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 ...

In the Colorado Territory, the first Monday in April was reserved for municipal elections, and in 1876 none were more closely ...

At the Denver Theater, the Ladies’ Relief Society passed out New Year’s gifts to poor children. There were well-attended “hops” at Guard Hall and the Inter-Ocean Hotel. At midnight, as bells rang out ...

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 ...

The specimen arrived in the offices of the Las Animas Leader in a glass bottle in late March 1876, courtesy of a local ...

Colorado’s path to statehood was anything but straightforward. The process stretched across nearly two decades, collided with national politics and reflected deep disagreements about power, ...

The details of these amnesty measures, and the widespread fear they could lead to a President Jefferson Davis, would be raised again in Colorado politics 147 years later, in the trial over an attempt ...

But in 1876, most of the rest of Colorado was still a long way from looking like it does today. Even in the San Luis Valley — the first part of the territory to have been settled by non-native people, ...