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"Long before men walked in Colorado, the land that would one day become the Centennial State, was already beginning to take shape. This book investigates the natural history of Colorado from the formation of the Rocky Mountains to the earliest flora and fauna. Using easy-to-follow text and full color photographs of Colorado's majestic landscape, the book will also consider the ways Colorado's human inhabitants have shaped and changed the environment...
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On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. This is the first in-depth account of this sensational case.
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Breckling Press
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English
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Inspiration drawn from letters, journals, historical sources, and quilts--essential vehicles of women's storytelling through the years--fills this narrative re-creation of the history of the West, from the time of the early pioneers to the present day. 70 color photos. 60 b&w photos. 20 line drawings.
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PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"This book considers the impact of early European explorers--including the Spanish conquistadors and French explorers of the 18th century--on what would one day become the state of Colorado. The book provides students with engaging text, full color photos, and supporting primary source documents to outline important explorers, as well as the natural resources like animal furs that made Colorado an attractive place for exploration and settlement"--Provided...
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Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated dispute between two riled-up ranchers over water rights. If...
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"An in-depth history of the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment who played a vital and often decisive role during the Civil War in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains -- and in the westward expansion of the American empire"--
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Published by Serving House Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict and one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million in the late 19th century. A divorcee shunned by Denver society, Lizzie raised two daughters in a villa where 100 peacocks roamed the lawns, entertained Sarah Bernhardt when...
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Western National Parks Association
Pub. Date
℗♭2009
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English
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Bent's Fort was the largest trading post for hundreds of miles. It was a crossroads of culture for the Indians of the Plains, the trappers of the mountains, and the traders of the Southwest. Yet, in August of 1849, this guiding light of western expansion burned out. What happened to Bent's Old Fort - the fur trading empire that helped fuel the flow of commerce on the Santa Fe Trail? What kind of legacy did it leave behind for the American West - and...
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