WEST LEDGER
Place & Territory
Pueblo
Probability Archive — Active
Home of Heroes
Four Medal of Honor recipients from one city. The archive's definition of hero is more precise — and the pattern runs deeper than any single war.
Crime Archive — Pueblo, 1985
The Detective in the Driveway
A narcotics detective shot in his own driveway. The investigation first looked outward. Then it turned back toward the house.
Regional Archive
All Locations — Active Series
Regional Archive
Mapped archive of Southern Colorado's most historically layered, folklore-dense, and anomaly-producing locations.
Las Animas County
Trinidad
Coal wars. Underground tunnels. The city buries its records in layers that do not always agree.
Field Record
Las Animas & Huerfano Counties
Ghost Towns of Southern Colorado
What remains of the CF&I coal company towns — Cokedale, Hastings, Tercio, Starkville, Morley, and Ludlow. Six sites surveyed. Visitor access, current condition, and the system that built them all.
Road Record
Colorado Route 12 — Trinidad to La Veta
Highway of Legends
82 miles from Trinidad to La Veta — through the coke ovens at Cokedale, the dike walls at Stonewall, the meadows above Cuchara, and under the Spanish Peaks. What to see, what to know, and what most travelers miss.
Field Guide
Alamosa, Costilla & Saguache Counties
The San Luis Valley
The tallest sand dunes in North America, the oldest town in Colorado, Blanca Peak, Kit Carson's fort, dark sky astronomy, natural hot springs, and the UFO corridor. A complete guide to the most geologically and historically extraordinary basin in the Rocky Mountain West.
Pueblo County
Boone
Founded by Daniel Boone's grandson. Built on a crossing older than any town. The river has been here longer than every name given to it.
Field Guide
Fremont County — Arkansas River
Royal Gorge
A canyon 1,250 feet deep. A suspension bridge that held the world record for 72 years. A railroad war fought with hired guns in 1878. A scenic excursion railroad still running at river level today. What the gorge is, and how to see all of it.
Field Guide
El Paso County — Front Range
Pikes Peak
14,115 feet. The cog railway (rebuilt 2021), the 19-mile highway, and Barr Trail. Katharine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful” at the top in 1893. The Hill Climb has been run since 1916. A complete guide to Colorado’s most famous mountain.
Long Features
Canon City — Interactive
The Canon City Blacksmith
Forge documentation. Hargrove Method Archive.
Recovered Object
The Corbie Reliquary
What was recovered. What was not.
Death Record — Anomalous
The Reckoning Book of Abner Rourke
For twenty years he named the hour he expected to die. On his final day, the hour was off by twenty-three minutes.
Regional Archive — Object Ledger
The Pueblo Saddle Ledger
Eight saddles from the Pueblo corridor. Each with a documented ownership chain. Each with a history that did not end with its last recorded owner.
GRAND REGISTER
Cases & Anomalies
Full Record
Las Animas & Huerfano — 1913–1914
The Colorado Coalfield War
The strike against Colorado Fuel & Iron, the tent colonies, the Ludlow Massacre, the Ten Days' War, and what followed. The defining event in Colorado labor history — fully documented.
Disaster Record — April 27, 1917
The Hastings Mine Disaster
One hundred and twenty-one men entered the CF&I mine at Hastings on the morning of April 27, 1917. None came out. One of the worst mine disasters in Colorado history — and one of the least documented.
Case Record
Hinsdale County — 1874
Alferd Packer
The winter of 1874, five dead men on Cannibal Plateau above Lake City, a nine-year manhunt, and two trials that could not agree on what the crime was. The complete case record from the archive.
Complete Record
Kiowa County — November 29, 1864
The Sand Creek Massacre
Colonel Chivington attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp flying a US flag at dawn. Between 150 and 200 people died. Captain Silas Soule refused to give the order to fire — and was murdered four months later. The complete record.
Investigations
Active — All Cases
Investigations Desk
Cryptids, paranormal, treasure, and unexplained phenomena from the frontier record.
Pueblo County
Crime Desk
Justice notices, custody records, and blotter entries from the frontier record.
Sealed — Open Inquiry
Case Files
Recovered documents and sealed correspondence from active and archived investigations.
Handle With Discretion
Ransom Notes
Five case files. Conditions and instructions vary.
Anomaly Records
Beulah, 1877 — Closed / Disputed
The Solid Muldoon
The fraud was exposed. The measurements were not.
EAST EXCHANGE
Persons & Profiles
Complete Record
Colorado, 1879–1887
Doc Holliday in Colorado
Denver, Leadville, the extradition Governor Pitkin refused, and the final months in Glenwood Springs. He spent more of his adult life in Colorado than anywhere else — and the poker-gated archive file proves it.
Historical Profiles
1865–1912
Benjamin Guggenheim
Colorado industry, European high society, and the final Atlantic crossing.
Frontier Record
Abner Rourke
Frontiersman. Contractor. Something else entirely.
Frontier Record
Benjamin Hale
A recovered profile from the frontier record.
Frontier Record
Jeremiah Pike
A recovered profile from the frontier record.
Frontier Record
Reuben Hale
A recovered profile from the frontier record.
Frontier Record
Thomas Riggs
A recovered profile from the frontier record.
Photographic Pursuit Record — 1837–1929
Caleb Sloane
The First Tempest Photographer. He tracked weather over southern Colorado for decades before anyone had a name for it. His tornado photograph was rejected because it showed too much.
