Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980

Duane A. Smith

University Press of Colorado

A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s

Sacred Trust: The Birth and Development of Fort Lewis College

History

Americas

The history of Colorado is the story of its people, young and old, and of all nationalities. Together they form a rich mosaic of heroes and rascals--the lucky, unfortunate, known, unknown, rich and poor folks who fashioned Colorado's past, forged the present, and laid the groundwork for the future. We are what they were. As Abraham Lincoln observed a year after Colorado gained territorial status, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." 
In Colorado: Our Colorful State, a fourth grade textbook perfectly adaptable for people of all ages, many of these people take a bow upon the stage. Supplemented by drawings, maps, and photographs, the text transports young and older readers from the appearance of the dinosaurs to the coming of the first hunters and gatherers and on to the late twentieth century. 
The builders of Mesa Verde and the Spanish explorers cross the pages. So, too, do the Utes, railroad builders, ranchers, miners, and farmers who, each in their own way, left a heritage. The women--who fought to gain the vote, saved Mesa Verde National Park, homesteaded, and "tamed" the frontier--take their place as well. Finally, the great changes of the twentieth century, and the people who helped bring them about, come into focus as the book closes in on the present. 
Filling a gap in grade school coverage, Colorado: Our Colorful State opens a wide window on all aspects of Colorado's saga, focusing in particular on those various peoples who called Colorado home. It is their story, it is our story.

Colorado: Our Colorful State

Children's Books

Smith, Duane A.

Educational Consultant Kate Shuchter

Kate Shuchter, Educational Consultant

Univ Pr of Colorado

A Colorado history

For forty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place.

Ubbelohde, Carl

Maxine Benson

Pruett Publishing Company

Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend is the first biography to give full attention to Tabor's mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades. It is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary that even in his own lifetime the facts were largely obscured behind the legend. Rarely has the Victorian American West, both good and bad, been better synopsized in the figure of one man.Show More an.Show Less An 1858er who had spent nearly two decades following the will-o-the-wisp Colorado mining frontier,  in 1876 Tabor was then living and working in out-of-the-way Oro City, near where Leadville would be one day.  Soon thereafter came the Little Pittsburg silver strike, and Tabor's fortune took flight.  Very quickly, Colorado - and the rest of the nation - was hearing about Horace Tabor.  "Denver's lucky star was on high when Governor Tabor decided to spend his fortune here," praised the Denver Tribune  in 1881.  The Leadville Daily Herald (July 8, 1882) also understood his contribution: "Colorado has produced fortunes for many men, but no man who has met with success has so freely made investments in this state, as has Governor Tabor."The events that followed that amazing silver discovery on Fryer Hill, May 1878 unfolded like a classic Greek tragedy.  Tabor weathered them all, and his name has resounded through the succeeding decades.  No other Coloradan of his generation is so well remembered, nor does anyone else so typify the tempo of this legendary mining era.

Horace Tabor: His Life and The Legend

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Pioneers & Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile

Richard D. Lamm

For forty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place.

A Colorado History, 10th Edition (The Pruett Series)

Carl Ubbelohde

WestWinds Press

When coal was king: A history of Crested Butte, Colorado, 1880-1952 (Heritage resource study series)

Colorado School of Mines Press

The spectacular landscapes of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado are graphic evidence of the violent geology that concentrated a wealth of minerals in the triangle loosely defined by the picturesque mining towns of Telluride, Silverton and Ouray. An ancient hunting ground of indigenous peoples, these rugged high peaks concealed gold and silver discovered by westerners only in the last 150 years. These discoveries spurred mining booms and engineering feats as man worked to penetrate the ore- and crystal-laden cliffs and peaks. Modern visitors to the San Juans still collect minerals in the many prospects and trek the highways and byways that were first carved into the mountains by the pioneers. The mining history and stunning scenery of the San Juans is impossible to ignore, as are the Mountains of Minerals that make them so.

The San Juan Triangle of Colorado: Mountains of Minerals

Robert B. Cook

David W. Bunk

Daniel Kile

Terry C. Wallace

Don Earnest

Gary McWilliams

Allan Young

Robert Stoufer

Tom Rosemeyer

Barbara Muntyan

Virgil Lueth

Robert W. Eveleth

Jack A. Murphy

Kaitlin Stoufer

Lithographie, LLC

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