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A land alone, Colorado's western slope / Duane Vandenbusche, Duane A. Smith.
- Title
- A land alone, Colorado's western slope / Duane Vandenbusche, Duane A. Smith.
- Author
- Vandenbusche, Duane.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Pruett Pub. Co., c1981.
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- Description
- x, 337 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This new volume is the history of the Western Slope from the Indians of Mesa Verde to the present, divided into four parts; early history to 1874; the mining era, 1874-1915; the good days; 1900-1945; and 1945 to the present--a present that threatens mineral exploitation and drastic changes in the population and land use of the region.
- Subject
- Colorado > History, Local
- Genre/Form
- Local history
- Local history.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 317-330.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Land and Its People-1874 -- When Mining Was King 1874-1914 -- Where Have All the Good Days Gone: 1900-45 -- Years of Bonanza, Times of Tribulation: 1945-Present.
- ISBN
- 0871085607
- LCCN
- ^^^80023265^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library