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Author : Phyllis Flanders Dorset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Eldorado written by Phyllis Flanders Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phyllis F. Dorset
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ISBN 13 : 9780871086983
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The New Eldorado written by Phyllis F. Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phyllis Flanders Dorset
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ISBN 13 : 9781566193795
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)
Download or read book The Story of Colorado's Gold & Silver Rushes written by Phyllis Flanders Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phyllis Flanders Dorset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Eldorado written by Phyllis Flanders Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas J. Sherlock
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475980256
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Colorado's Healthcare Heritage written by Thomas J. Sherlock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days on the Colorado frontier, women took care of family and neighbors because accepting that "we're all in this together" was the only realistic survival strategy-on the high plains, along the Front Range, in the mountain towns, and on the Western Slope. As dangerous occupations became fundamental to Colorado's economy, if they were injured or got sick there was no one to care for the young men who worked as miners, steel workers, cowboys, and railroad construction workers in remote parts of Colorado. So physicians, surgeons, nurses, Catholic Sisters, Reform and Orthodox Jews, Protestants, and other humanitarians established hospitals and-when Colorado became a mecca for people with tuberculosis-sanatoriums. Those pioneers and the communities they served created our community-based humanitarian healthcare tradition. These stories about our Wild West heritage honor the legacy of our 19th-century healthcare pioneers and will inspire and entertain 21st-century readers. Because we can be inspired only if we understand the facts-and because facts are more likely to be understood when presented in context-this chronology includes national and international developments that establish an indispensable frame of reference for understanding how our pioneers created the local-community-based healthcare system that we've inherited.
Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297593
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Mountainous West written by William Wyckoff and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the experiences of settlers) from the east. As pioneers struggled with the climate west of the hundredth meridian, they were also confronted by mountains strewn across the region and offering their own set of limitations and opportunities. This volume focuses on these green islands of the Mountainous West that have witnessed patterns of settlement and development distinct from their lowland neighbors. In thirteen essays, the contributors address the mountains by means of five themes: the mountains as barriers to movement, islands of moisture, a zone of concentrated resources, an area of government control, and a restorative sanctuary. The focus ranges from California's Sierra Nevada to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Montana. William K. Wyckoff is an associate professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University. He is the author of The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape and of articles in many journals, including The California Geographer, Social Science Journal, Geographical Review, and Journal of Historical Geography. Lary M. Dilsaver is a professor in the Department of Geology and Geography, University of South Alabama. The author, with William Tweed, of Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, he has also written articles in journals such as Geographical Review, Annals of Tourism Research, and Yearbook of the Association of Pacific CoastGeographers.
Author : Lee Schweninger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235151
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The First We Can Remember written by Lee Schweninger and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, ?I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West.? Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as ?the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen.? Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first time in this book. The First We Can Remember presents richly detailed, vivid, and widely varied accounts by women pioneers during the late nineteenth century. Narratives of white American-born, European, and Native American women contending with very different circumstances and geographical challenges tell what it was like to settle during the rise of the smelting and mining industries or the gold rush era; to farm or ranch for the first time; to struggle with unfamiliar neighbors, food and water shortages, crop failure, or simply the intransigent land and unpredictable weather. Together, these narratives?historically and geographically framed by Lee Schweninger?s detailed introduction?create a vibrant picture of women?s experiences in the pioneering of the American West.
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 : Avi
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423140265
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Hard Gold written by Avi and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad wants their land, and if the Whitcombs can't pay their loans, the local banker, Judge Fuslin, will foreclose and sell the farm as his own.
Author : Walter Earl Pittman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476614385
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Rebels in the Rockies written by Walter Earl Pittman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the war in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and even Idaho. Repeatedly betrayed and overwhelmed by Union forces and without communications with the South, these groups were ineffective. In southern New Mexico, Southerners, who were the majority, aligned themselves with the Confederacy. Four small companies of irregulars, one Hispanic, fought (effectively) as part of the abortive Confederate invasion force of 1861-2. The most famous of these, the "Brigands," were close in function to a modern special forces unit. In 1862 the Brigands were sent into Colorado to join up with a secret army of 600-1,000 men massing there, but were betrayed. Returning to Texas, the Brigands and the other irregulars were used for special operations in the West throughout the War; they also fought in the Louisiana-Arkansas campaigns of 1863-4.
Author : John William Reps
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826203515
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Frontier written by John William Reps and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans imagine the Early West as a vast expanse of almost empty land populated only by farmers, ranchers, cattle, and horses. Now a leading scholar challenges this stereotype with his concise examination of early city planning and urban development in the region. Extending and elaborating on studies by Carl Bridenbaugh and Richard Wade of the Atlantic Seaboard and the Ohio Valley, John Reps demonstrates that throughout the Trans-Mississippi West cities and towns, not farms and ranches, formed the vanguard of frontier settlement. Urban communities thus stimulated rather than followed the opening of the West to agriculture. These cities did not grow randomly, for their founders established patterns of streets, lots, and public sites to guide expansion as population increased. Reps supports his thesis with 100 illustrations-plans, maps, surveys, and views-showing the original designs of every major Western city and of dozens of smaller places. Based on Reps's massive Cities of the American West (winner of the Beveridge Prize in 1980), this succinct account includes extensive notes and references that will be useful to readers who wish to pursue his penetrating critique.
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 : Amy Reading
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473597
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Mark Inside written by Amy Reading and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con—an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature—and invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.
Author : Gayle Shirley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493068741
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Remarkable Colorado Women written by Gayle Shirley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is today Remarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state’s most important historical figures—women from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life. Read about Julia Archibald Holmes who became the first white woman to ascend to the summit of Pike’s Peak in 1858; Frances Wisebart Jacobs, the compassionate housewife who devoted her life to supporting Colorado charities in the late nineteenth century; and Mary Elitch Long, founder of the famed pleasure grounds known as Elitch Gardens. The third edition features new biographies of frontier teacher Mabel Barbee Lee, who left a lasting impact on the students of Cripple Creek; Mo-Chi, the first female warrior of the Cheyenne; and Mildred Montague Genevieve "Tweet" Kimball who became the Cattle Queen of Colorado's Front Range in the twentieth century. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or political barriers to make contributions to society that still have an impact today.
Author : Nancy Capace
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0403098130
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Colorado written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Colorado contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.
Author : Peter Vescia
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499414609
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Pikes Peak Gold Rush written by Peter Vescia and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events have shaped the history, economy, and even geography of the state of Colorado quite like the Gold Rush. This book examines the events that led up to the discovery of gold, how the Gold Rush changed the cities and towns of Colorado, and the long-term effects on the state’s environment and natural resources. The informative text, supported by full color images and primary source documents, provides not only a chronology of events, but also historical perspective on how the past inevitably impacts the present.
Author : Dale L. Walker
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466815086
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Eldorado written by Dale L. Walker and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gold! Gold on the American River!" This declaration, shouted in the streets of San Francisco in the spring of 1848, electrified the nation, and its echo was heard in the farthest corners of the globe. In the five years that followed, tens of thousands of hopeful argonauts made their way to the vast territory on the Pacific conquered by the United States in its recent war with Mexico. They traveled overland from the Missouri River, their ox-drawn wagons crossing the Rocky Mountains, vast plains and deserts, and the formidable peaks of the Sierra Nevada. They journeyed by boat and on foot across the fever-ridden jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. They took ship from eastern seaports and sailed sixteen thousand miles via Cape Horn to the gateway of the goldfields, the new city of San Francisco. In Eldorado, award-winning historian Dale L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the California Gold Rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of American history. The story ranges from the discovery by a New Jersey carpenter at a sawmill north of Sutter's Fort to the advent of large-scale hydraulic mining that spelled the ruination of the land and the end of the boom days when a Forty-niner with a pick and a pan found "colors" in a streamed and earned his wages-an ounce of raw gold a day. Walker's narrative of this pivotal event of American history is drawn from the lives and experiences of those "on the ground" in the rush, those who blazed the trails and settled the West in their search for the riches at the rainbow's end. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
