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Originally published on January 20, 2016 By Stephanie Wolf��

����ֱ�� has a new state historian, Patricia Nelson Limerick. That’s not the only hat she wears. She’s also a history professor at the University of ����ֱ�� Boulder. And she’s faculty director and chairwoman of the school’s Center for the American West.����

CPR News posed this question to Limerick: “What is the least understood aspect of ����ֱ�� history?” She said she would like to shed more light on the continued significance of American Indians: “The removal process was such that reservations are on the Western Slope and people on the Front Range, who have moved to ����ֱ��, may not realize that indeed some of their neighbors are Indian people, and there’s no more interesting place to look at resource development than the Southern Utes.”����

She spoke with ����ֱ�� Matters host Ryan Warner.��

More pieces of ����ֱ�� history Limerick wants you to know about:��

• The rural/urban relationship in ����ֱ��: “We can’t understand the past and we can’t understand the present without [understanding] how intertwined rural areas and urban areas are.”��

• The long story between the American West, Spain and Mexico: “Whenever people in our state have a conversation about the border… that border has moved around. It wasn’t carved into the rock of the Southwest. Parts of ����ֱ�� had colonization going on from Spain and Mexico before the Anglos get into the picture.”��

• The importance of bureaucrats throughout history: “It’s easy for people to say, ‘Oh this is so tiresome.’ … But those are really interesting people and really interesting jobs. The effects of those jobs ripple into many lives.”��

• The literary heritage of ����ֱ��: “There is a complicated literary tradition, not only of people who lived in ����ֱ��, but of people who passed through — like [19th-century British writer] Isabella Bird. She writes wonderful things about ����ֱ��, and they are not just about the beauty of the landscape. Some of them are about the complexities of human nature.”��

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