Since January, over eighteen thousand new entries have been added to the Historical Records Database at the Colorado State Archives Web site:

  • Bar Admission Files (1899-1950). 7066 names.
  • Mesa County Motor Vehicle Licenses (1913-1917). 3303 names.
  • Spanish-American War Colorado Volunteers (1898-1899). 1439 names.
  • Docked* Horse Register (1899-1907). 59 names, all Arapahoe County.
  • Master and Journeyman Horseshoers (1897-1920). 228 names, all Arapahoe County.
  • Rio Grande County Teacher Certificate Applications (1874 -1893). 187 names.
  • Gilpin County District Court Filings (1874 -1882). 38 names.
  • Dolores County Court Cases (1881 - 1953). 1496 names.
  • Denver War Risk Insurance Applications (1914 -1917). 5134 names.

In addition, new images have been added to the Digital Records collection, including 123 pages of transcripts from the Alfred Packer Supreme Court Case. Click on “Social Concerns.”

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* Docking a horse meant to cut short the fleshy part of its tail. When this practice became illegal by Colorado statute in 1898, such horses had to be registered in the local county clerk’s office.