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1976 Winter Olympic Games - Colorado's Promotion, Planning & Protest

Mike and Kit Strang, horse ranchers in the Roaring Fork Valley, donated a conservation easement on their 450-acre spread with a magnificent view of Mount Sopris.
Grand Tetons / moon
This artist's conception shows Titan's surface with Saturn appearing dimly in the background through Titan's thick atmosphere of mostly nitrogen and methane. The Cassini spacecraft flies overhead with its high-gain antenna pointed at the Huygens probe ...

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Jeff Griffiths, 8, as the wicked Darth Vader. October 30, 1977. Photo by Bill Perry. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection
E.T. jack-o-lantern at John Amesse Elementary School. October 27, 1982. Photo by Laura Lynn Fistler. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection
“Don’t let children go empty handed on Halloween.” October 26, 1966. Unidentified photographer. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

Halloween In Denver, 1960-1988

Marine Sgt. Jeremy Kocher stands watch near the body of Lance Cpl. Evenor Herrera
Marines escort the casket of Marine Lance Corporal Evenor Herrera to a gravesite in Eagle.
Blanca Stibbs rests her head on her husband David Stibbs' shoulder

Final Salute

Emergency workers treat wounded students during the Columbine shooting.
Dale Napoletano hugs his sister during a memorial service honoring Columbine's victims.
Fifteen crosses honoring the Columbine dead stand in the night glow.

Columbine: Images of Tragedy

Friends of Terry Barton react to the news that she had been charged with arson.
Brandi Stollak carries an American flag with Mike Stubbs.
A P3 Orion bomber drops a load of fire retardant on the Big Elk Fire near Estes Park, Colorado.

Colorado on Fire

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