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Book The Southwest Historical Series  Overland routes to the gold fields  1859  from contemporary diaries  ed  by LeRoy R  Hafen

Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series Overland routes to the gold fields 1859 from contemporary diaries ed by LeRoy R Hafen written by Ralph Paul Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Overland Routes to the Gold Fields  1859

Download or read book Overland Routes to the Gold Fields 1859 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries and journals of those who went to Colorado during the Pike's Peak gold rush of 1859.

Book The Far Southwest  1846 1912

Download or read book The Far Southwest 1846 1912 written by Howard Roberts Lamar and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

Book The Southwest Historical Series  Analytical index

Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series Analytical index written by Ralph Paul Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southwest Historical Series

Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southwest Historical Series

Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series written by Ralph Paul Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analytical Index  to  the Southwest Historical Series

Download or read book Analytical Index to the Southwest Historical Series written by Ralph Paul Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colorado

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  • Author : Thomas J. Noel
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-05-29
  • ISBN : 0806153539
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Colorado written by Thomas J. Noel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.

Book Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands  1848   1886

Download or read book Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands 1848 1886 written by Janne Lahti and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have mined military records, descendants’ recollections, genealogical sources, and even folklore to tell common soldiers’ stories. The essays examine enlisted soldiers’ cross-cultural interactions and dynamic, situational identities. They illuminate the intersections of class, culture, and race in the nineteenth-century Southwest. The men who served under U.S. or Mexican flags and on the payrolls of the federal government or as state or territorial volunteers represented most of the major ethnicities in the West—Hispanics, African Americans, Indians, American-born Anglos, and recent European immigrants—and many moved fluidly among various social and ethnic groups. For example, though usually described as an Apache scout, Mickey Free was born to Mexican parents, raised by an American stepfather, adopted by an Apache father, given an Irish name, and was ultimately categorized by federal authorities as an Irish Mexican White Mountain Apache. George Goldsby, a former slave of mixed ancestry, served as a white soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, and then served twelve years as a “Buffalo Soldier” in the all-black Tenth U.S. Cavalry. He also claimed some American Indian ancestry and was rumored to have crossed the Mexican border to fight alongside Pancho Villa. What motivated these soldiers? Some were patriots and adventurers. Others were destitute and had few other options. Enlisted men received little professional training, and possibilities for advancement were few. Many of these men witnessed, underwent, or inflicted extreme violence, some of it personal and much of it related to excruciating military campaigns. Spotlighting ordinary men who usually appear on the margins of history, the biographical essays collected here tell the stories of soldiers in the complex world of the Southwest after the U.S.-Mexican War.

Book Review of Current Military Literature

Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Living  Rural Communities  Recreation  Returning Veterans  World Peace

Download or read book Christian Living Rural Communities Recreation Returning Veterans World Peace written by Colorado State University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Colorado History  10th Edition

Download or read book A Colorado History 10th Edition written by Maxine Benson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place. "A Colorado History has been, since its first appearance in 1965, widely recognized as an exemplary work of its kind." --The Colorado Magazine 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.

Book Monographic Series

Download or read book Monographic Series written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Fifty niner

Download or read book Journal of a Fifty niner written by Robert Mark Warner and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riches and Regrets

Download or read book Riches and Regrets written by Patricia A. Stokowski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of Central City and Black Hawk, Colorado, there have been three great moments exceeding all capacity for imagination and prediction: the discovery of gold in 1859; the renewal of Central City's opera in 1932; and the opening of casino gaming in 1991. Gambling was adopted to stimulate the local economy and bring new riches to the Gilpin County towns, replicating the accomplishments of previous mining and opera times. Yet, it was not long after gambling was approved that residents began expressing regrets over what they had lost in the transformation of their community. In Riches and Regrets, Patricia Stokowski traces the development of contemporary Gilpin County gambling from the proposal and campaign stage in 1989 and 1990, through the construction period leading to the opening of casinos in October 1991, and across several years of post-opening impacts. Combining critical historical perspectives with sociological analyses, Stokowski documents the economic, social, cultural, and institutional effects of the gaming development, concluding that gambling has produced mixed results for the Gilpin County towns. With gambling becoming increasingly popular as an economic development strategy in both rural and urban communities across America, Riches and Regrets can provide lessons for other communities seeking their own golden dreams at the card tables and slot machines.