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Pub. Date
2004
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"'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...
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Pub. Date
2006
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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.
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Denver from the bottom up a people's history of early Colorado volume ; 3; Variation: Goodstein, Phil H.; Denver from the bottom up : a people's history of early Colorado ;; 3
Pub. Date
2006
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Great lives in colorado history volume 3
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Looks at the life and accomplishments of the Southern Arapaho chief who attempted to find a way to work with the U.S. government and live in harmony with white settlers, in spite of repeated setbacks.
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2011
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"Charles Boettcher was born in Germany in 1852 who came to America to join his older brother in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1869. Charles opened a series of hardware stores in the Colorado Territory and became wealthy. He moved from Leadville to Denver where he retired in 1900. Energetic and entrepreneurial, Charles returned to work and started the Great Western Sugar Company and the Portland Cement Factory. In 1937, Charles created the Boettcher Foundation...
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Pub. Date
2011
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"Clara Brown was born a slave in Virginia around 1800.She endured separation and loss as her husband and children were sold away. In 1856, the slave owner died and Clara was granted freedom papers. In 1859, Clara earned her passage west to Colorado by cooking and doing laundry for the wagon train. She worked first as a cook in Denver and then started a successful laundry business in Central City. As she gained financial security, Clara began to search...
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