History Colorado’s Lost Highways podcast recently featured my article, A Lynching in Gothic, Colorado?. You can listen to the episode, put together by Blake Pfeil, at: https://pod.link/1477656916/episode/78f0ec1c4599c869782eabecd9c2cfc0

How did the mountains get so white? Not snow, but people. It wasn’t always so. And on this episode we look at a particular history of violence toward Chinese immigrants and Indigenous communities in one of Colorado’s scenic mountain towns. We’ll examine how it echoes in the present with increased violence toward Asian communities that began during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. How do we reconcile unsettling new facts with who we believe we are now? And how has the history of colonization and the marketing of whiteness in the Rocky Mountains excluded so many communities, including its original inhabitants?