A Look Back at the Talks in 2022

January 26, 2022: Shaun Boyd, Curator of Archives at History Colorado, discussed the 1924-1926 registers of the Ku Klux Klan. The registers were digitized in 2021 and in addition to being searchable online they have been mapped to show the addresses of the members.

February 23, 2022: Jane Little Botkin shared the story of the woman who led a rebellion of maids in Denver in 1916. The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver is the title of her talk and her book.

March 23, 2022: I Will Die Like a Man! Longtime Posse Member Dennis Hagen spoke on a little known event that occurred in 1890 on Montana's Tongue River Indian Reservation.

April 27, 2022: John Wesley Anderson gave a presentation on several chapters from his book Colorado's Nearly Forgotten History, 1776-1876.

May 25, 2022: "Dr. Colorado" Tom Noel discussed his 56th book, written with Bill Hansen, Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic.

June 22, 2022: Brad Bowers presented on the Colorado-Kansas Railway and its history and impact, from his book, Bound by Steel and Stone: The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960.

July 27, 2022: Annual Meeting and Three Presentations - The First Hour of a History of Denver Television by Roger Dudley; Highlights from the 1924 “Colorado Cloudland” film by David Emrich; and A 50-Year History of the Tattered Cover Book Store by Mark Barnhouse.

August 20, 2022: Summer Rendezvous at Boyd Lake State Park. Gail Murphy, Colorado’s Rosie the Riveter by Gail Beaton.

September 28, 2022: 1909 Glidden Auto Tour by Lee Whiteley

October 26, 2022: 10th Mountain Division in World War II by Dr. Chris Juergens

November 16, 2022: Two Brief Lessons in Colorado History Using Maps by Wes Brown

December 14, 2022: Union Station in Denver by Rhonda Beck