The Colorado Pioneer
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 47
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Author: Alice Polk Hill
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 574
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Published: 1946
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Publisher: Caxton Press
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Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0870045652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee Schweninger
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0803235151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, ?I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West.? Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as ?the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen.? Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first time in this book. The First We Can Remember presents richly detailed, vivid, and widely varied accounts by women pioneers during the late nineteenth century. Narratives of white American-born, European, and Native American women contending with very different circumstances and geographical challenges tell what it was like to settle during the rise of the smelting and mining industries or the gold rush era; to farm or ranch for the first time; to struggle with unfamiliar neighbors, food and water shortages, crop failure, or simply the intransigent land and unpredictable weather. Together, these narratives?historically and geographically framed by Lee Schweninger?s detailed introduction?create a vibrant picture of women?s experiences in the pioneering of the American West.
Author: Jolie Anderson Gallagher
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1625842015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold routes the town of Julesburg relocated four times in a decade; feuds; Indian fights; outlaws, and even early rodeo history. These stories and events shaped the Colorado territory and are a rich glimpse into the early history of the state.
Author: Augusta H. Block
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 27
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 330
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