Strange But True, Colorado
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780964817531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.
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Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780964817531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.
Author: Kenneth Jessen
Publisher: Jv Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780961166229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImaginative, ambitious people and hard, frontier living combined to create a fertile setting for staged collisions, con games, lost locomotives, and bizarre behavior.
Author: Pam Grout
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-01-06
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0762762004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYour round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Centennial State has to offer!
Author: Thomas J. Noel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-05-29
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0806153539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.
Author: Kenneth Christian Jessen
Publisher: Westwinds Press
Published: 1985-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780871086822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charmaine Ortega Getz
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781402754630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Colorado.
Author: Kenneth Christian Jessen
Publisher: Jv Publications
Published: 1997-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780961166274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephanie Waters
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-06-11
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 161423986X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWild characters, diverse cultures, spooky myths and slippery sales schemes color Colorado's past. In a place where shameless showdowns and dusty shootouts over money, drink and women were once standard procedure, storytelling around campfires became an integral part of a rich heritage. From the jackalope and vampires to Indian curses and snake oil salesmen, the Centennial State has it all. Weirder still are the strange but true stories like that of the first body buried in La Junta's Fairview Cemetery, a man who landed there for refusing alcohol to a kid, and that of the hotel in Telluride that once offered a promotion that included funeral costs with your stay. While history may have neglected these silly, seedy and salacious stories, author Stephanie Waters has rediscovered Colorado's best forgotten tales.
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 156976462X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA high-altitude alligator farm. A UFO watchtower. A monument to a headless chicken. While other travel guides tell you about tackling Pike's Peak, skiing the back bowls, or rafting down the Arkansas River, this quirky regional resource offers unusual travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Imagine regaling coworkers with unique Rocky Mountain adventures, like spending an evening at a drive-in movie . . . in a queen-sized bed, or visiting a vapor cave clad only in a towel. How about seeing a two-headed dragon made of car parts, or watching cliff divers while eating Mexican food?
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1556524609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonuments to all that is bizarre are contained in this guide, with location, websites, open hours, cost, and directions included. Pohlen is ecumenical in his tastes, including really kitschy tourist traps as well as bizarre oddities such as the barber shop of a would-be messiah. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.