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The Colorado River water touches seven states and Mexico and is 1,450 miles long – the sixth longest in the nation according to river conservation organization American Rivers. More than a ...

With no natural geographic feature such as river, mountain ridge or seacoast ... will present vignettes of the people whose work to map Colorado opened a greater awareness of the state’s overall ...