Colorado Forts ─ Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier

Throughout the 1800s,explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through thetowering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization.These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps andminiature citadels that would shape the state of Colorado for generations tocome. As the settlers struggled to survive desperate times, economicdepressions and bloody wars, some of these historic outposts would becomeColorado’s cities, schools, hospitals and museums, while others would sink backinto the mud from which they came. Join author Jolie Anderson Gallagher as shechronicles the stories of the forts and the early explorers, fur trappers,soldiers and wives who constructed and occupied them.