Four stories illustrate the use of wagon trains and railroads in Colorado from the late 19th century through the early 20th century.

Four brief stories depict life in Colorado at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Four stories describe life in Colorado's mountain mining camps of Leadville, Caribou, Ouray, and Cripple Creek in the late 1800's.

A fictionalized biography of the Nebraskan writer, Mari Sandoz (1866-1966), one of the first to show sympathy for the Indians. It describes her struggle to overcome her father's opposition to her ambition to be a writer.

Four stories depict life in late 19th-century Colorado.

Four brief stories depict scientific concerns of early Colorado: the collecting of botanical specimens; the invention of a low-cost way to separate ores; the discovery of dinosaur bones; and the treatment of tuberculosis.

Four stories portray life in late 19th-century Colorado.