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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. He shares the pleasures and perils of ranching out West, at the dawn of the 20th century"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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IDA: HER LABOR OF LOVE is the true expanded biography of a woman living in Colorado during the late 1800s. Rich in the details of pioneer life, this story enchants, amazes and illuminates the woman's role in civilizing the then raw wilderness of the American West. The reader will be facinated by the life of this frontier woman, experiencing her joys and sorrows along the way.
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English
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H.A.W. Tabor and his bride Augusta left New England for Kansas and then to the Colorado Mountains to pursue wealth. They were a part of Denver's early history. Tabor became very wealthy and became lieutenant governor , U.S. Senator, politician, capitalist, parton of the arts, and an empire builder on a grand scale. He divorced Augusta and married a divorcee of the mining camps Baby Doe. He died a pauper. Three women shared his struggles, Augusta,...
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English
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The rollicking story of the Leadville waitress who reached the top of Newport society -- and a permanent place in American lore -- as a heroine of the Titanic disaster. Miss Bancroft's biography gives the true story of the unsinkable lady from Colorado and makes an amusing contrast with the legend.
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Language
English
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their society luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teaching jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied - shocking their families and friends. "No young lady in our town,"...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Follows the Whitten family and their neighbors as they try to find ways to deal with the encroaching desert in their small ranching community of Colorado's San Luis Valley, a condition created by the diversion of water to cities throughout the West.