CCM: Did you attend college? If so, where? VS: After attending school in New England, where regional history is pretty hard to escape, I headed west to Oberlin College, where I majored in history and discovered the fun of examining the often misleading minutiae that reveal what really happened. When I moved to Colorado in 1954, the same curiosity and tendency to pry came with me in the American West, and I also got to enjoy the great scenery and some adventures besides. CCM: Have you ever worked as a newspaper or magazine journalist? VS: To set the record ...