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What brought so many white settlers to Colorado?
ByFrans Lambrechtsen May 19, 2019July 9, 2026

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What led so many white settlers to come to Colorado? It was mainly one thing: Gold. The area of North America that we now call Colorado is old. If you’re in the Denver area, the evidence of that is easy to see. Look west and what do you see? Mountains. Not just any mountains, but…

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Arizona | People

Who was Geronimo and why was he famous?
ByFrans Lambrechtsen April 28, 2019July 7, 2026

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Who was Geronimo? Geronimo was born in June 16, 1829, near Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico (about 200 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona). He was the grandson of Mahko, a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people. The name given to him at birth was: Goyaale. That name meant: “the one who yawns.” Geronimo in…

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New Mexico

Surprising History: Who Were the First Europeans to Reach the American West?
ByFrans Lambrechtsen April 1, 2019July 8, 2026

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After the Renaissance, the Portuguese and the Spanish competed for discovery of the “New World.”

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