Charles Boettcher returned from Europe with sugar beet seeds and found the plains were perfect for growing them. They would become one of Colorado's most important crops, and would also attract workers from many backgrounds: Mexican nationals, European immigrants -- even German prisoners of war during WWII.

Ride into the "bloody grass" battlefields of the Old West's longest feud over grazing and water rights and witness the gunfights, court cases, and massacres that gave rise to the classic American contest of cowboy versus sheepman.

Discover the rare and fragile "WIckiup" shelters that reveal the ways the Ute people lived and traveled across Colorado from prehistory to the present day.

Ever since Western settlers dreamed of deserts in bloom, men have chased the mirage of more water than these arid lands can provide. "Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting" describes the urgent struggle every generation of Coloradans faces to control this fleeting resource-creating hydrodynamic history through structures that can propel water to run uphill toward money, and power.