Talk:History of Colorado

Mexico??

How can this entry be about the history of Colorado and nowhere does it mention that it once belonged to Mexico. I think a critical part of the "history" of the State is that it was taken by the US when it won the US-Mexico war in the mid 1800's together with much of the Southwest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.250.118.63 (talk) 03:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

Although Spainish cavalry and Mexican traders frequently passed through what is now the State of Colorado, the settlers of Nuevo Méjico made no attempt to settle north of the 37th parallel north until 1851. Although Hispanic settlers from New Mexico were the first to settle the future State of Colorado, the Government of Mexico never exercised control over the future State of Colorado beyond reiterating the territorial claims of the Kingdom of Spain. The Republic of Texas also claimed territory in what is now Colorado and Wyoming, but there is no evidence of any Texian setting foot in this area prior to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. --Buaidh (talk) 14:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

" ... to protect miners"?! (1894)

I dispute the remark, in section ‘Colorado becomes a state’: “Governor Waite is also noted as one of the few elected officials ever to call out the national guard to protect miners ...”. See, until further notice, the discussion over this question in article Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 Corriebertus (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

False alarm: May/June 1894 the state militia (predecessor of the Colorado National Guard) is called in a second time, this time more or less to protect miners from mineowners. Corriebertus (talk) 15:16, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Twenty-first century; Marijuana Tax Reports

The marijuana section of the Twenty-first century does little to show how much Colorado actually makes a year or how much it has made over the past decade. I offer up two sentences to add to the already brief paragraph about weed sales in Colorado. I would just add them myself, but as just a visitor, I think it would be rude to just slap my random edit on the page.

Colorado Marijuana Tax Reports show that over the past ten years, Colorado has made a total of $2,746,325,476. With a yearly average amounting to $221,760,599.https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data/marijuana-tax-reports 73.228.222.112 (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Missing content

• Treaty of Fort Wise
• Statehood lobbying
• Formation of the school system
• Formation of the univeristy system
• Early economics. There is some data on the price of a bag of flour over time. It gets really bad at one point but I do not remember the specifics off the top of my head.

Czarking0 (talk) 05:24, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Indigenous History

Should this page cover pre-european history of the area? Colorado has a very diverse and extensive pre-Columbian history, should that not be included? Jessemishell (talk) 05:39, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

That is not Colorado. This is not the history of everything that occurred in that geograhic area. The Utes (for example) that lived in the same area beforehand are not Coloradoans. They did not consider it to be Colorado. There is no unified shared history of the various groups that lived in the area prior to the white settlers. Readers who come looking for the history of Colorado are generally looking for the history of the hispanic and white settlers. Readers who come looking for indigenous history will be satisfied with Ute people, Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, and several more pages. Czarking0 (talk) 00:47, 19 August 2026 (UTC)