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It Happened in Colorado.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: It Happened in the West SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The, 1993Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781493023523
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: It Happened in ColoradoDDC classification:
  • 978.8
LOC classification:
  • F776.6.C78 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Great Buffalo Hunt -- The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition -- Zebulon Pike's Espionage Mission -- The First Settlement of Pueblo -- The Building of Bent's Fort -- A Trek along the Santa Fe Trail -- A Holiday with Fur Traders -- Francis Parkman's Vision -- Kit Carson's Long March -- The Great Railroad Survey -- Pikes Peak or Bust -- Early Journalism in Colorado -- The Creation of the Denver Mint -- The Sand Creek Massacre -- The Blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail -- J. W. Powell's Rocky Mountain Expedition -- The Battle of Beecher Island -- The Great Diamond Hoax -- A Ramble in the Rockies -- The Cannibalism of Alfred Packer -- Clay Allison's Trouble at Las Animas -- The Birth of Leadville, Silver Capital -- Uncle Dick Wootton's Toll Road -- The Ute Affair -- The Inheritance of Ouray -- The Wetherill Brothers and Mesa Verde -- The Legacy of Jesse James -- Barney Ford's Black Activism -- Mother Jones's Union Stand -- The Death of Buffalo Bill -- The Legend of Baby Doe -- W. H. Jackson's Quest for the Cross -- The Search for Bridey Murphy -- Red Ryder and Little Beaver -- The History of Two Historians -- The Near Destruction of Granby -- The Blizzard -- Colorado Facts and Trivia -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Colorado has historical high points as grand as its magnificent mountains. In this book, author James A. Crutchfield scales thirty-eight of these historical summits.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Great Buffalo Hunt -- The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition -- Zebulon Pike's Espionage Mission -- The First Settlement of Pueblo -- The Building of Bent's Fort -- A Trek along the Santa Fe Trail -- A Holiday with Fur Traders -- Francis Parkman's Vision -- Kit Carson's Long March -- The Great Railroad Survey -- Pikes Peak or Bust -- Early Journalism in Colorado -- The Creation of the Denver Mint -- The Sand Creek Massacre -- The Blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail -- J. W. Powell's Rocky Mountain Expedition -- The Battle of Beecher Island -- The Great Diamond Hoax -- A Ramble in the Rockies -- The Cannibalism of Alfred Packer -- Clay Allison's Trouble at Las Animas -- The Birth of Leadville, Silver Capital -- Uncle Dick Wootton's Toll Road -- The Ute Affair -- The Inheritance of Ouray -- The Wetherill Brothers and Mesa Verde -- The Legacy of Jesse James -- Barney Ford's Black Activism -- Mother Jones's Union Stand -- The Death of Buffalo Bill -- The Legend of Baby Doe -- W. H. Jackson's Quest for the Cross -- The Search for Bridey Murphy -- Red Ryder and Little Beaver -- The History of Two Historians -- The Near Destruction of Granby -- The Blizzard -- Colorado Facts and Trivia -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Colorado has historical high points as grand as its magnificent mountains. In this book, author James A. Crutchfield scales thirty-eight of these historical summits.

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