Threads of Honor is a true story of courage and sacrifice, of Boy Scouts learning about perseverance, of the great men and women of the American space program, and of the unquenchable spirit of a most remarkable American flag. The book’s rich appendix adds a 28-page history of the American Flag over its 230-year existence, including key events in American history that involved the flag. ...

Manufacturer: Mapletree Publishing Company
Written By: Gordon W. Ryan

During Denver’s wild ride from frontier mining town to twentieth-century metropolis, the city’s saloons, like those of many other western frontier towns, played a vital role in the development of the city. Now with a new preface, Tom Noel’s classic study, The City and the Saloon, is a liquid history of how Denver’s bars both shaped and reflected the Mile High City’s birth ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Thomas, J. Noel

Manufacturer: Univ Pr of Kansas
Written By: Richard Hogan

Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. Duane A. Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 "discovery" of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. Smith also ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Duane A. Smith

Most of the people in this book will die before the fifth paragraph. You probably haven't heard of any of them. That doesn't mean it s a book about nobodies. That doesn't mean it s a book about death. The obituaries collected here are at times humorous and at times heartbreaking. They shine a light into forgotten places and forgotten lives. Inside are countless lessons of life, taught by people we ...

Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Company
Written By: Jim Sheeler

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 this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel

In "A Pikes Peak Partnership," historians Tom Noel and Cathleen Norman tell the incredible tale of the two families who transformed Colorado Springs and its environs into a tourist haven. By building the Broadmoor Hotel and other important facilities to attract travelers, Spencer Penrose, who once proclaimed that "any man who works after lunch is a fool," made the Pikes Peak region a pleasure ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Thomas J. Noel, Cathleen M. Norman

Manufacturer: R.H. and E.M. Kiley and E.M. Shoemaker
Written By: Enos Abijah Mills

The only comprehensive roadside tour guide to Colorado's oldest cemeteries and the history buried there. This 500-page work includes: -Nearly four hundred Colorado cemeteries -More than 1,000 mini-biographies of interred pioneers -Easy to follow road directions and cemetery guides -Regional maps by chapter -History of the areas and communities -Clever epitaphs -How to do your own gravestone ...

Manufacturer: Caxton Press
Written By: Linda Wommack

'Timberline Tailings' is made up of material--letters and interviews--of the hardy men and women who met the challenges of the gold and silver mining camps of Colorado with stamina, ingenuity, and a keen love of life.

Manufacturer: Swallow Press
Written By: Muriel Sibell Wolle