Duane Vandenbusche

Duane Vandenbusche has been a professor of history at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison since 1962 and is the longest-serving university faculty member in Colorado history. He is the author of 11 books on the Gunnison country and Western Colorado. A lifelong Lake City resident, author Grant Houston cofounded Hinsdale County Historical Society in 1973 and was among loyal history buffs who established Lake City's first museum, Hinsdale County Museum, in 1975. He has owned and edited...See more

Duane Vandenbusche has been a professor of history at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison since 1962 and is the longest-serving university faculty member in Colorado history. He is the author of 11 books on the Gunnison country and Western Colorado. A lifelong Lake City resident, author Grant Houston cofounded Hinsdale County Historical Society in 1973 and was among loyal history buffs who established Lake City's first museum, Hinsdale County Museum, in 1975. He has owned and edited the weekly Lake City Silver World newspaper since its founding in 1978. He is the author of a number of books on various aspects of Lake City history, the first of which, Lake City Reflections, was published in 1976. See less