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Pub. Date
2023
Description
This book is a story of heroes - a newspaper editor igniting the effort to build a hospital, doctors treating severely injured miners at all hours of the day and night, dedicated nurses caring for the sick and injured, prominent citizens stepping forward to provide critical financial aid to save the hospital, a mysterious doctor arriving in town with a revolutionary idea to save miners' lives, and finally, farsighted citizens joining together to not...
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Series
A Now you know bio volume no. 11
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Biography of the wife of Chief Ouray of the Ute Indians in Colorado. She was born Kiowa Apache. Her parents were both killed in a raid shortly after her birth. The Tabegauche (Uncompahgre) Utes found and raised her as their own. They named her Chipeta, meaning White Singing Bird. She was appointed to care for Chief Ouray's son after the death of his first wife, and in 1859 they were married.
56) Images of the San Juans: historic selections from the Ruth and Marvin Gregory photograph collection
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Images of the San Juans is a rare treat--a collection of over 250 photos, many never before published, of the life and times of the people of the San Juan region of southwestern Colorado. These photographs were taken from the extensive collection of Ruth and Marvin Gregory, a couple whose love for the San Juan Mountains is evident. Their friend, Ouray historian, P. David Smith, has supplied the captions as only he can--with great care, with, and wonder....
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Ex-police detective David Dean, his new wife and his stepfather have just opened Bird Song, a bed and breakfast set in beautiful Ouray, Colorado. When their first guest turns up dead and second fears she may be next, the trio unwittingly becomes involved in a bizarre search for a reluctant heir while trying to remain a step ahead of their bevy of guests, each with and entirely different agenda. --book jacket
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