Now, nearly three-quarters of its working population travels each day over Fremont Pass to the Summit County ski resorts or over Tennessee Pass to Vail, returning each night because housing in ...

The new watersheds it traveled span a large swath of mountains, hills and high prairie stretching from Leadville to Salida, Fairplay and Cañon City. The map shows where the state’s now 29 ...

By 1880, Leadville had the second largest population in Colorado and it was among the communities considered as a possible new state capital. In the late 1880s, Leadville’s population approached ...