| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Mountains and plains -- The first Coloradans -- New Mexico's northern frontier -- The Pikes Peak gold rush -- The era of the booster -- Interlude : Coloradans in 1876 -- The bonanza years -- The businessman's state -- A generation of industrial warfare -- Farming and ranching in the American desert -- Women in politics and society -- A diverse people -- Scenery, health, and tourism -- Denver : the Rocky Mountain metropolis -- Interlude : Coloradans in 1917 -- The 1920s -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- Postwar boom -- Postwar politics and other diversions -- Troubled times -- Measuring the limits of growth -- Economic peaks and valleys -- Cultural and political wars -- Colorado chronology -- Colorado biographies -- Colorado officials -- Colorado facts and symbols -- Colorado population and economic statistics |
| Summary |
Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The fourth edition tells of conflicts, new alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028670
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| Subject |
Colorado
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Staat Colorado
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leonard, Stephen J., 1941-
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Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)
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| ISBN |
9781457110634 |
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1457110636 |
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9781457109553 |
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1457109557 |
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9781607321071 |
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1607321076 |
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