It Happened in Colorado.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781493023523
- 978.8
- F776.6.C78 2017
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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