Cold War Secrets

COLD WAR SECRETS When a Russian history professor vanished from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1969, only a handful of intelligence officials in Washington paid attention to the…

A Dream Delivered

A Dream Delivered, excerpt The snow is falling in Five Points, blotting out the downtown skyline and the jagged peaks of the Front Range. Bundled in coats and hats, the…

The Plutonium Files

AMERICA'S SECRET MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE COLD WAR Excerpt The accident occurred on August 1, 1944, a morning like any other in Los Alamos: hot, dry, the sky an indigo…

The General and the Jaguar

PERSHING'S HUNT FOR PANCHO VILLA: A TRUE STORY OF REVOLUTION AND REVENGE Excerpt When the soldiers saw the yellow lights of the ranch house, they were seized with hunger. Sometimes…

Healers and Hellraisers

DENVER HEALTH'S FIRST 150 YEARS On the afternoon of March 7, 1860, more than 600 residents from the rival settlements of Auraria and Denver City gathered on the north bank…

Deep Roots

ASPEN POINTE AND COLORADO SPRINGS - TOGETHER SINCE 1875 Gathering up her long dress, Mrs. D. Russ Wood hurried toward a room near the center of town. It was early…

The Highwaymen

Ric Williamson, a former state legislator and longtime pal of Gov. Rick Perry, runs the monthly meetings of the Texas Transportation Commission like a traffic cop. Staff members give brisk…

And on the Eighth Day, Dr. Dobson Created Himself

The country’s most powerful evangelical Christian bursts through a door at the rear of his Colorado Springs radio studio. James Clayton Dobson is moving fast, head down, manila folder under…

Lomas del Poleo

Until recently, it seemed only the dogs of Lomas del Poleo were free. Each day, the little mutts made their rounds, trotting past destroyed pallet homes, the stacked tires that…