A wonderful field for the novelist : Hamlin Garland's forgotten tour of Colorado / Virgil Mathes and Gary Scharnhorst -- 'Lectric fluid at the tips of his fingers : Lee J. Kelim and the Loveland Light, Heat, & Power Company / Adam Thomas -- "Save your rags!" : paper-making comes to the Rocky Mountains / Ginny Kilander -- Monuments of permanent achievement : the WPA buildings of Southeastern Colorado / Jacqui Ainley-Conley.

Get an inside look at Colorado's rich history, from the time of early American Indians to the Colorado Gold Rush to today. This engaging social studies book is four chapters, covering major events, people, and time periods in Colorado history. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Colorado's History covers the early history of American Indians in Colorado through the exploration of the...

Colorado History

Experience Colorado with this new, enlarged edition of A COLORADO HISTORY. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource have led readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed-and how it has stayed the same. From the arrival of Paleo-Indians in the Mesa Verde region to the fast pace of the twenty-first century, A COLORADO HISTORY covers the political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues, along with the fascinating...

Bold Women in Colorado History shares the stories of ten Centennial State women, among them Clara Brown, a former slave who ventured west and remade herself into a respected entrepreneur, Chipeta, a Kiowa Apache woman adopted into the Ute tribe, who helped negotiate for peace between her people and the white outsiders, and Dr. Justina Ford, who overcame both racial and gender prejudice to become the first black female physician in the state. Perfect...

Tells the stories of the prominent women in Colorado's first 100 years, who are depicted on the wallhanging entitled Women's gold, which hangs in the state capitol.

Short stories about significant events and people in Colorado history from the early explorers to the settlement of the state.

"'Everyone was moving to Denver, which was mushrooming all over the prairie and giving every evidence of becoming a metropolis of real proportion." So recalls Elizabeth Young of her childhood on Colfax Avenue. Her youth ran parallel to that of her hometown: She grew up in the 1890s, in the midst of Denver's rapid metamorphosis from frontier town to modern city. Young's memoir provides glimpses of the people and events of this era, along with the adventuresome...

Cover title varies: The Westerners brand book; The Denver Westerners brand book; The Denver brand book. Vol.32 issued as: The Denver Westerners golden anniversary Brand book: a collection of papers prsented before the Denver Posse of the Westerners from 1975 through 1994.