Duane Vandenbusche is a Professor of History at Western Colorado University in Gunnison since 1962 and has just been named Colorado’s State Historian, the first to be based outside of the Front Range in its 96-year history. He is the author of 11 books including: “The Gunnison Country,” “Around Monarch Pass,” “Lake City” (with Grant Houston), “A Land Alone: Colorado’s Western Slope,” “The Black Canyon of the Gunnison” (with Grant Houston), “Marble, Colorado: City of Stone” (with Rex Myers), “Western State College: Mountain Mecca,” “Crested Butte,” “Early Days in the Gunnison Country,” “Around the Gunnison Country,” “Lake City Branch of ...
