Research Catalog

Title

A Colorado history / Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson, Duane A. Smith, editors.

Author

Ubbelohde, Carl.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Pruett Pub. Co., c1982.

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Additional Authors

• Benson, Maxine.
• Smith, Duane A.

Description

vii, 413 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

Colorado > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [379]-400.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: The Land -- A Prehistoric Prelude: The Dwellers in the Cliffs -- A Spanish Borderland -- Exploring Louisiana -- The Fur Frontier -- The Frontier in Transition -- Gold Rush -- Miners and Merchants -- Culture Comes to the Gold Towns -- Legal Beginnings -- Battlegrounds -- Smelters and Railroads -- Utopias in the Desert -- Carpetbagger's Kingdom -- The Centennial State -- Carbonate Camps -- Open Range Days -- Beyond the Continental Divide -- Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters -- New Frontiers -- Politics and Populists -- The Silver Crusade -- The Good Old Days -- The Era of Industrial Warfare -- Water and Sugar -- The Progressive Era -- State and Nation -- The Twenties -- Depression Decade -- Life in Colorado Between Two Wars -- Decades of Boom, Years of Bust -- Colorado and the Nation -- Urban Colorado -- The Old and the New -- "We Can't Remember Who We Were Tomorrow" -- Colorado in the New Millennium -- Colorado's Governors, Senators, and Congressional Representatives (Chronological List).

ISBN

• 0871082403
• 0871082411 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^81015812^

OCLC

7836292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library