University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks
(Boulder, Colorado)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks is a careful examination of the lichens that occur at the ecologically important and lichenologically rich urban outcropping of Fox Hills sandstone known as White Rocks Nature Preserve, located in Boulder County, Colorado.
This extensively illustrated...
Herndon Davis
Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Herndon Davis, an artist and journalist, dedicated his life to depicting the major landmarks and personalities of Colorado in watercolor, oil, and pen and pencil. Best known for the Face on the Barroom Floor, the portrait of an alluring woman on the floor of the Teller House Hotel barroom in Central...
Colorado Women
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless,...
by P. Andrew Jones, Tom Cech
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Why do people fight about water rights? Who decides how much water can be used by a city or irrigator? Does the federal government get involved in state water issues? Why is water in Colorado so controversial? These questions, and others like them, are addressed in Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers....
Colorado
The Highest State, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's...
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The diversion of water from Colorado’s Western Slope to meet the needs of the rest of the state has been a contentious issue throughout Colorado’s history. The source of Colorado’s water is in the snow that accumulates west of the Continental Divide, but the ever-growing population on the Front...
The Trail of Gold and Silver
Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and...
by Richard Baxter Townshend
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R. B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with $300 in his pockets.
He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful...
Colorado Flora
Eastern Slope, Fourth Edition A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together with Colorado Flora: Western Slope, Fourth Edition, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals...
Colorado Flora
Western Slope, Fourth Edition A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Colorado Flora: Western Slope describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together with Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Fourth Edition, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals...
by David M. Armstrong, James P. Fitzgerald, Carron A. Meaney
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Thoroughly revised and updated, Mammals of Colorado, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference on the nine orders and 128 species of Colorado's recent native fauna, detailing each species' description, habitat, distribution, population ecology, diet and foraging, predators and parasites, behavior,...
Enduring Legacies
Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes...
State of Change
Colorado Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Colorado has recently been at the center of major shifts in American politics. Indeed, over the last several decades the political landscape has altered dramatically on both the state and national levels. State of Change traces the political and demographic factors that have transformed Colorado,...
Helen Ring Robinson
Colorado Senator and Suffragist
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Calling herself "the housewife of the senate," Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1917, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of women, children, and workers' rights and education...