Denver Public Library
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The rollicking story of the Leadville waitress who reached the top of Newport society -- and a permanent place in American lore -- as a heroine of the Titanic disaster. Miss Bancroft's biography gives the true story of the unsinkable lady from Colorado and makes an amusing contrast with the legend.
12) The real West
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Pub. Date
1996.
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The Real West is a joint exhibition of the Colorado Historical Society, Denver Art Museum and Denver Public Library (the Civic Center Cultural Complex).
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Pub. Date
c2009
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"Destined to become Colorado's foremost muralist, Allen Tupper True set out as a youthful illustrator of magazines and books. His illustrations, like his sun-drenched paintings of Taos and Santa Fe, forged a vision of the American West that was at once romantic and realistic. True went on to paint grand murals for Denver's Telephone Building and the state capitols of Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming. He designed the Wyoming license plate's emblematic...
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Pub. Date
c1995
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Utilizing archival photographs, artifacts, works of art, live on-site footage, and live interviews with people connected to the stories you'll explore the feelings and emotions of a 19-year-old bride who made the trip from Westport Landing, Missouri, to Santa Fe with her new husband. The stories behind the young trapper and adventurer Louis Gerrard are told, as well as the story of the culinary expertise of Charlotte Green, the black slave of William...
16) Coal camp kids
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Pub. Date
c1995
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Utilizing archival photographs and live on-site footage, the stories of the children of miners who came from all over the world to settle in Colorado mining camps and mine coal in the Rocky Mountains is told.
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