University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
The Gospel of Progressivism
Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early twentieth century. While the various groups differed in their specific agendas, Protestant...
Colorado
A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
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 the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights...
A Land Made from Water
Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history...
The Last Stand of the Pack
Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This critical edition explores the past and future of wolves in Colorado. Originally published in 1929, The Last Stand of the Pack is a historical account of the extermination of what were then believed to be the last wolves in Colorado. Arthur H. Carhart and Stanley P. Young describe the wolves’...
by Mike White, Douglas Lorain
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado provides everything you need to know to organize and execute the best backpacking trips in the Mountain West. Mike White and Douglas Lorain, who have walked every mile of the trails described inside, take readers and hikers into some of the...
Passage to Wonderland
Rephotographing Joseph Stimson's Views of the Cody Road to Yellowstone National Park, 1903 and 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In 1903 the Cody Road opened, leading travelers from Cody, Wyoming, to Yellowstone National Park. Cheyenne photographer J. E. Stimson traveled the route during its first week in existence, documenting the road for the state of Wyoming's contribution to the 1904 World's Fair. His images of now-famous...
Epiphany in the Wilderness
Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier...
Contested Waters
An Environmental History of the Colorado River
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
"To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through a large amount of scientific data. One needs to be part hydrologist, geologist, economist,...
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums
The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Although most accounts of the Civil War's New Mexico campaign have focused on the Confederate effort, Distant Bugles, Distant Drums brings to life the epic march of 1,000 men recruited from Colorado's towns, farms, and mining camps to fight 3,000 Confederate soldiers in New Mexico.
Drawing...
Representation and Rebellion
The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation’s first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan—which...
Season of Terror
The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March–October 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.
For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers...
Making an American Workforce
The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce.
Focusing on the workers themselves—men,...
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily...
by Virginia McConnell Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.