Writing Colorado This will be a year-long series, featuring twelve writers whose books reveal the essential character of this state we call home. Colorado’s landscapes and lifescapes inspired many writers in the last two and a half centuries. Some just passed through; some came and stayed; some did not become writers until they lived here awhile. Their words, living long after they disappear, speak of yesterday’s Colorado that we might more clearly understand the Colorado of today. January - Sylvestre Velez de Escalante The Dominguez-Escalante Journal Date: 1776 (1976 bicentennial annotated version translated by Angelino Chavez and edited by Ted J. Warner)