Pikes Peak Backcountry
Pikes Peak Backcountry

Author: Celinda Reynolds Kaelin

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0870043919

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This is the story of the other side of Colorado's best-known mountain- the region west of Pikes Peak. It includes stories of the first settlers and the founders of towns. It also tells of the bust years between world wars when the railroad tracks were pulled up and many communities vanished.

The Rockies
The Rockies

Author: David Sievert Lavender

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780803280199

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From the time of Coronado?s discovery to the era of modern ski resorts and sport climbing routes, adventurers have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. In this book distinguished writer David Lavender traces the colorful history of the Rockies, focusing on the period that began in 1859 with the first gold strikes. The real and fabled attractions of gold, silver, furs, lumber, and lead brought swarms of people into the mountains, eagerly seeking wealth. A get-rich-quick spirit pervaded the Rockies, leading to lawlessness, violence, vigilantism, and political expediency. The Rockies is particularly revealing about the struggles which resulted in codes peculiar to the mountainous West. Duane A. Smith provides a new introduction to this Bison Books edition of The Rockies.

Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West
Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West

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Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1567352774

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Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape.