Jason L. Hanson is the chief creative officer and director of interpretation and research at History Colorado. Some of his previous articles for The Colorado Magazine include “Colorado Is My Classroom: What Earlier Pandemics Can Teach Us About School” (2020), “The First Draft: Colorado History Over a Few Beers” (2019), “Women’s Work in Utopia: How the Women of the Colorado Cooperative Company Sought Utopia by Doing What They’d Always Done” (2016), “Brewers Want the Best: Growing a Brewing Industry in the Centennial State” (2015). He is also the author of Game Changers: 100 Years of Negro League Baseball (History Colorado, 2020) and coauthor of A Ditch in Time: The City, The West, and Water with Patty Limerick (Fulcrum Publishing, 2012).