The mission of the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University is to perform and facilitate interdisciplinary and collaborative research, education, outreach and dialogue to address the water issues facing the upper Colorado River Basin.

Where the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers meet, so too have the real life stories and myths of the Native Americans, Spanish gold-seekers, French fur traders, white settlers, infamous outlaws, and the many others who have attempted to lay their claim to the region. In Where Rivers Meet, Muriel Marshall returns to western Colorado, the stomping grounds for her previous book, Red Hole in Time, to unearth the rich local lore. More than rural in its appeal,...

Lore from the Colorado frontier.