Everyone in Fort Collins knew Annie, the "railroad dog." In 1934 several Colorado & Southern Railway crew members discovered a sick, pregnant, mixed-breed mutt in a blacksmith shop in the town of Timnath. The crewmen took the dog back to the C&S freight depot in Fort Collins, where they nursed her back to health. After Annie recovered and delivered her puppies, she remained with her rescuers.
During the summer of 2001, archaeologists renewed excavations at Chance Gulch, a late Paleoindian campsite buried below the surface of an 8000-foot-high plateau two-and-a-half miles from Gunnison. Supported by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Western State College (WSC), work there began in 1999 when a crew of volunteers from Colorado and Arizona excavated three small test pits at the site.