Colorado Vanguards

Author : Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856938
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Vanguards written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado history is filled with maverick men and women who shaped the state's identity and culture. Trailblazers Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long laid groundwork for the miners, farmers and statesmen who helped the area evolve into a territory and a state. Father of Rocky Mountain National Park Enos Mills and writer Isabella Bird praised the surrounding natural splendor and championed its preservation. Entrepreneurs Otto Mears and William Jackson Palmer linked mines with towns such as Colorado Springs and Telluride, while the innovations of F.O. Stanley and Nikola Tesla energized the state. Author Phyllis J. Perry chronicles the lives of thirty men and women who left their indelible marks on Colorado.

Author : Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467119377
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Vanguards: Historic Trailblazers and Their Local Legacies written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado history is filled with maverick men and women who shaped the state's identity and culture. Trailblazers Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long laid groundwork for the miners, farmers and statesmen who helped the area evolve into a territory and a state. Father of Rocky Mountain National Park Enos Mills and writer Isabella Bird praised the surrounding natural splendor and championed its preservation. Entrepreneurs Otto Mears and William Jackson Palmer linked mines with towns such as Colorado Springs and Telluride, while the innovations of F.O. Stanley and Nikola Tesla energized the state. Author Phyllis J. Perry chronicles the lives of thirty men and women who left their indelible marks on Colorado.

Author : Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540203212
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Vanguards written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy E. Sheppard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439665389
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampton Roads Murder & Mayhem written by Nancy E. Sheppard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hampton Roads is an iconic destination, but the "birthplace of America" has a nefarious past. Dive into the story of cannibalism in the Jamestown colony and learn the gory details of the tale of the Witch of Pungo. Blackbeard and his men wreaked havoc in Hampton Roads before Virginians brought them to justice. Explore rarely told stories of lynchings, riots and a hoax involving none other than famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. Join author and historian Nancy E. Sheppard as she explores some of the darkest moments in Hampton Roads' vibrant history.

Author : Eilene Lyon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493076191
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Lies Beneath Colorado written by Eilene Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Lies Beneath Colorado Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards explores the hidden personal trials and triumphs discovered in Colorado’s oldest cemeteries, bringing the history of the state to life. Covering the entire state by region, the stories explore Spanish conquest, Native American history, the gold rush, community development, homesteading and ranching, love and loss, conflict and resolution, scandal and honor. Sidebars include material on Hispano culture in southern Colorado, headstones and cenotaphs, notable historic figures, cemetery lore, Ute treaties, crime and punishment. A must read for any fan of western history and an excellent resource for Colorado family historians.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493045938
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Mountain Man written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs** The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together. Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected. This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Edgar Beecher Bronson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanguard written by Edgar Beecher Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book The Vanguard written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James E. Sanders
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237613X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanguard of the Atlantic World written by James E. Sanders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that Latin America in this period was a site of genuine political innovation and popular debate reflecting Latin Americans' visions of modernity. Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.

Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803250086
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country Empire written by Robert G. Athearn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first adequate history of the High Country Empire I have ever found. . . . This is vivid, vigorous history, rich with incident, solid with research, firm with informed opinion. . . . On total score this is an outstanding book."--Hal Borland, Saturday Review. "It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."--Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book Review. "Mr. Athearn is not only a good historian, he is an exceptionally able writer. His sparkling narrative--filled with quotable anecdotes and general perceptive insights--is a delight to read."--Gene M. Gressley, Library Journal. "This is a complex, many-sided story, and the author . . . somehow manages to hold it down to reasonable length and at the same time retain much of the variety and color inherent in his theme."--Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Book Review. "A very great mass of scholarly knowledge expands, illuminates, and makes all alive within the major framework, and Dr. Athearn writes with power and charm and is never pedestrian or pedantic."--San Francisco Chronicle. "Professor Athearn's depth of historical knowledge and perspective ties the story of this high country empire together so that it is socially and economically meaningful and at the same time entertaining."--Harlan Trott, Christian Science Monitor.