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John Elway

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John Elway (1960–) is a former National Football League quarterback and general manager of the Denver Broncos . Elway won two Super Bowls as a Broncos player (1997 and 1998) and a third (2015) as the team’s general manager. As perhaps the most popular and most accomplished player in Broncos history...

Chauncey Billups

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Chauncey Billups (1976–) is a retired National Basketball Association (NBA) player who played for seven teams, including the Denver Nuggets , before he retired in 2014. A Colorado native, Billups was a star player at the University of Colorado–Boulder before he was drafted into the NBA, where he...

Amy Van Dyken

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Amy Van Dyken in 2017

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Amy Van Dyken (1973–) is a six-time Olympic gold medalist and former competitive swimmer for the United States. In 1996 she became the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Despite an ATV crash in 2014 that left her paralyzed from the waist down, the Colorado...

Louise Bethel Sneed Hill

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Louise Bethel Sneed Hill (1862–1955) was a socialite, philanthropist, and creator of Denver ’s Sacred Thirty-Six, the first internationally recognized elite society in the city. Hill helped Denver attain international attention as a refined city and desirable destination. Her life reflected the...

Kevin Duggan

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Kevin Duggan is a senior reporter and columnist for the Fort Collins Coloradoan. He is a Colorado native and grew up in the Denver area. He graduated from Regis High School in 1974. He attended the University of Colorado in Boulder and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English with emphasis in...

Patty Limerick

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Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is also a professor of environmental studies and history. In addition, Patty served as the Colorado State Historian and served on the National Endowment...

Alferd Packer

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Alferd E. Packer (1842–1909), also “Alfred,” was a prospector who became famous after confessing to eating his dead comrades while trapped in the San Juan Mountains in February 1874. With the group starving and disoriented, it appears likely that Packer killed another prospector in self-defense and...

Clara Brown

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Clara Brown (c. 1803–85) was an ex-slave who became a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and humanitarian in Denver and Central City . She is said to be the first African American woman to have traveled West during the Colorado Gold Rush . While in Central City, she established Gilpin County ’s first...

Ku Klux Klan in Colorado

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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist and terrorist organization whose history includes two distinct waves of activity. The first KKK was created in Tennessee in 1866 and was not active in Colorado. A chapter was not established in the Centennial State until 1915, after the group’...

Carol Taylor

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Carol Taylor is a local historian and researcher with expertise creating compelling public programs and interpretive writing for historical exhibits. She has worked with partners such as the Native American Rights Fund, National Park Service, Colorado Music Hall of Fame, Boedecker Theater at The...

Bill Tremblay

Added by yongli on 01/28/2019 - 10:57, last changed on 12/02/2019 - 01:07
Bill Tremblay is a poet and novelist. His work has appeared in nine full-length volumes including Crying in the Cheap Seats (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), The Anarchist Heart (New York: New Rivers Press, 1977). Home Front (Spokane, WA: Lynx House Press, 1978),...

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Placerville on the banks of the San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County ’s first poet laureate and as Western Slope Poet Laureate. She teaches poetry for twelve-step recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers...

Jared Smith

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Jared Smith is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry. His work has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies here and abroad. He is Poetry Editor of Turtle Island Quarterly (e-zine,) and has worked on the editorial staff of The New York Quarterly, Home Planet News , and The...

Pattiann Rogers

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Pattiann Rogers has published fourteen books of poetry, two prose books, and a book in collaboration with the Colorado artist Joellyn Duesberry. Rogers is the recipient of two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award. Among other awards, her poems have received five Pushcart...

Pamela Uschuk

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Political activist and wilderness advocate Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love (2010 American Book Award) and her most recent collection, Blood Flower (2015). Translated into more than a dozen languages, her work appears in over 300 journals and...

Wendy Videlock

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Wendy Videlock is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and a life-long student of the world. She lives on the Western Slope of Colorado in Palisade . Her books include Nevertheless (San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2011) , Slingshots & Love Plums (San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press,...

Lisa Zimmerman

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Lisa Zimmerman’s poems and short stories have appeared in Cave Wall, Poet Lore, Florida Review, and many other magazines. Her poetry collections include The Light at the Edge of Everything (Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2008) and The Hours I Keep (Mint Hill, NC: Main Street Rag, 2016). She...

Jessy Randall

Added by yongli on 01/25/2019 - 13:29, last changed on 11/25/2019 - 01:07
Jessy Randall lives in Colorado Springs. Her poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Asimov’s , McSweeney’s , and Poetry . She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Suicide Hotline Hold Music (Red Hen Press, 2016) a collection of poems and comics. Her...

Emily Pérez

Added by yongli on 01/25/2019 - 12:58, last changed on 02/20/2019 - 14:48
Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone . She lives in Denver with her husband and sons. Poems Correction You are fifteen the first time it happens and you know the power of names and renaming from your study of the Bible, from learning about slavery, from that made-for-TV movie...

Beth Paulson

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Beth Paulson lives in Ouray County , Colorado where she teaches workshops, leads Poetica, a monthly workshop for area writers, and co-directs the Open Bard Poetry Series. She formerly taught English at California State University Los Angeles for twenty-two years. Her poems have been...

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