My first view of Virgil Ernest Christison's Rick Mountain Ranch in 2008. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about writing th...

My great-great-grandfather, Wilburn Christison, formed a mining company with Father Dyer and eight other men in 1864.  In 2006, I sa...

Hutchinson House in 1982 (Photo by Ken Christison)   I've had several people ask exactly how my Christison family is related to the ...

This is the staircase in the old Park County Courthouse in Fairplay where my great-great-grandfather, Wilburn Christison, was the Park ...

If you know about the song I wrote, "Freedom in January," then you know the story of Ernest Christison breaking out of the Buen...

Canon City Record May 19, 1898 Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection I found it! Elizabeth Jane Christison's obituary. Proof that m...

Lewis Christison standing in the background Today is National Miners Day. When I think about my Colorado roots, those roots run d...