by Meg Dunn | Oct 16, 2015 | Architecture & Neighborhoods, Mining/Quarry Towns, Renovations & Razes
I’ve written several stories that include the quarry town of Stout, Colorado. (Pioneer Life, a Life of Sacrifice and Sorrow; Hugo Frey – Tales of Adventure from a Native Son; and The Flowers of Bellvue all included connections to Stout.) But what I really long...
by Meg Dunn | Aug 26, 2015 | Cultural Character, Frontier Faces, Masonville/Buckhorn Valley, Mining/Quarry Towns
“I often wonder how I could have gone through all I did. How tired sometimes after a hard day’s work. I was so tired I couldn’t pull the blanket over me before I had a little rest. “ — Carolina Hansson Peterson The pioneer life was hard....
by Meg Dunn | Apr 7, 2015 | Frontier Faces, Historic Landmarks, Laporte / Bellvue, Mining/Quarry Towns
My image of the early pioneers probably hails more from Little House on the Prairie than reality. I imagine a young couple, with two or three small children, trundling across the plains towards Colorado in a covered wagon with a few horses, a cow, some chickens, and a...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 16, 2014 | Book Reviews, Fort Collins, Frontier Faces, Mining/Quarry Towns
“I was born in Colorado when I was four years old.” So begins Hugo Evon Frey’s telling of his childhood growing up in Larimer County, Colorado. The son of Swedish immigrants Hans (Henry) and Ingrid, Hugo identified so strongly with his identity as...
