Becoming Colorado

Becoming Colorado

Author: William Wei

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1646421922

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Copublished with History Colorado In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most compelling artifacts from Colorado’s history. These objects reveal how Colorado has evolved over time, allowing readers to draw multiple connections among periods, places, and people. Collectively, the essays offer a treasure trove of historical insight and unforgettable detail. Beginning with Indigenous people and ending in the early years of the twenty-first century, Wei traces Colorado’s story by taking a close look at unique artifacts that bring to life the cultures and experiences of its people. For each object, a short essay accompanies a full-color photograph. These accessible accounts tell the human stories behind the artifacts, illuminating each object’s importance to the people who used it and its role in forming Colorado’s culture. Together, they show how Colorado was shaped and how Coloradans became the people they are. Theirs is a story of survival, perseverance, enterprise, and luck. Providing a fresh lens through which to view Colorado’s past, Becoming Colorado tells an inclusive story of the Indigenous and the immigrant, the famous and the unknown, the vocal and the voiceless—for they are all Coloradans.


My First Life

My First Life

Author: Frederick Blachly

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737228011

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FF Blachly's newly-discovered memoir from the late 19th century brings us an intimate view of his family's survival on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, offering a remarkably detailed look at an historically-important era of the American Frontier. In 1880, when this story begins, land recently stolen from the Ute Indians, was being turned into ranches, farms, mines, and towns by white settlers who depended on horses for transportation and farming, while cowboys, grizzly bears and outlaws still roamed free. In 1893, a family tragedy involving the notorious McCarty Gang left the author at the age of 13 responsible for the welfare of his mother and seven brothers. His story is full of adventure, heartbreaking setbacks, and struggles against extreme poverty. Yet, in spite of seemingly insurmountable adversities, he and his family were blessed with a wealth of spirit, good health, intelligence, and wit that carried them through the hardest of times. In My First Life, Blachly takes us back in time, while painting an intimate portrait of the human experience that is both timeless and universal. It is a story that will touch the heart of every reader.


Coming to Colorado

Coming to Colorado

Author: Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2009-09-18

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1628467983

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In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee’s Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the railing of a ship taking him to the land of his dreams—America. Coming to Colorado is the story of a refugee from war and deprivation, who at age sixteen, not understanding a word of English and with barely an eighth-grade education, leaves behind all that is familiar. Scarred by the violence, rape, and death he has seen, Samuel must first learn to be a boy again. But every relationship he tries to build must overcome the specter of his childhood experience in World War II and the chaos that followed. Shortly after his arrival in Colorado, Samuel spends what little money he has on a pair of second lieutenant’s bars that he finds in a Denver pawnshop. These bars, just like those worn by the American pilots he idolized during the Berlin Airlift, remind him of the airmen and the planes that instilled in him a dream to fly. That aspiration, however, faces long odds. Struggling to learn the English language and American customs, Samuel begins to lose faith in his abilities, suffers depression, and is haunted by both recurring nightmares of his violent past and survivor’s guilt. Coming to Colorado charts the path of Samuel’s eventual triumph. In 1960, his proud mother saw pinned on his shoulders the gold bars of a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It was the end of a struggle for the German boy, who had become, as he wished, the ultimate American.


That All May Read

That All May Read

Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Publisher: Washington : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780844403755

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The book is intended to provide an overview of the needs of blind and physically handicapped individuals who are unable to use print resources and to describe practices designed to meet those needs. An initial section reviews the history of library services to this population, noting federal legislation and agencies which serve them. A detailed history of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is included. Part 2 includes papers on users (results of questionnaires, interviews, and site visits), materials and publishers (including braille, large type materials, and music services); reading aids and devices; state programs from the perspective of a state librarian; and the National Library Service Network. Part 3 presents four papers on the following topics: school library media services, public libraries (services for the blind and physically handicapped); academic library services (facility accessibility, financial considerations); and training and research in librarianship. The final section shifts to an international orientation; the papers in this section focus on developments in library services for blind and physically handicapped persons in other countries and international cooperation. (CL)


The Fisherman & the Whale

The Fisherman & the Whale

Author: Jessica Lanan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1534415750

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Jessica Lanan’s dreamy and dramatic watercolor paintings bring to life a wordless story about wonder in the natural world. A fisherman takes his son for a trip out on the water. When they encounter a whale entangled at sea, they realize a connection that transcends the animal kingdom.


The Colorado Trail

The Colorado Trail

Author: Colorado Trail Foundation

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Completely revised guide to the extraordinary Colorado Trail that stretches from Denver to Durango.


Colorado Day by Day

Colorado Day by Day

Author: Derek Everett

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1646420071

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Copublished with History Colorado Colorado Day by Day is an engaging, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures and forces that have shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present. Historian Derek R. Everett presents a vignette for each day of the calendar year, exploring Colorado’s many facets through distilled tales of people, places, events, and trends. Entries incorporate tales from each of the state’s sixty-four counties and feature both well-known and obscure cultural moments, including events in Native American, African American, Asian American, Hispano, and women’s history. Allowing the reader to explore the state’s heritage as individual threads or as part of the greater tapestry, Colorado Day by Day recovers much lost history and will be an entertaining and useful source of lore for anyone who enjoys or is curious about Colorado history.


Enduring Legacies

Enduring Legacies

Author: Arturo J. Aldama

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1607320517

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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 the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities-this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies.


The Bad Old Days of Colorado

The Bad Old Days of Colorado

Author: Randi Samuelson-Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1493046535

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The Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state’s glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how “bad” things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without saying that Colorado had all the characteristic Wild West elements—and in abundance! The chapters focus on the infamous and notorious rather than the law-abiding and civic-minded settlers. These pages, like the state, recount the tales of people who came West seeking, if not their fortune, at least opportunity. It is no secret that Colorado was settled by the adventurous willing to brave the harsh conditions and to prevail. Whether on the right or the wrong side of the law, all settlers and pioneers made unique contributions to the state’s complex culture. Certainly, in the nineteenth century, Colorado was not for the faint of heart.