A round trip bicycle race between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, held in the early Twentieth century. The prize was somewhere between $25 and $50. The event was sponsored by the Strawberry Days Committee in Glenwood Springs. As to the route: After crossing the River at Palisade, it closely followed Plateau Creek to Atwell Bridge, went up the hill into De Beque, across the bridge to the north side of the river, through De Beque’s Main Street,...

On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...