The Ute people have lived in Colorado longer than anyone else.
Book Reviews
How could the actions of one man, Nathan Meeker, result in the expulsion of almost 3,000 Utes from Colorado in 1880-81? Robert Silbernagel’s thoroughly researched and fast-moving account of the “Meeker Affair” attempts to answer this question.
Meeker came to the White River Indian Agency...
Carole Counihan, an anthropology professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, spent ten years gathering “food-centered life histories” from Mexicana women in Antonito, a small town in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. The result of this research, the book A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and...
Innumerable books, both scholarly and popular, have been published about building the first transcontinental railroad. In recent years histories of the later routes also have been written, but one still had to read numerous volumes to understand the entire story of railroading. The Rival...
A Woman’s Life in Golden was originally published in 1980. Reprinted in 2010, the book is a collection of essays written by members of the all-female Delphian Study Club. The essays are organized in the order in which their authors arrived in Golden, Colorado. Each woman gives the...
The edited collection Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado is a history of Colorado from the perspective of a variety of ethnic groups. The introduction clearly states the need for this book: “Despite Colorado’s remarkable ethnic, cultural, and racial diversity,...
I really wanted to like this book, truly I did. However, I was terribly disappointed. Where to begin?
Let’s see, the Introduction might be a good and instructive place to start. The author asserts that Baron Manfred von Richthofen was a pal of the colorful and eccentric Baron Allois...
What a treat! Pun intended. This book is perhaps the definitive work on the history of western dinnerware. Corinne Joy Brown not only takes the reader through the collectible aspects of such wares, she meticulously lays out, if you will, the history and purpose of the various pieces of a set of...
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...
During the spring of 2011, there was great anticipation from a cadre of Routt County residents awaiting the release of Dorothy Wickenden’s book, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West. Several years earlier, a request for information about Elkhead,...