During Colorado’s halcyon days, when gold and silver poured from the mountains, there was no greater triumph and no greater fall than that of Horace Austin Warner (“Haw”) Tabor, Augusta Tabor, Baby Doe Tabor, and the Matchless Mine. Throughout the late 1850s, ’60s and ’70s, Horace Tabor and his wife Augusta, were respectable citizens of [...]

Tucked in a canyon on the Colorado Plateau, deep within soaring sandstone walls, is one of the most sacred sites to the Navajo Indians. They call it tseyi “place within the rocks.” The name was corrupted by Spanish explorers to Chelly, and eventually to Canyon de Chelly. Just east of the town of Chinle, Arizona, [...]

Cripple Creek, elevation 9, 494 feet, just below tree line was not part of the Colorado gold rush that began in the late 1850s. It was thought the area was too high and barren of that precious metal. However, in October 1890, Robert Womack discovered extremely rich ore and the last great Colorado gold rush [...]

New Mexico, the “land of enchantment,” lives up to its reputation for beautiful locations and great things to see and do. From mountains to deserts, sand dunes to snow capped peaks, New Mexico has it all. Here are SeeTheSouthwest’s top 10 picks for places to visit and things to do in New Mexico. 1. Carlsbad [...]

Tucked into a maze of canyons in some of the most remote country in the continental U.S., is a 46-mile-long canyon famous for white water rafting adventure, as well as some of the most beautiful scenery in the Southwest, Cataract Canyon. Located in both Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation area, the canyon [...]

In 1848, a group of Cherokee on their way to California over the Cherokee Trail discovered gold in a stream bed in the South Platte basin. They reported the information to their tribe in Oklahoma. Eventually a man named William Green Russell (married to a Cherokee woman) heard the news and rushed to the area [...]