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Snowboarding was invented in 1965 by Sherman Poppen by tying two of these items together for his daughters.
What are skiis?
White settlers moved into the area because of mining or the Utes lived in present-day Colorado
What is the Utes lived in present-day Colorado? (for hundreds of years!)
The "Peach capital of Colorado", located in the Grand Valley, and its cool nights make it ideal for growing many fruits
What is Palisade?
This president started the National Park system in the US, including Mesa Verde National Park
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This tribe's lands were all over Colorado prior to the white settlers moving into the area
What is the Ute tribe?
The name of the war that the 10th Mountain Division was training for
What is World War II?
Theodore Roosevelt created Mesa Verde National Park or reservations were created by the Indian Appropriations Act
What is reservations were created by the Indian Appropriations Act? (1851)
History of smelting, located near the previous Aminas City, and home to Fort Lewis University
What is Durango?
The name of the president who the first tunnel through the Continental Divide was named after
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
This neighboring state of Colorado was named after the Native American tribe that was most prominent in Colorado in the early 1800s
What is Utah?
In 1990 an international competition was held in Breckenridge for this sport which helped launch its popularity.
What is snowboarding?
Durango became a city or Denver became a city
What is Denver became a city? (1860)
Former mining town with a lawless reputation, once known as "Slabtown", has Turquoise Lake, and second most populated city in the late 1800s
What is Leadville?
This man's railroad company was building a tunnel for a train which was later converted to an important tunnel carrying water
Who was David Moffat?
Instead of hunting and gathering, the US government expected Native Americans to make a living by doing this on the reservations
What is farming?
The name of the training facility where the 10th Mountain Division learned their skills and trained
What is Camp Hale?
The snowboard was invented in Michigan or the 10th Mountain Division traveling to Italy to fight the Germans
What is the 10th Mountain Division traveling to Italy to fight the Germans? (1945)
The most populated town in the Grand Valley, home to Colorado Mesa University, and its name comes from its location near two rivers joining
What is Grand Junction?
This made Janet Bonnema an unwanted coworker in the digging of the Eisenhower Tunnel but she later won her right to work in court
What is being female?
This intermediate direction (not cardinal direction) in Colorado that the Native American reservations are located today
What is Southwest?
The Camp Hale land was deactivated in 1965 and the land was transferred to this
What is White River National Forest?
The Eisenhower Tunnel finished construction or the Johnson Tunnel finished construction
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel finished construction? (1973)
Hosts world famous ice climbing competitions and music festivals, considered a historical landmark, and has many celebrity residents
What is Telluride?
In 1887 this president signed the Dawes Act which enabled the government to break the Native American reservations into smaller pieces
Who was Grover Cleveland?
This US Government Act in 1887 broke the Native American reservations into smaller pieces which enabled the sale of much of the land to white settlers
What is the Dawes Act?