Where bison roam and human history was rewritten: Colorado’s Soapstone Prairie

The people overseeing a sprawling place of intrigue near Colorado’s northern border have a saying about it.

“We like to say Soapstone will blow you away,” Zoë Shark says. “That has a couple different meanings to it.”

The views are one thing at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area: The Mummy Range looms in one direction, rolling foothills and canyons in another, and all around the sky seems to mingle with the wavy canvas decorated by the area’s white, namesake rock…

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