Presenter Bios

Don C. Headlee has been a historical interpreter for twenty-eight years. For twenty of those years, he has interpreted the role of the Dr. Edward Hempstead, the first resident doctor in Colorado and the physician at Bent's Old Fort. Throughout the past four years, he was involved in interpreting the bicentennial commemorations of the Lewis and Clark and Zebulon M. Pike explorations of the Louisiana Purchase. Mr. Headlee is a retired teacher from Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County and has worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers at John Martin Reservoir as a park ranger for the past nine years where one of his main duties is to present interpretive program. Mr. Headlee was a presenter at the “To Spare No Pains,” Zebulon Montgomery Pike and His 1806-1807 Southwest Expedition symposium and his paper, "Pike's Southwestern Expedition: Outfitted or Illfated?" appears in the symposium proceedings.