Las Animas - Bent County Library District

"...explores the extraordinary history and heritage of Colorado's Latino culture from the 1500s to the 1940s--from the Aztecas and the Spanish Conquistadors to the 1846 U.S./Mexican War, from the rise of the migrant farm workers to the zoot suits riots, and everything in between"--Container.

" ... examines the Colorado Chicano Movement during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Riveting first-hand accounts speak to the significant social issues of out time--empowerment, identity, racial conflict, civil rights and cultural pride."--Container.

Examines the towns and mines where early Colorado pioneers lived and worked. Includes information about Leadville, and the mining camps of Lake County and Park County.

West of the San Juan Mountains. The Four Corners Monument, travel the Navajo Trail Hwy 160, Towaoc, Cortez & Mesa Verde National Park, Dolores to Rico, follow the RGS NG RR back to Dolores, into Mancos, Hesperus into Durango.

Built in 1868, Territorial Prison was the first to house inmates in the Colorado Territory, before Colorado became a state. since then, the prison system has gone through many changes and Territorial has seen them all. riots, escapes, and executions have given Territorial quite the reputation. Incredible wardens have raised eyebrows as well as awareness of the need for reform. After undergoing the trials and tribulations that over a century of...

Award winning documentary filmmakers, Robin Kathy and Shelly Beeck, with the help of filmmakers Michael Moore, have spent the last five years filming a 60-minute feature-length documentary on Bredo Morstoel, a Norwefian who was frozen by his grandson in 1983. Since then, the world famous...well...stiff has been lying under 800 pounds of dry ice in a tuff shed behind his grandsons castle-like house in the 9000-ft. Colorado ski town of Nederland. The...

Sodra Jackson Kellogg manned the tower during the summers of 1960 and 1962 with her husband, Jim Jackson. This video describes life on the tower, the detection of forest fires, and the history of the Mt. Thorodin Fire Lookout from 1949 until it was dismantled in 1996. Also includes information about and images of other fire lookouts along the Front Range, From Wyoming border to Devil's Head Fire Lookout in the Pike National Forest.

The heart of the San Juan Mountains. From Silverton, their 3 RRS & mines, to Red Mt. Pass, Alpine Loop and Emogene Pass, to Ouray, D&RGRR, on to Ridgway, Montrose, wandering sideways, and back to Ridgway.

"Colorado Experience examines one of the lesser-Known chapter in American organized crime: the story of the Smaldones, an Italian -American crime family that operated out of Denver. Brothers Clyde and Eugene Smaldone took control of Denver's underworld in 1933, after then-crime boss Joe Roma's body was found riddled with bullets in his-home. They specialized in bootlegging during the years of prohibition and , later bookmaking and gambling. To some,...

From Denver to D.C., this DVD collection explores the heart of America's scenic beauty and legendary trains.