Casimiro Barela, state senator for over 37 years, fought to ensure Colorado’s first constitution was published in English, Spanish and German.
Book Reviews
It’s likely that more books and articles have been written about prostitutes in the Old West than any other group of women. While the importance of red light ladies in the grand scheme of westward expansion may be disputed, their ubiquitous presence in mining camps, small towns and cities is...
Welcome to a visual treat of Colorado’s mining history from the exciting days of 1859 to 1920, when mining’s great era ended. By then, the industry had evolved from the pioneering placer days of 1859 to the hard rock days, with miners burrowing deep into the granite. Mining had gone from...
Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” is an immensely popular series of “pop” history publications on various communities around the United States. Barbara Fleming and Malcolm “Mac” McNeill’s addition to this collection, Fort Collins: The Miller Photographs, is a delightful book...
If this were just a book on barbed wire, it would probably be a rather dull read. However, that is not the case. In just over one hundred pages the author manages to bring together not only a history of barbed wire, but the story of the American cattle industry and the settlement of the Great...
In imagining the West, nineteenth-century boosters painted verbal pictures of prosperous settled towns, replete with shaded sidewalks and lush gardens. Drawing largely from agricultural bulletins and agency reports, John Freeman examines the effort to provide this bucolic vision of arboreal...
Historians generally look down on vanity books—volumes that feature people who have paid to be listed in chronologies of local areas. Yet, such works are often all that survive about small towns, counties, and institutions. Even such seminal works as Jerome Smiley’s History of Denver...
Steamboat Springs, a town of about ten thousand inhabitants in northwestern Colorado, is known primarily as a world-class ski resort. Branded as Ski Town, USA, over half a century ago, Steamboat has been home to more winter Olympians than any other town in the United States....
In 1996 the Colorado Coalfield War Project began excavating the site of the April 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the nearby Berwind coal camp. This volume of essays by scholars involved in the project is a result of those excavations and analysis of the artifacts they produced. The project had, and...
Artists, historians, and the general public should find this first extensive biography of Colorado’s master muralist, Allen Tupper True (1881–1955), valuable. True’s works adorn various public places including the Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming state capitols and public libraries, the Brown...
Located northeast of Denver between the towns of Fort Lupton and Platteville, the Fort Vasquez Museum features a 1930s reconstruction of the 1835 adobe fur trading fort. Some twenty years after the Works Progress Administration project, the historic site and the reconstructed fort were...