Restless native

Rob Carrigan is a third-generation Colorado Native. His grandfather's homestead was near the Hamilton turnoff between Craig and Meeker. He grew up in Dolores. Carrigan can be reached by emailing robcarrigan1@gmail.com.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Fight of the century perhaps not in the ring

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Johnson was convicted but left the country in order to avoid serving the one-year sentence. By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com It...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Time travel and no running water

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Thus, the need for the two whiskey barrels on the back porch. By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com “How long a minute is, depe...

Friday, April 9, 2010

The bear's lessons

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"Most things break," says Wallace Stegner. "The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus." ...

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Bears forever marked by loss of the shepherds

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Part 5 In early times, when pandas still lived in the mountains of Tibet, the bears were white as snow. They were friends with four shephe...

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Evil turned into pine nuts, yucca fruit and cacti

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Part 4 The Navajo legend presents Changing Bear Maiden as a demonic she-bear. Originally a human maiden, she weds a coyote, which her twel...

Monday, April 5, 2010

Dolores, and other bears laid bare

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Part 3 Spectacled bears, the only bear native to South America and its largest carnivore, are under threat from loss of habitat and from...

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Bear begins the eternal hunt once more

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Part 2 The Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia and the Iroquois along the St. Lawrence Seaway share one story about the Big Bear. The quadrangle ...

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