Canõn City, Colorado
Canõn City, Colorado

Author: Larry Thomas Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780972946643

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It was an authentic Wild West town, with stagecoaches, saloons, barfights, hangings, shootings, and vigilante justice. By the 1890s, Ca-on City had grown from its days of lawlessness to become one of the most agriculturally advanced areas in the country. Accompanied by more than 200 vintage photographs, author Larry Thomas Ward takes the reader through Ca-on City's early frontier history.

Prisons of Cañon City
Prisons of Cañon City

Author: Victoria R. Newman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-03-12

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439634289

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Caon City sits in a geological bowl surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Historically, it has been known as the prison capital of the world, with eight soon to be ninestate prisons in the area and four federal facilities located 11 miles away in Florence. The first prison in Caon City was built in 1868, before Colorado became a state, and was opened in 1871. Originally known as the Colorado Territorial Penitentiary, it is currently called the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility and holds approximately 800 male inmates. Caon City has grown up around the prisons, and the areas colorful history is defined by daring prison breaks, infamous inmates, such as the Colorado cannibal Alferd Packard, and by the stories of the inmates and employees who have been part of the prison system.

The Tunnels Under Our Feet
The Tunnels Under Our Feet

Author: Tracy Beach

Publisher: Johnson Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555664589

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Have you ever seen a manhole cover with little glass circles in it and wondered why it was different from the others? Did you ever imagine that there were actually tunnels under the sidewalks? You'll be surprised to find out how many cities in Colorado had these tunnels. And they're still under our streets Those manhole covers imbedded with glass circles, many that have turned purple with age, allowed light into the tunnels below. The Tunnels Under Our Feet explores these tunnels, or what's left of them, with lively prose and interesting historical stories. Join the author on her dusty yet exciting adventures as she crawls through basements dodging spiderwebs looking for tunnel entrances, many of which are now fi lled in. But it's not hard to speculate where they go if you're diligent enough to follow the trail.

The Canon City Chronicles
The Canon City Chronicles

Author: Davalynn C Spencer

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-14

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780998951249

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The complete 3-book series, inspirational Western romance

Old Mose
Old Mose

Author: James E. Perkins

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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Examines early 20th-century fact and myth surrounding Old Mose, the feared grizzly bear of Black Mountain, in Fremont County, Colorado.

Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado

Author: Richard Hogan

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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'A significant contribution to historical sociology that shows how economic/class relations within frontier communities determined the shape of the political system.' -Scott G. McNall

Fools
Fools

Author: Neil Simon

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780573608773

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Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Author: Kevin Singel

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781719553469

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Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Colorado Rockhounding
Colorado Rockhounding

Author: Stephen M. Voynick

Publisher: Mountain Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878422920

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Your complete guide to the state's rich and varied mineral, gemstone, and fossil sources. In Colorado, rockhounds may pick agate and petrified wood from the vast Great Plains, follow dinosaur tracks on hogback ridges, pan gold in mountain streams, hunt g