BIG PIVOTS: What exactly is Nebraska’s dispute with Colorado about?

BIG PIVOTS: What exactly is Nebraska’s dispute with Colorado about?

Mark Twain in July 1861 traveled through the northeast corner of what was then Colorado Territory, stopping briefly at a place called Overland City. It’s now called Julesburg. It lies along the South Platte River no more than three or four miles from the Nebraska border. After briefly serving in the Civil War, the young fellow was on his way to the gold mining riches of the Sierra Nevada. In “Roughing It,” his later recounting of that and other …