Based on actual events that took place in 1906, three women fly in the face of tradition to set up their own stock exchange

Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange (Women of the West/Sybil Downing)

Literature & Fiction

Downing, Sybil

United States

Forge

Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange

Genre Fiction

"A provocative reminder of how hard American women had to fight for their rights. . . . Well-researched and elegantly written, this powerful narrative should be read by everyone, women and men."--Kate Lehrer, author of Confessions of a Bigamist
 ". . . a gripping story that brings history to life."--Margaret Coel, author of The Drowning Man
 The year is 1918. The issue is passing the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Kate Brennan, a sheltered upper-class college graduate, is mistakenly arrested when she goes to the aid of suffragists being attacked in front of the White House during a peaceful rally. Galvanized by her fourteen-day sentence in the Occoquan workhouse, she becomes a passionate supporter of the National Woman's Party.

The Vote: A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

A well-rounded biography of Patterson (1840-1916), a prominent and progressive Democratic, advocate for Colorado, and defender of unpopular causes such as organized labor and freedom of the press, written by his great-granddaughter, an author and Chairperson of the Colorado State Board of Education. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Tom Patterson: Colorado Crusader for Change

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Robert E.

Historical

Univ Pr of Colorado

Alex MacFarlane, a widowed lawyer, decides to represent a striker who had tried to save her husband's life ten years before, despite the fact that her father's firm represents the mine owners

Fire in the Hole (Women's West Series)

The award-winning Fire in the Hole is the tale of a young widowed lawyer swept up in the violence of the famous Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914 known to history as the Ludlow Massacre. Opposed by the coal companies, the union, Wall Street, and the federal government, Alex hatches a scheme involving the president to overturn martial law and settle the strike. A gripping tale of a woman who dares to go beyond the conventions of the day to find freedom and justice amid a power struggle so terrifying it would wrench the nation's conscience for decades.

Fire in the Hole (The Women's West)

University Press of Colorado

Out of the ashes of disillusionment following World War I, the Ku Klux Klan rose to new heights, its four million members spreading racial and religious hatred across the nation. Outside of the South, Colorado was one of the Klan's strongest enclaves. On a hot June day in 1922, the Grand Dragon of Colorado's Ku Klux Klan holds a press conference in Denver's most elegant hotel, announcing that the Klan intends to recall the popular district attorney and replace him with one of its own members. To the Grand Dragon's dismay, the only person who attends is Liz O'Brien, a smart, determined, and independent-minded reporter from the Denver Post. Her editor dismisses the story as unimportant, but when Liz stumbles upon a murder in the Denver slums, she suspects that the Klan is involved. Hampered by a police force riddled with corruption, district attorney Phil van Cise struggles in vain to produce the killer. Liz becomes convinced that Van Cise's recall will unleash Klan rule across Colorado. Armed only with the victim's name, she races against time to uncover the evidence that will lead to the killer and stop the growing wave of terror.

The Binding Oath

Happy Harvest (Colorado Heritage 2)

Wilson, Robert F.

Barker, Jane Valentine

Diggs, Dian

Children's Books

Downing-Barker Books

Magic Mystery and Monsters (Colorado Heritage Series, Book 6)

Pruett Pub. Co

Four stories depict life in late 19th-century Colorado.

Beauty in the Rockies (Book 10)

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