Happenings

Saturday, November 1st ~ 5-7PM

Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis
College in Durango, Colorado where he has been awarded the Roger Peters Distinguished
Faculty Award for teaching, research, and service. Gulliford teaches popular courses on
wilderness, national parks, Western history, and environmental history. He is the author of
America’s Country Schools, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions,
and Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, which won the Colorado Book Award. He edited
Preserving Western History, which was voted one of the best books on the Southwest by the
Tucson-Pima County Library. His book Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure
Anthology won the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in the category of nature/
environment and Best Book on Arizona, as well as the Colorado Book Award for best
anthology. Gulliford edited The Last Stand of the Pack: A Critical Edition, about wolves in
Colorado, which was published by the University Press of Colorado.
His book The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes, published by
Texas A&M University Press, was chosen the Outstanding Nonfiction winner for the
Wrangler Western Heritage Awards sponsored by the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It also won the Colorado Book Award for history. His
latest book, Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance from the University of Utah
Press, was a finalist for the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History Award from the
Board of State History at the Utah Historical Society.
Gulliford has had led tours across the West by canoe, raft, horseback, van, cruise
ship, bus/coach, private train, and private jet for the Smithsonian Institution, National
Geographic Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Rocky Mountain Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS), Great Old Broads for Wilderness, History Colorado, Canyon
Country Discovery Center, Treasure Box Tours, and the San Juan Mountains Association.
Dr. Gulliford has received the National Individual Volunteer Award from the U.S.
Forest Service for wilderness education, and a certificate of recognition from the Secretary
of Agriculture for “outstanding contributions to America’s natural and cultural
resources.” For a decade he held a federal appointment to the Southwest Colorado
Resources Advisory Council of the Bureau of Land Management.
Gulliford writes columns about the Southwest for the Durango Herald and the
Cortez Journal. With the Durango Herald column “Gulliford’s Travels” he took 1 st place for
a news column in the Top of the Rockies Journalism Contest sponsored by the Colorado
Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Dr. Gulliford also appears in history
programs for “The Colorado Experience” television series produced by Rocky Mountain
PBS.