An absorbing history of Arizona, New Mexico, and neighboring territories ranges from the time of the earliest Indian inhabitants, through the area's eventual annexation, to present-day economic, social, and environmental concerns

The Southwest (Regions of America)

Lavender, David Sievert

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins Childrens Books

David Lavender's Colorado

DOUBLEDAY

In magnificent detail, Lavender explores the discovery and settlement of Northwestern America, the violent labor conflicts of the 1920s, the rise of the fishing and lumber industries, the fierce struggles of conservationists to slow down the ravages on natural resources and wildlife, and the bounding growth of cities in this lush corner of the nation.

Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950

History

Americas

Book Sales

"The country in which I grew up - the rugged areas of southwestern Colorado - was changing rapidly in the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to capture a segment of the passing on paper - the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the last efforts of the old-timers to hang on in the face of declining profits and increasing mechanization they themselves could not afford" - David Lavender. 'Believe me, David Lavender can write. He can make you laugh; he can make people come alive in print' - "Book Week". 'His story is realistic and readable...Nor does he spread any gloss on the hardships. He does, however, put on record some of the most engaging characters in the modern literature of the West. He makes it understandable why he says that, after damning the country mightily, one comes to an absurd affection for the particular part of it he has most reason to hate' - "New York Times".

One Man's West

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Univ of Nebraska Pr

From the time of Coronado’s discovery to the era of modern ski resorts and sport climbing routes, adventurers have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. In this book distinguished writer David Lavender traces the colorful history of the Rockies, focusing on the period that began in 1859 with the first gold strikes. The real and fabled attractions of gold, silver, furs, lumber, and lead brought swarms of people into the mountains, eagerly seeking wealth. A get-rich-quick spirit pervaded the Rockies, leading to lawlessness, violence, vigilantism, and political expediency. The Rockies is particularly revealing about the struggles which resulted in codes peculiar to the mountainous West. Duane A. Smith provides a new introduction to this Bison Books edition of The Rockies.

The Rockies

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Conservation. The rugged areas of southwestern Colorado---was changing rapidly during the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to captured a segment of the passing on paper---the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the last efforts of the old-times to hang on in the face of declining profits and increasing mechanization they themselves could not afford.

World

From the time of Coronado’s discovery to the era of modern ski resorts and sport climbing routes, adventurers have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. In this book distinguished writer David Lavender traces the colorful history of the Rockies, focusing on the period that began in 1859 with the first gold strikes. The real and fabled attractions of gold, silver, furs, lumber, and lead brought swarms of people into the mountains, eagerly seeking wealth. A get-rich-quick spirit pervaded the Rockies, leading to lawlessness, violence, vigilantism, and political expediency. The Rockies is particularly revealing about the struggles which resulted in codes peculiar to the mountainous West. Duane A. Smith provides a new introduction to this Bison Books edition of The Rockies.

Travel

Bison Books

The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and other legendary trappers, Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain€™s Hudson€™s Bay Company for the fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country.Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S. history.

The fist in the wilderness

Business & Money

Economics

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive history of the region drained by the Colorado River and the people who have passed through and settled in that region over the past four hundred years.

Colorado River Country

Univ of New Mexico Pr

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The Southwest (Regions of America)

David Lavender's Colorado

Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950

One Man's West

The Rockies

One Man's West

The Rockies

The Rockies

The fist in the wilderness

Colorado River Country