A Colorado History

by Ubbelohde, Carl; Benson, Maxine; Smith, Duane A.

• ISBN13: 9780871089236
• ISBN10: 0871089238
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Westwinds Pr

Summary

A comprehensive and accessible panorantic history in print for over35 years.

Author Biography

Carl Ubbelohde is the Henry Eldridge Bourke Professor of History Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University Maxine Benson is a Colorado native and an independent historian who has served as state historian with the Colorado Historical Society Duane A. Smith is a professor of history and southwest studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Prologue: The Land	xi
A Prehistoric Prelude: The Dwellers in the Cliffs	1	(8)
A Spanish Borderland	9	(10)
Exploring Louisiana	19	(11)
The Fur Frontier	30	(11)
The Frontier in Transition	41	(15)
Gold Rush	56	(12)
Miners and Merchants	68	(10)
Culture Comes to the Gold Towns	78	(11)
Legal Beginnings	89	(8)
Battlegrounds	97	(13)
Smelters and Railroads	110	(13)
Utopias in the Desert	123	(10)
Carpetbagger's Kingdom	133	(11)
The Centennial State	144	(9)
Carbonate Camps	153	(12)
Open Range Days	165	(10)
Beyond the Continental Divide	175	(11)
Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters	186	(9)
New Frontiers	195	(11)
Politics and Populists	206	(10)
The Silver Crusade	216	(10)
The Good Old Days	226	(12)
The Era of Industrial Warfare	238	(12)
Water and Sugar	250	(12)
The Progressive Era	262	(12)
State and Nation	274	(10)
The Twenties	284	(14)
Depression Decade	298	(12)
Life in Colorado Between Two Wars	310	(11)
Decades of Boom, Years of Bust	321	(12)
Colorado and the Nation	333	(13)
Urban Colorado	346	(11)
The Old and the New	357	(10)
``We Can't Remember Who We Were Tomorrow''	367	(12)
Colorado in the New Millennium	379	(14)
Suggested Reading	393	(52)
Colorado's Governors, Senators, and Congressional Representatives (Chronological List)	445	(4)
Picture Credits	449	(2)
Index	451