Without Gen. William Jackson Palmer, Pueblo may have never earned the moniker, “Pittsburgh of the West.” Palmer, born Sept. 17, 1836 to a Quaker family in Delaware, arrived in Colorado in 1869 ...

William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs, is usually portrayed as a staid, cultured, graying patrician. But Terrell Garren knows a different Palmer, one he discovered while trying to ...

William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs, is usually portrayed as a staid, cultured, graying patrician. But Terrell Garren knows a different Palmer, one he discovered while trying to ...

As a part of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry’s monthly lecture series, Leah Davis Witherow — curator of history at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum — will be ...

William Jackson Palmer. Leah Davis-Witherow talked about William Jackson Palmer, who was the founder of Colorado Springs and largely responsible for the city’s early growth.

A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter here at The Gazette, Dave Philipps, wrote in this week to remind us that the founder of Colorado Springs, William Jackson Palmer, was a riot-inciting ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — There is a lot to learn about the history of Colorado Springs and its founder General William Jackson Palmer at the COS@150 exhibit at the Pioneers Museum, but a great way to ...

New artifacts, found in an excavation near Glen Eyrie, will be on display in the new permanent exhibit "Evidence: Finding the Facts About General William Jackson Palmer." ...

This is for all the Gen. William Jackson Palmer and Glen Eyrie fans. Rocky Mountain PBS’ original history series “Colorado Experience” will explore Palmer's English Tudor-style castle in an ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- This Saturday, June 19, the bronze equestrian statue of General William Jackson Palmer at the intersection of Nevada and Platte avenues will receive routine ...

William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs, is usually portrayed as a staid, cultured, graying patrician. But Terrell Garren knows a different Palmer, one he discovered while trying to ...