Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Ubbelohde, Carl

Publication

Portland, OR : WestWinds Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benson, Maxine.
• Smith, Duane A.

Description

504 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Experience Colorado with this new, enlarged edition of A COLORADO HISTORY. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource have led readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed--and how it has stayed the same.From the arrival of Paleo-Indians in the Mesa Verde region to the fast pace of the twenty-first century, A COLORADO HISTORY covers the political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues, along with the fascinating events and characters, that have shaped this dynamic state.In print for fifty years, this distinctive examination of the Centennial State is a must-read for history buffs, students, researchers--or anyone--interested in the remarkable place called Colorado.

Series Statement

The Pruett series

Uniform Title

Pruett series

Subject

• Colorado > History
• Colorado

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-477) and index.

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 -- Fire and water -- "Today is going to be long long ago" -- Colorado's governors, senators, and congressional -- Representatives (chronological list).

ISBN

• 9780871083197
• 0871083191
• 9780871083241
• 0871083248
• 9780871083234 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015007904

OCLC

• ocn904400137
• 904400137
• SCSB-1834294

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library