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Copublished with History Colorado
In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most compelling artifacts from Colorado's history. These objects reveal how Colorado has evolved over time, allowing readers to draw multiple connections among periods, places, and people. Collectively, the essays offer a treasure trove of historical insight and unforgettable detail.
Beginning with Indigenous people and ending in the early years of the twenty-first century, Wei traces Colorado's story by taking a close look at unique artifacts that bring to life the cultures and experiences of its people. For each object, a short essay accompanies a full-color photograph. These accessible accounts tell the human stories behind the artifacts, illuminating each object's importance to the people who used it and its role in forming Colorado's culture. Together, they show how Colorado was shaped and how Coloradans became the people they are. Theirs is a story of survival, perseverance, enterprise, and luck.
Providing a fresh lens through which to view Colorado's past, Becoming Colorado tells an inclusive story of the Indigenous and the immigrant, the famous and the unknown, the vocal and the voicelessāfor they are all Coloradans.
In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most compelling artifacts from Colorado's history. These objects reveal how Colorado has evolved over time, allowing readers to draw multiple connections among periods, places, and people. Collectively, the essays offer a treasure trove of historical insight and unforgettable detail.
Beginning with Indigenous people and ending in the early years of the twenty-first century, Wei traces Colorado's story by taking a close look at unique artifacts that bring to life the cultures and experiences of its people. For each object, a short essay accompanies a full-color photograph. These accessible accounts tell the human stories behind the artifacts, illuminating each object's importance to the people who used it and its role in forming Colorado's culture. Together, they show how Colorado was shaped and how Coloradans became the people they are. Theirs is a story of survival, perseverance, enterprise, and luck.
Providing a fresh lens through which to view Colorado's past, Becoming Colorado tells an inclusive story of the Indigenous and the immigrant, the famous and the unknown, the vocal and the voicelessāfor they are all Coloradans.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- Colorful Colorado: A Historical Overview
- 1. Early Coloradans
- 2. From Hunters to Farmers
- 3. Lifestyle of the āAncient Onesā
- 4. āGold, God, Gloryā
- 5. Indigenous Coloradans
- 6. āDraw Me Not without Reason; Sheath Me Not without Honorā
- 7. Coloradoās Longest Continuous Inhabitants
- 8. Warrior Societies
- 9. Horsemen of the Plains
- 10. A Warriorās Carrying Case
- 11. Law and Order in Colorado
- 12. Frontier Fur Trade
- 13. Mud Castle of the Plains
- 14. The Legendary Kit Carson
- 15. āOh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roamā
- 16. Adapting to an Extreme Environment
- 17. Hispano Heritage
- 18. āPikes Peak or Bust!ā
- 19. Striking Gold
- 20. Entrepreneurial Scientist
- 21. Westward Ho!
- 22. Riding Shotgun
- 23. Promoting a Civil Society
- 24. The Gettysburg of the West
- 25. Mexican Colonists
- 26. Vengeance in Colorado Territory
- 27. Immigrants at Work
- 28. Denverās Original First Responders
- 29. āIkeā Baerās Chair
- 30. Sioux Warrior and Statesman
- 31. Battle of Beecher Island
- 32. Silver Railroad Spike
- 33. Colorado Cattle Baron
- 34. Ute Warrior and Man of Peace
- 35. Rules to Live By
- 36. Ballad of Baby Doe
- 37. Pathfinder of the San Juans
- 38. Coloradoās Architect
- 39. The Eighth Wonder of the World
- 40. Militia versus Miners
- 41. Chinese Coloradans
- 42. Ute Children
- 43. Florence Bellās Legacy
- 44. Searching for Zion
- 45. Freedom to Ride
- 46. Democracy Comes to Colorado
- 47. The Worldās Sanatorium
- 48. A Mardi Gras in the Rocky Mountains
- 49. Texas Longhorns and Colorado Grasslands
- 50. Have License, Will Travel
- 51. Evangelicals in Colorado
- 52. Coming-Āout Party
- 53. African American Colony on the Prairies
- 54. Farming in the āGreat American Desertā
- 55. Sodbusters
- 56. Coalfield Wars
- 57. Grand Illumination
- 58. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- 59. An Iconic Landscape
- 60. From Beer to Malted Milk
- 61. The Yanks Are Coming
- 62. Garden of Eden
- 63. Keeping the Faith
- 64. In Praise of Peaches
- 65. Vegetable Man!
- 66. Rock That Burns
- 67. Cutting through the Continental Divide
- 68. Paris on the Platte
- 69. Dirty Thirties
- 70. Surviving the Great Depression
- 71. The Harlem of the West
- 72. Enduring the Unendurable
- 73. German POWs in Colorado
- 74. Ikeās āIke Jacketā
- 75. Ski Soldiers
- 76. Colorado Powder
- 77. A Cowboy State of Mind
- 78. Under Many Flags
- 79. Mass Murder in the Sky
- 80. Traveling in Style
- 81. Up, Up, and Away
- 82. Yellowcake Towns
- 83. The Cold War and Colorado
- 84. āHouston, We Have a Problem Hereā
- 85. The Chicano Movement
- 86. Rocky Mountain High
- 87. Saying āNoā to the Winter Olympics
- 88. Rooting for the Home Team
- 89. Making Beer and History in Colorado
- 90. Living the American Dream
- 91. Sneaker Campaign
- 92. Celebrating American Indian Cultures
- 93. Making Colorado Cosmopolitan
- 94. āTo Go Columbineā
- 95. Emblems of Pride or Prejudice?
- 96. Change We Can Believe In
- 97. Crocs in Colorado
- 98. From āHate Stateā to the Election of a Gay Governor
- 99. Marijuana Mecca
- 100. Fighting for America, Fighting for Themselves
- Notes
- Information about the Objects
- Selected Bibliography
- Index