Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains Podcast
1) Slavery in the South(west)
It’s often said that slavery is America’s original sin. But the kind of slavery most of us learn about in history class—the brutal, dehumanizing enslavement of Black people in the Southern states—wasn...Show More
2) How Do You Solve A Problem Like Columbus
A monument to Christopher Columbus, sitting in the middle of Pueblo, Colorado has been dividing the town for years. To the large population of Italian-Americans whose ancestors came to Pueblo around t...Show More
3) Set in Stone
Since the racial justice protests of 2020, when most people think of monuments being torn down, they think of confederate statues in the south being toppled from their pedestals. But a Civil War monum...Show More
4) The Unfairer Sex
On this episode of Lost Highways, we’ll take a look back at how Title IX’s passage in 1972 inadvertently codified the separation of sports by sex. And while the law opened the door to equal opportunit...Show More
5) Unforgetting Los Seis
On a sleepy summer evening in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974, three young Chicano activists sat in a car at Chautauqua Park at the base of the iconic Flatirons—the giant red sandstone rock formations that...Show More
6) Oral Histories of the Sand Creek Massacre from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Located in Oklahoma
he Sand Creek Massacre was the deadliest day in Colorado history, and it changed Cheyenne and Arapaho people forever. On the morning of November 29, 1864, US troops under the command of Colonel John M...Show More
7) American Gothic
How did the mountains get so white? Not snow, but people. It wasn’t always so. And on this episode we look at a particular history of violence toward Chinese immigrants and Indigenous communities in o...Show More
8) When History Burns
With the new reality of megafires in the West, we take a look at what happens when history itself is destroyed and how we hold on to who and what we are when we lose the artifacts and records that tel...Show More
9) From Sefarad to the San Luis Valley: Crypto-Judaism in the Southwest
Colorado's San Luis Valley is the last place you might expect to find a centuries old lineage of Sephardic Jews. But a rare form of breast cancer and a host of odd traditions, artifacts, and rituals l...Show More
10) Mesa Verde of the Mysteries
For nearly a century-and-a-half, archaeologists have been studying Mesa Verde in hopes of deciphering what happened to the Ancestral Puebloan people who lived and thrived there for so long. For many, ...Show More