RBC | Robert Haag, in his book about the early years of Rangely, Colorado, references an earthquake in 1882. In Haag’s account, Charles Porter Hill and Joseph Studer had arrived at the White River and had camped for the night just upstream of Douglas Creek. Today it is known as Rangely.
The two men were scouting out land in White River Valley where the Utes had been forced out. Hill kept a diary and described…