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Denver
An Archaeological History
Häftad, 2009
476 kr
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A vivid account of the prehistory and history of Denver as revealed in its archaeological record, Denver: An Archaeological History invites us to imagine Denver as it once was.Around 12,000 B.C., groups of leather-clad Paleoindians passed through the juncture of the South Platte River and Cherry …
Ores to Metals
The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979, is now back in print with a new preface by the author. Packed with fascinating statistics and mining data, Ores to Metals details the people, technologies, and business decisions that have shaped the …
Beast
Av Benjamin B. Lindsey, Harvey J. O'Higgins
Häftad, 2009
345 kr
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Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey’s exposé of big business’s influence on Colorado and Denver politics, a best seller when it was originally published in 1911, is now back in print. The Beast reveals the plight of working-class Denver citizens—in particular those Denver youths who ended up in Lindsey’s …
Trail of Gold and Silver
Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
Av D Smith
Häftad, 2011
365 kr
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In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and …
Colorado Women
A History
Häftad, 2013
375 kr
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Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. …
Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park
From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun
Häftad, 2016
476 kr
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Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park details the history of Lakeside, exploring how it has managed to remain in business for more than a century (something fewer than thirty amusement parks have accomplished) and offers a unique view on larger changes in society and the amusement park industry itself. …
Last Stand of the Pack
Critical Edition
Av Arthur Carhart, Andrew Gulliford m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
365 kr
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This critical edition explores the past and future of wolves in Colorado. Originally published in 1929, The Last Stand of the Pack is a historical account of the extermination of what were then believed to be the last wolves in Colorado. Arthur H. Carhart and Stanley P. Young describe the wolves’ …
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks: or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection
by Mary Dartt
Av Julie McCown
Häftad, 2021
400 kr
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American naturalist and taxidermist Martha Maxwell became famous in the 1870s for her skill and expertise in collecting and preserving specimens of Colorado’s wildlife but is virtually unknown today. On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, written in 1879 by Maxwell’s half-sister Mary Dartt, provides a …
Bound by Steel and Stone
The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Häftad, 2022
499 kr
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Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier. In it, J. Bradford Bowers weaves a tale of reinvention against the backdrop of the newly settled West, showing how the …
Dream of Justice
The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools
Av Pat Pascoe
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with members of the legal community, parents, and students, as well as extensive institutional …
Colorado Women in World War II
Häftad, 2023
335 kr
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Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that its long arm would reach into the lives of all Americans. And reach it did. Colorado women from …
Colorado's Japanese Americans
From 1886 to the Present
Häftad, 2005
362 kr
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In Colorado's Japanese Americans, renowned journalist and author Bill Hosokawa pens the first history of this significant minority in the Centennial State. From 1886, when the young aristocrat Matsudaira Tadaatsu settled in Denver, to today, when Colorado boasts a population of more than 11,000 …
Tenderfoot in Colorado
Häftad, 2008
364 kr
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Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R. B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with $300 in his pockets.He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful …
Dr. Charles David Spivak
A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement
Inbunden, 2009
567 kr
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Part biography, part medical history, and part study of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century America, Jeanne Abrams's book tells the story of Dr. Charles David Spivak - a Jewish immigrant from Russia who became one of the leaders of the American Tuberculosis Movement.Born in Russia in 1861, Spivak …
Helen Ring Robinson
Colorado Senator and Suffragist
Av Pat Pascoe
Häftad, 2013
323 kr
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Calling herself "the housewife of the senate," Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1917, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of women, children, and workers' rights and education during a …
Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts
Av Thomas J. Noel, Nicholas Wharton
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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A Timberline BookDenver Landmarks and Historic Districts, Second Edition is the newest, most thorough guide to Denver’s 51 historic districts and more than 331 individually landmarked properties. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates Denver’s oldest banks, churches, clubs, hotels, libraries, …
History of the Death Penalty in Colorado
Inbunden, 2017
567 kr
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In The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado, noted death penalty scholar Michael Radelet chronicles the details of each capital punishment trial and execution that has taken place in Colorado since 1859. The book describes the debates and struggles that Coloradans have had over the use of the …
Frank Mechau
Artist of Colorado
Av Cile M. Bach
Inbunden, 2016
537 kr
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There are stories scattered throughout human history of rare individuals of remarkable talent, energy, and promise whose lives are unexpectedly and tragically cut short. Artist Frank Mechau was one of these. His artistic career spanned only twenty years—1926 to 1946—but in the course of those years …
Season of Terror
The Espinosas in Central Colorado, MarchOctober 1863
Häftad, 2018
347 kr
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Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio …
Dream of Justice
The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools
Av Pat Pascoe
Inbunden, 2022
376 kr
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A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with members of the legal community, parents, and students, as well as extensive institutional …
Brooke at the Bar
Inside Our Legal System
Inbunden, 2024
380 kr
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Brooke at the Bar is a candid, lively, and sometimes humorous autobiography by Brooke Wunnicke, the first woman to be a trial and appellate attorney in Wyoming and who went on to become a legal legend in Colorado. In conversational writing, Brooke provides insights from a lawyer, mentor, and …
