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History Colorado's critically acclaimed podcast, Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains, expands the history of the American West by exploring how overlooked stories from the past have shaped current world events and continue to impact our lives…
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The Thirty-Eighth Star: Colorado Becomes the Centennial State (opens the original)
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Colorado became a state in 1876. But the road to becoming the 38th star was hardly straightforward. In this episode of Lost Highways, the team follows the seventeen-year statehood story that finally brought Colorado into the Union. Taxes, railroads, gold, and Civil War politics all played a role. But the most consequential battle centered on the deceptively simple question of who got to have a voice in Colorado's future. In 1865, just 137 Black Coloradans answered that question with a petition d
Selling the Springs: William Jackson Palmer and the Business of Paradise (opens the original)
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Colorado Springs has long sold a seductive story: a Quaker Civil War general falls in love with Pikes Peak, builds a railroad, and creates a beautiful, healthy city where churches replace saloons and the Rocky Mountain air restores the soul. But the real story of Colorado's second city is stranger—and tells a more interesting story about how becoming a state depended as much on marketing as on gold rushes or coal booms. In this episode of Lost Highways , we peel back the myth of William Jackson
Expedition 1776: The Journey of Domínguez & Escalante (opens the original)
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Ready to rediscover Colorado's statehood story? To commemorate the state's 150th anniversary on August 1, 2026, Lost Highways hit the road for an all-new, three-part series asking what happens to our sense of our state when we rethink its starting points. We're kicking things off with "Expedition 1776," tracking the epic journey of two Franciscan priests through what became Colorado. While the thirteen colonies were busy declaring independence in the East, these two men were leading an expeditio
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