Lost Highways Presents: The Order of Death
As we get to work making Season 3 of Lost Highways, we wanted to share a podcast we think our listeners would love as much as we do. This is Episode 2...
Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains
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Lost Highways from History Colorado explores stories about Colorado and the American West--overlooked stories about how we got to now and how our region has shaped the world. Hosts Noel Black and Tyler Hill take listeners well beyond the “mountains and marijuana” stereotypes to uncover stories about their home state they can’t believe they never heard. Lost Highways is presented by the Sturm Family Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Miseducation of Freddie Freak
Juan Federico Miguel Arguello Trujillo lost his name, his language, and his culture at a Catholic school in Trinidad, Colorado in the 1940s. When he f...
Going Back to Trinidad
On this episode, how Trinidad, Colorado -- an iconic Western mining town along the old Santa Fe trail on the New Mexico border -- became the unlikely ...
[Update] "Maybe They Should Call it the Kansas Flu"
As the Covid-19 Pandemic rages on, we update this episode about what we can learn from the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu outbreak in Colorado. In particular, ...
Tuned in Dropouts
In 1970, a man named Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche came to the US with the mission of teaching Tibetan Buddhism to Westerners. He enthralled hippies across...
[UPDATE] Mascots, Mask Off
As people across the country celebrate Thanksgiving, we're re-broadcasting one of our more popular episodes from Season 1 in light of current events. ...
A Tale of Two Communes
Noel and Tyler look back at intentional artist communities Drop City and Libre to understand why one thrived while the other died, and what these two ...
[ICYMI] Snake, Rattle, and Roll
This is a re-release of an episode we published early due to the COVID-19 quarantine. We're posting it again in case you missed it the first time, and...
Back Alleys and Backpages
Noel and Tyler explore the complicated stories of sex workers in Denver in the late 1800s by hearing from contemporary sex workers about their own exp...
[ICYMI] Ride or Die
This is a re-release of an episode that we published early due to the COVID-19 quarantine. We're posting it again in case you missed it the first time...