Western Voices: 125 years of Colorado
Writing
Edited by Steve Grinstead and Ben
Fogelberg
396 pages, softcover $19.95. Fulcrum Press,
2004.
Editors from the Colorado Historical Society chose
the essays in this diverse collection, and they chose well.
There’s Muriel Sibell Wolle describing the intense two-year
lifespan of a mining town too high to endure — Irwin, near
Crested Butte. Other glimpses of Colorado’s colorful past
range from the fight to use peyote for religious purposes to the
story behind the murder of liberal disc jockey Alan Berg in Denver
in 1984.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Western Voices: 125 years of Colorado Writing.
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