Editor’s Column: Pioneering

We pride ourselves in this part of the country on our pioneering spirit. Many of us can trace our family heritage back to well before Colorado became a state in 1876, and some of us even before it was officially a territory.
We’re familiar with the term “pioneer” as someone who went to the frontier, broke new trails, and settled a new region. We’re less familiar, perhaps, with the definition of “pioneer” as a verb:…