Dr. Heisel is writing a history of the telephone’s dark side. Exactly 150 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first phone call. “Come here,” he shouted into the fuzzy, one-way phone line ...

That’s exactly what happens when most Coloradans learn about Bent’s Old Fort near La Junta. While everyone’s busy fighting for parking spots at Mesa Verde or standing in line at Garden of the Gods, ...