In this episode of BackStory, Times podcast producer Anna Coburn takes a field trip with local historians David Primus, Mike Pelletier and Gary Steffens in search of what may be the very first oil well drilled in Colorado west of the Continental Divide — in the Ohio Creek valley of Gunnison County.

Oil in those hills

Backstory is a production of the Gunnison Country Times — presenting audio features that go behind the headlines to tell the human story of life in the Gunnison Valley.

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