Colorado
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Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition

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eBook - ePub

Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition

About this book

Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.

The new edition tells of conflicts, new alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing balanced coverage of the entire state's history - from Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig - the authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed and gained influence.

While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on Colorado, this new edition broadens its coverage. The authors expand their discussion of the twentieth century with several new chapters on the economy, politics, and cultural conflicts of recent years. In addition, they address changes in attitudes toward the natural environment as well as the contributions of women, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans to the state. Dozens of new illustrations, updated statistics, and an extensive bibliography of the most recent research on Colorado history enhance this edition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. MAPS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1 MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS
  9. 2 THE FIRST COLORADANS
  10. 3 NEW MEXICO’S NORTHERN FRONTIER
  11. 4 THE PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH
  12. 5 THE ERA OF THE BOOSTER
  13. 6 THE BONANZA YEARS
  14. 7 THE BUSINESSMAN’S STATE
  15. 8 A GENERATION OF INDUSTRIAL WARFARE
  16. 9 FARMING AND RANCHING IN THE AMERICAN DESERT
  17. 10 WOMEN IN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
  18. 11 A DIVERSE PEOPLE
  19. 12 SCENERY, HEALTH, AND TOURISM
  20. 13 DENVER: THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN METROPOLIS
  21. 14 THE 1920s
  22. 15 THE GREAT DEPRESSION
  23. 16 WORLD WAR II
  24. 17 POSTWAR BOOM
  25. 18 POSTWAR POLITICS AND OTHER DIVERSIONS
  26. 19 TROUBLED TIMES
  27. 20 MEASURING THE LIMITS OF GROWTH
  28. 21 ECONOMIC PEAKS AND VALLEYS
  29. 22 CULTURAL AND POLITICAL WARS
  30. COLORADO CHRONOLOGY
  31. COLORADO BIOGRAPHIES
  32. COLORADO OFFICIALS
  33. COLORADO FACTS AND SYMBOLS
  34. COLORADO POPULATION AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS
  35. NOTES
  36. BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING
  37. INDEX