(Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun) What is a river?

It depends on your point of view. Sun reporters have fanned out along the Arkansas River, from the headwaters near Leadville to the border with Kansas, to learn what the river means to people in the places it runs through. The series begins with Michael Booth’s dispatch from high in the Mosquito Range, where the Arkansas comes to life and almost died.

Previously in this series:

How to treat a river: Reshaping the Arkansas River into a Colorado success after a century of abuse

Cañon City is using the Arkansas River to wash off its “prison town” reputation. Steep obstacles remain.

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T here’s a dirt lot in Pueblo that edges right up to the Arkansas River at the spot where a dam used to be.

For about a year, J

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