Steve Grinstead

Managing Editor

Steve Grinstead is the managing editor at History Colorado and the editor of The Colorado Magazine. He is the co-editor of the 2004 anthology Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing and the co-author of Walking Into Colorado's Past: 50 Front Range History Hikes, winner of the 2007 Colorado Book Award for Nonfiction.

Photo of Steve Grinstead, author and managing editor of The Colorado Magazine. This is a close up photo of Steve. He has short, light brown hair, beard, and mustache. He is wearing a blue plaid collared shirt, gray tortoise shell glasses, and is smiling kindly.
Steve Grinstead

Written by Steve Grinstead

  • Photo of a man standing on the front hitch of a wooden covered wagon that is outdoors, surrounded by green shrubs and trees. He is wearing brightly colored shoes, blue jeans, and a white flat cap. His casual, rugby-style shirt represents the American flag: the top half of the shirt is blue with white stars, while the bottom half is red and white vertical stripes, and the collar is white. He is leaning his left elbow on the wagon and he is looking at the camera.

    One Flew West

    When Ken Kesey described fictional southeastern Colorado settings and characters in one of his novels, he could rely largely on his own memory. The author, who lived in Oregon for nearly all of his life, was born in the town of La Junta, Colorado, in the days of the Dust Bowl.

  • Photo of author Derek R. Everett, standing next to a sculpture of Mike the Headless Chicken, located in the town of Fruita, Colorado. The sculpture is made of reclaimed metal objects, such as a horseshoe, an axe, bolts, etcetera. It is a sunny day, with blue skies overhead, and the author is smiling, wearing a white Colorado baseball jersey with red lettering, and khaki pants.

    Taking Colorado Day by Day

    In March of 2020, History Colorado and the University Press of Colorado published a new kind of book about Colorado’s past: Colorado Day by Day. In it, author Derek R. Everett, who teaches history at both Metropolitan State University of Denver and Colorado State University, looks at a key piece of Colorado’s past for every day of the year—366 days in all.

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    A Way of Creating Meaning: A Conversation with Rachel McLean Sailor

    Every other year, History Colorado gives the Barbara Sudler Award for the best work of nonfiction on a western subject by a female author. Since we’ve begun reading the nominees for this year’s award, we took the opportunity to chat with the winner of the last round, Rachel McLean Sailor, an assistant professor of art history at the University of Wyoming and the author of Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West, published by the University of New Mexico Press. A shorter version of this interview appears in Colorado Heritage.