Casimiro Barela, state senator for over 37 years, fought to ensure Colorado’s first constitution was published in English, Spanish and German.
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Duane Smith, along with the Vendls, bring charm and stylish writing to this story of the Great White Way—the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s “discovery” of America, and perhaps more importantly, the now great...
Environmental history and the history of sports are useful perspectives for investigating a wide array of political, economic, social, and cultural topics. Michael W. Childers ably combines both genres in Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement. Childers’s ...
Photographs and film provide an immediacy and a depth of information that has long made them the most popular of historical records. Film and Photography on the Front Range takes a fresh look at Colorado’s storied photographic history and provides new insights on the less well known...
Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institution in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies, edited by Thomas Brent Smith with an introduction by Marlene Chambers, is an insightful and comprehensive look at western American art, including artworks on display at the Denver Art...
More than a century after statehood, Colorado’s art history remains in its infancy. Thus well-written and well-illustrated publications on the subject are always welcome. The latest addition is The Murals of Colorado: Walls that Speak by Mary Motian-Meadows and Georgia Garnsey. The...
All societies have multiple subcultures that enrich those societies—often out of sight of the general public. A complex, immigrant-receiving, diverse society has even more subcultures than normal, with a rich stew of customs, cultures, lifestyles, and hobbies that bubble below media or public...
The authors selected the perfect subtitle for this informative book focusing on the life and milieu of Anne Evans, a woman whose life’s work was to nurture the things that last when gold is gone. Family, friends, and community provided the circles of “Miss Annie’s” attentions. While historians...
Since its incorporation as the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual life of Denver and Colorado. By the late 1920s, largely thanks to its excavations of paleo-Indian projectile...
In the foreword to Shaping the West, Thomas Brent Smith, director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum, asserts that during the nineteenth century this country experienced a proliferation of public commissions for sculpture “and the [subsequent] mass...
Shinin’ Times at The Fort: Stories, Recipes, and Celebrations from the Landmark Colorado Restaurant includes 150 mouth-watering recipes for the many fans of The Fort restaurant, and anyone interested in cooking authentic western food. Holly Arnold Kinney dedicates her first cookbook to...