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Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mayor: John Suthers (to 2019)2010 census population (rank): 416,427 (41); % change: 28.4; Male: 203,944 (49.0%); Female: 212,483 (51.0%); White: 328,326 (78.8%); Black: 26,253 (6.3%); American Indian…

Guggenheim

(Encyclopedia) GuggenheimGuggenheimg&oobreve;gˈənhīm [key], family of American industrialists and philanthropists. Meyer Guggenheim, 1828–1905, b. Aargau canton, Switzerland, emigrated (1847) to…

Goodnight, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Goodnight, Charles, 1836–1929, Texas cattleman, b. Macoupin co., Ill. He went to Texas in 1846, where he joined the Texas Rangers and became a noted scout and Indian fighter. He was…

Wieman, Carl Edwin

(Encyclopedia) Wieman, Carl Edwin, 1951–, American physicist, b. Corvallis, Oreg., Ph.D. Stanford, 1977. He was a professor at the Univ. of Colorado from 1984 to 2006. In 2007, he joined the Univ. of…

Arapaho

(Encyclopedia) ArapahoArapahoərăpˈəhō [key], Native North Americans of the Plains whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American…

Garden of the Gods

(Encyclopedia) Garden of the Gods, park, 770 acres (312 hectares), central Colo., near Colorado Springs; noted for its unusual, multicolored rock formations. Narrow-crested sandstone hills and ridges…

Longmont

(Encyclopedia) Longmont, city (1990 pop. 51,555), Boulder co., N Colo.; inc. 1885. It is a trade and processing center for a rich farm area irrigated by the Colorado–Big Thompson project. Vitamins,…

Leadville

(Encyclopedia) LeadvilleLeadvillelĕdˈvĭl [key], mining city (1990 pop. 2,629), alt. c.10,200 ft (3,110 m), seat of Lake co., central Colo., near the headwaters of the Arkansas River, in the Rocky Mts…

The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

The River Merchants Wife: A LetterWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Played I about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You…