A Colorado History,9780871089236

A Colorado History

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ISBN13: 9780871089236
ISBN10: 0871089238
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Westwinds Pr
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Summary

A comprehensive and accessible panorantic history in print for over35 years.

Author Biography

Carl Ubbelohde is the Henry Eldridge Bourke Professor of History Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University Maxine Benson is a Colorado native and an independent historian who has served as state historian with the Colorado Historical Society Duane A. Smith is a professor of history and southwest studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Prologue: The Land xi
A Prehistoric Prelude: The Dwellers in the Cliffs
1(8)
A Spanish Borderland
9(10)
Exploring Louisiana
19(11)
The Fur Frontier
30(11)
The Frontier in Transition
41(15)
Gold Rush
56(12)
Miners and Merchants
68(10)
Culture Comes to the Gold Towns
78(11)
Legal Beginnings
89(8)
Battlegrounds
97(13)
Smelters and Railroads
110(13)
Utopias in the Desert
123(10)
Carpetbagger's Kingdom
133(11)
The Centennial State
144(9)
Carbonate Camps
153(12)
Open Range Days
165(10)
Beyond the Continental Divide
175(11)
Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters
186(9)
New Frontiers
195(11)
Politics and Populists
206(10)
The Silver Crusade
216(10)
The Good Old Days
226(12)
The Era of Industrial Warfare
238(12)
Water and Sugar
250(12)
The Progressive Era
262(12)
State and Nation
274(10)
The Twenties
284(14)
Depression Decade
298(12)
Life in Colorado Between Two Wars
310(11)
Decades of Boom, Years of Bust
321(12)
Colorado and the Nation
333(13)
Urban Colorado
346(11)
The Old and the New
357(10)
``We Can't Remember Who We Were Tomorrow''
367(12)
Colorado in the New Millennium
379(14)
Suggested Reading 393(52)
Colorado's Governors, Senators, and Congressional Representatives (Chronological List) 445(4)
Picture Credits 449(2)
Index 451

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