Fifty for 150: Depression-era Colorado closes its border with New Mexico in 1936
It’s the stuff of science fiction, like the future dystopia envisioned in Colorado author Paolo Bacigalupi’s 2015 thriller “The Water Knife”: Western states militarizing their borders and turning on each other in a time of crisis. In 1936, as the Great Depression reached its lowest lows in Colorado, it really happened, albeit briefly. Gov. Edwin […
By: Chase Woodruff
Outlets: Colorado Newsline
Published: July 9, 2026
Words: 807
Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago
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