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Author : Robert M. Ormes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado written by Robert M. Ormes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas J. Noel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153539
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Colorado written by Thomas J. Noel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.
Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625857837
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.
Author : Claude Wiatrowski
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1616732083
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Historic Colorado written by Claude Wiatrowski and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This travel guide with historic and modern photos offers maps as well as notable and picturesque route suggestions, perfect for American history buffs. With its ancient pueblos and dinosaur bones, its gold mines and railroads, and its pioneering place in the westward push of the American frontier, Colorado is a state alive with history. This illustrated adventure through historical Colorado takes readers by scenic backroads from the towering Rocky Mountains to the vast Great Plains, with stops at every turn for a revealing view of the state’s rich past. Filled with spectacular modern photographs and historic black-and-white images, Historic Colorado tells the stories behind the most important and fascinating places in the growth and character of the Centennial State. The book follows in the footsteps of explorers and prospectors, cowpokes and pioneers, down the Santa Fe Trail, across the Continental Divide, up Clear Creek, and over Lizard Head Pass. It explores the legacy of mining, the railroads, and the Old West, as well as the heritage of Native Americans. It ventures through towns and cities, farmland and untamed wilderness, revisiting the stories of the people and personalities who made centuries of history in America’s highest state. Maps and travel tips round out the book, making it as useful to the tourist as it is entertaining for the armchair traveler.
Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780966567533
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book 4WD Trails: North-Central Colorado written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4WD Trails books are a series of inexpensive 4WD travel guides that include the trail information for selected regions included in the comprehensive 4WD Adventures series. All three titles provide all the information needed for anyone with a sport utility vehicle to explore about 30 backcountry trails within a selected region of Colorado, from easy to challenging. They feature approximately 50 photographs and step-by-step directions for each trail. Every trail includes a two-color map, ratings for degree-of-difficulty and scenic beauty, driving time, overall and point-to-point distances, and GPS coordinates. Write-ups include brief histories of the trails, the ghost towns, and mining operations in the area.
Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781930193291
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Colorado Trails South-Central Region written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930193068
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Backcountry Adventures Colorado written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Navigates your whole family along 2,550 miles of varied and spectacular terrain, from towering fourteeners to gigantic sand dunes"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Joseph J. Lischka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book An Archaeological Inventory in North Park, Jackson County, Colorado written by Joseph J. Lischka and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An archeological survey was conducted of 25,100 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management in North Park, Jackson County, Colorado. A total of 151 prehistoric sites, 14 historic sites and 322 isolated finds were recorded during the survey. The artifactual remains recovered from these sites and environmental characteristics of the sites and their catchment areas were used to further define the prehistoric chronology of North Park, construct a typology of prehistoric settlements and analyze prehistoric subsistence-settlement systems in the Park"--Page 3.
Author : Claude A. Wiatrowski
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896585911
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Colorado written by Claude A. Wiatrowski and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Wiatrowski, with photography by Claude Wiatrowski. Through informative text, sharp color photography, and historical black-and-white images, Railroads of Colorado invites you on a journey from the railroad's humble and hard-won beginnings to its status as a symbol of our past. Railroads of Colorado also includes ideas for exploring Colorado's railways; both the ghosts of long-gone trains that haunt the mountains and the preserved trains whose whistles still echo off those granite peaks. It also contains other helpful information--such as a map showing the routes of more than 30 Colorado rail lines and a "railroad directory," which lists the contact information for 13 operating passenger trains and trolleys.Explores the fascination these improbable railways inspire, providing the history of these unique railroads, the engineering that paved their way into the mountains, and the men who built and ran them.
Author : Jan MacKell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439613982
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Cripple Creek District written by Jan MacKell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cripple Creek District, on the back of Pikes Peak in central Colorado, first found fame through Bob Womack, the cowboy who publicized his knowledge of gold in the high country and drew thousands to the area. Gold fever allowed the region to flourish, while strikes, fires, and economic hardships threatened the district's survival. The dwindling population's fortitude, plus innovative ideas to boost the economy, carried the city from a struggling gold-miners' paradise to a favored tourist spot.
Author : Lee Gregory
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555661458
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Colorado Scenic Guide written by Lee Gregory and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Martinelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Historic Avalanches in the Northern Front Range and the Central and Northern Mountains of Colorado written by M. Martinelli and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper accounts of avalanche accidents from the 1860s through 1950 have been compiled, summarized, and discussed. Many of the avalanches that caused fatalities came down rather small, innocuous-looking paths. Land use planners can use historical avalanche information as a reminder of the power of snow avalanches and to assure rational development in the future.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book General Technical Report RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul M. O'Rourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Frontier in Transition written by Paul M. O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Young Chalfant
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128757
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek written by William Young Chalfant and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter of that conflict, was a fight between a band of Cheyennes and a company of the Sixth Cavalry that took place in Kansas in April 1875. More Cheyennes were killed in that single engagement than in all the previous fighting of the war combined, and later there were controversial charges of massacre-and worse. William Y. Chalfant has used all known contemporaneous sources to recound the tragedy that occurred at the place known to the Cheyennes as Dark Water Creek. In Cheyenne memories, its name remains second only to Sand Creek in the terrible images and the sorrow it evokes. Chalfant tells the story in a sweeping style that recreates Cheyenne life on the southern plains. Beyond examining firsthand and secoundary accounts in detail, the author personally retraced the route of the army detachment from Fort Wallace, Kansas, to the battle site at Sappa Creek, and the route of the Cheyennes from Punished Women’s Fork to the Sappa. His recounting of the lives of the Indian and military participants, both leading up to and following the battle, is sure to appeal both to scholars of the Indian wars and to the general reader.
Author : Elmer Griffith Sulzer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334848
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Ghost Railroads of Kentucky written by Elmer Griffith Sulzer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Railroads of Kentucky (first published in 1967) and its two sister volumes, Ghost Railroads of Indiana (1970) and Ghost Railroads of Tennessee (1975), provide the authoritative account of the abandoned lines in the railroad heartland east of the Mississippi. No mere compilation of dry statistics on track closings and running schedules (though they are here too!), this book is full of the life and vigor of Kentucky's economic arteries. Professor Sulzer, a consummate storyteller, recounts the human drama surrounding these ghost lines. Even poor Alex Richardson, shamefully lynched on the new railroad bridge over the Kentucky River at West Irvine, has his sad story told.
Author : MaryJoy Martin
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871089137
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Something in the Wind written by MaryJoy Martin and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado has some great ghost stories, and this book contains spirits, spooks, and sprites that are a colorful lot of characters. MaryJoy Martin brings them vividly into focus as she describes the San Juans marvelous mix of cultures, from ancient Puebolans, migratory gold seekers to the hungry immigrants straight off the boat. Woof and warp, these tales weave a unique tapestry that matches the mystery and majesty of the mountains. The majority of the tales originated before the 1920s, most going back to the gold rush days and earlier.
