Tunneling to the Wild Side
One of the perks of being a novelist is that I can go exploring and call it research. I need to research a lot of things. For a decade, I drove past Old Colorado City, on the west end of Colorado Springs as part of my daily commute. Cute shops in historic buildings line a few blocks in the center of town. I discovered some fun historic tidbits. First of all, it wasn amed for the wrong river. I thought it had been named for the state, but the town was founded before Colorado a