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

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

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to "This Blue Hollow," is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the years when travel became a middle-class rite of summer and the park and town developed quickly, from 1903 to 1945. America's Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: James H. Pickering

Colorado's San Juan Mountains are home to some of the most historic, and notorious, gold and silver mining towns in the West: Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and Creede. For five centuries, the San Juans were the summer home to the Ute Indians. They were explored and claimed by Spaniards 250 years ago, and it has only been 150 years since they were entered and permanently settled by European ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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

This is an informational, historical, biographical book regarding the early mansions of Denver and the people who built them. The book covers descriptions, photographs and drawings of the residences and delves into the lives of the families who lived in them.

Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Company
Written By: James Bretz

In this enthralling narrative, James H Pickering traces the development of Estes Park as a mountain resort community, from the time of its first recorded discovery by Joel Estes in 1859 to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. Though Estes and his family stayed only briefly, others quickly followed: hunters, homesteading settlers, lumbermen, mountaineers, artists, writers, and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: James H. Pickering

Human habitation in Colorado's San Luis Valley stretches back to distant times. Ancient peoples lived there thousands of years ago, as did the Utes, who claim the valley has been theirs forever. Others, both native peoples and Europeans, knew the valley--Don Juan de Oate claimed the valley for King Phillip II of Spain in 1598. Consequently, the San Luis Valley has many stories, told in many ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Virginia McConnell Simmons, David Fridtjof Halaas

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

First published in 1989, Boomtown Blues examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry’s continual cycles of boom and bust.

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Andrew Gulliford