Gillian Coldsnow

In Colorado, there was a man, who became a town, which became a tourist attraction and movie star of sorts. And now: “Buckskin Joe” is in private hands. “Buckskin Joe” was one of the early prospectors near Hoosier Pass in the 1860s. Miners used his name for a tent city that sprang up, and “Buckskin Joe” the town grew: saloons, hotels, a courthouse. It was the seat of Park County for a while. Then the gold ran out. Cut to the 1950s: the town re-born as a theme park.

Colorado Postcards are snapshots of our colorful state in sound. They give brief insights into our people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado. Currently airing postcards:

San Bruno, CA, 29 April 1942: American internees in mess hall line at Tanforan Assembly Center San Bruno, Calif. Every September more than a million people go to the Washington State Fair — oblivious that the Puyallup fairgrounds site was where people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII. It was one of 16 so-called “assembly centers” in California, Oregon, Washington and a small sliver of Arizona.