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Duroc Hog farm in rural northeast Haxtun Colorado had the largest hog facility in the country! ......So when homesteaders began pouring...

The following article is quoted entirely from the book, Uncommon Men and the Colorado Prairie by Nell Brown Propst. Others did not even...

The arrival of the railroad in the late 1800's brought many changes to the growing settlements across the plains of Northeast Colorado....

On March 17, 2017, the small close-knit community of Haxtun Colorado, would be forever changed. And while the healing began the day...

The movie and film production industry were expanding and growing in the larger metropolitan cities in the late 1800's, and by the early...

By the late 1800's, the new pioneers of Northeast Colorado, were getting established with their prairie environment, migrating and...

.......there was sod and sagebrush and desolate land as far as the eye could see! A land with only occasional jackrabbits feeding on what...

"There's millions in it," read a local newspaper in Sterling Colorado in 1901, as the dreams of what raising sugar beets in the valley of...

When dark ominous clouds roll suspiciously across the plains of northeast Colorado at the end of wheat harvest day on a July evening, ...

In those early days, especially in rural and farm areas, taking a photo of anything of importance was a luxury, a far cry from today when...

New Haven, Colorado, a historic community, thirteen miles south of Fleming Colorado, was discovered and settled in 1909, by a inspiring...

With the expansion of the railroad in the early 1900's, family owned general stores sprang up across every small town in the eastern...

What do cooks cook when they are cooking for hundreds a day? That was the challenge of professional school lunch ladies back in the day! ...

First sod school in the late 1800's in the Fairfield Community, north of Haxtun Colorado.

While this band, formed in the early 1900's may not of been 'famous" as in Nashville or "Hollywood," it was well known and respected as...

The dust bowl drought of the late 20's and early 30's produced dry land conditions creating a massive migration of hungry jackrabbits...

Dailey, a tiny town sandwiched between Haxtun and Fleming, Colorado, was and is today the epitome of "small." As the old saying goes...

High school students in the early 1900's that lived in rural communities of larger towns didn't always have the opportunities to extend...

You might not believe this........ but cheese factories in the early 1900's were scattered everywhere across the plains of small towns in...

In the age when communication with loved ones and family members was difficult, a picture postcard was a very inexpensive (one cent...