Local Author Book Talk with Professor Brad Bowers

Local Author Book Talk with Professor Brad Bowers

The area that became Pueblo West has a long history, one that most people are unaware. The town of Swallows is well known, but there are stories of this region that have gone untold until now. Across the land bounded by today’s Highway 50, Swallows Road, Purcell Boulevard, and the Arkansas River, schemers and dreamers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, including one of early Colorado’s most famous names, worked towards bringing settlement and agriculture to this sparely populated area west of Pueblo. These schemes encompassed building a massive irrigation project, a railroad, and even an orchard town in a real-estate development scheme similar to what Robert McCulloch would later use to build Pueblo West. Taken from his new book, Bound by Steel and Stone: The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960, Professor Bowers will speak on the history of early business development in the Pueblo West area.

A long-time resident of Colorado, Brad Bowers is a professor of history at Pueblo Community College. Bound by Steel and Stone: The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960 is his first book.

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