamar, Colorado, United States

Lewis T. Babcock

Among the notable cases he has handled are:Lane v. Owens, in which he ruled that the State of Colorado could not permissibly compel recitation of the pledge of allegiance; Golan v. Gonzales, in which he held that the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act did not violate the United States Constitution; and the litigation arising out of the Columbine High School massacre.

Marbella Suns

Former Colorado player Zac Colvin helped out from the field as a quarterback to lead the team into major Spanish competition.

Michael Zimmerman

Michael E. Zimmerman (born 1946), philosopher at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Midnight Ridazz

Josh Anderson, founder of "Bike Gang" in Grand Junction, Colorado, cites an Alternative Press article about Midnight Ridazz as his inspiration for organizing the group/ride.

Modular Airborne FireFighting System

The training is coordinated with the Air Force Reserve's 302d Airlift Wing at Colorado's Peterson Air Force Base, the Air National Guard's 153d Airlift Wing from Cheyenne, Wyoming, the 146th Airlift Wing from Port Hueneme, California, and the 145th Airlift Wing from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mountain Village, Colorado

Mountain Village is a Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Nancy Steinbeck

She and John met in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975, where they studied Tibetan Buddhism at Naropa University with Chögyam Trungpa, the notorious renegade Tibetan lama.

National Encounter Party

However, the PEN was reduced to eight seats in the Chamber and seven in the Senate as the Colorado Party regained their majority in both houses, and the alliance's presidential candidate, Domingo Laino finished second with 43.9% of the vote.

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Neil Shepard

Shepard studied with William Tremblay for his Master's work at Colorado State University and with Stanley Plumly, Wayne Dodd, and Paul Nelson for his doctoral work at Ohio University.

Norris Division

The Winnipeg Jets return to the Smythe Division when the Colorado Rockies move to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to become the New Jersey Devils; the Devils are moved from the Smythe Division to the Patrick Division.

North Star Camp

The campers at North Star are boys aged 8–15 who come from all over the country (including Chicago, Texas, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, St. Louis, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, California, Florida, Kansas City, Omaha, and many more).

Peanuts Hucko

From 1966, he was featured regularly at Dick Gibson's Colorado jazz parties where he appeared with the Ten Greats of Jazz, later the World's Greatest Jazz Band.

Rubén Aguirre

Aguirre was a personal friend of journalist Carlos Villagrán, who later played Quico in the same show and also acted in El Chapulín Colorado.

Salix serissima

These include four in the Black Hills of South Dakota (two on the Black Hills National Forest); one in the Sherman Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming (on the Medicine Bow National Forest); seven in north-central Colorado (one on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest); and one in southwestern Colorado (potentially on the San Juan National Forest).

Senate Conservatives Fund

The PAC also supported a number of candidates that lost their elections, including Sharron Angle in Nevada, Ken Buck in Colorado, Joe Miller in Alaska, John Raese in West Virginia, Dino Rossi in Washington, and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.

Snowmass

Snowmass Mountain, a mountain in the Elk Mountains in Colorado, U.S.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Thede

Thede Farmhouse, farmhouse in Northglenn, Colorado, United States

Wiggins, Colorado

Around 1900, Corona was renamed in honor of Oliver P. Wiggins, who served as a guide and scout for Captain John C. Frémont, on some of his explorations through northern Colorado in the 1840s.

Windsong Records

Windstar Records – originally known as Windsong Records, Colorado based record label responsible for releasing John Denver recordings.