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Description

For fifty 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.

2) Colorado, a history of the Centennial State

Author

Abbott, Carl

Description

"Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing...

3) Carl Akers' Colorado

Author

Akers, Carl

Pub. Date

c1975

4) Silver Town

Author

Horner, John Willard

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5) Guide to the Colorado ghost towns and mining camps

Author

Eberhart, Perry

Pub. Date

1981 printing, c1969

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Description

Includes index, glossary and bibl.

6) Cripple Creek days

Author

Lee, Mabel Barbee

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Description

Recollections of the author's girlhood in the gold mining camp of Cripple Creek, Colorado in the 1890's.

7) Search for a Pot of Gold: (A Miner's Story)

Author

Ummel, Dick (Richard)

Pub. Date

2021

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8) Ghost trails to ghost towns

Author

Hunt, Inez

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9) Pioneers, peddlers, and tsadikim: the story of the Jews in Colorado

Author

Uchill, Ida Libert

Description

"First published in 1957, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim, the original history of the Jewish people in Colorado, is now back in a revised and updated edition with twenty-one new illustrations. Containing a new preface and a comprehensive chronology covering more than 140 years, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim is a definitive volume for both the scholar of Jewish/Colorado history and the casual reader alike."--BOOK JACKET

10) A Colorado reader

Author

Ubbelohde, Carl

Description

A collection of essays about Colorado history, people, and wealth in resources.

11) Tales, trails, and tommyknockers : stories from Colorado's past

Author

Friggens, Myriam

Pub. Date

c1979

Description

Presents a potpourri of historical information and legends about Colorado.

12) Ghost towns of the Cripple Creek district

Author

Feitz, Leland

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Description

Colorado Collection

13) Colorado, the land and the people

Author

Kenehan, Katherine

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

History of the land of Colorado and the people.

14) Famous Aspen: its fabulous past --- its lively present

Author

Bancroft, Caroline

Description

A history and description of Aspen, Colorado.

15) High drama: Colorado's historic theatres

Author

Barrett, Daniel

16) A quick history of Lake City, Colorado

Author

Bates, Margaret

Description

Colorado Collection

17) Colorado place names

Author

Bright, William

Pub. Date

c1993

Description

The book lists 1,900 Colorado communities, counties, peaks, passes, and other geographical features. Each alphabetical entry includes, as appropriate, a pronunciation guide, elevation, location, date of founding, history, and origin of the name.

18) America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Region

Author

Pearl, Richard M

19) Memories of a lifetime in the Pike's Peak region

Author

Howbert, Irving

Description

This Volume is a 2007 reprint of the classic 1925 aut6obiography of Irving Howbert. It covers from his 1860 arrival in the Pike's Peak region from Iowa as an observant 14 year old boy. His family came across the unsettled and dangerous great plains, before settling in the Rocky mountain gateway town of Colorado City.

20) Jeep trails to Colorado ghost towns

Author

Brown, Robert L

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