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43) Claiming ground
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Pub. Date
2006.
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Colorado s roads wind through country that is steeped in history, sometimes tracing routes with a history of their own, from the Santa Fe Trail to the Million Dollar Highway. But no matter where you roam in this beautiful state, Roadside History of Colorado can guide you. In this long-awaited volume, award-winning history writer Candy Moulton escorts readers through ancient pueblos, perilous trails, mining boomtowns, and modern ski resorts. Like the...
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Colorado is brimming with history...and with treasure! So, the latest treasure story you've heard - the oldster on your neighborhood corner.. your buddies on the treasure forum online - they've managed to get your blood on fire and your heart racing! The lure of lost and forgotten treasure is like laughter. It is better than medicine and good for the soul! --back cover
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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
This book includes nearly 1,000 abandoned sites in Eastern Colorado covering 26 counties from the Colorado foothills eastward. It is a history of ghosts towns on a sea of grass - from stage stations, military forts, once-thriving towns along the cattle trails to agricultural communities. It is a tale of homsesteaders hoping to create a better life for their family. Contemporary photographs document the abandoned buildings and empty fields were people...
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Pub. Date
2013
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"Very little has been written about the "real" northeastern plains of Colorado, the small communities that dot its open, sky-filled, mountainless landscape. Haxtun began as two separate homesteads, "proved up" by Alice Strohm and Kate (Fletcher) Edwards, who sold their land to the Lincoln Land Company in 1887,which led to the founding of the town. The area was generally viewed as useless land in those early days but was promoted as being full of opportunity;...
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Pub. Date
2002.
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A high-altitude alligator farm. A UFO watchtower. A monument to a headless chicken. While other travel guides tell you about tackling Pikes Peak, skiing the back bowls, or rafting down the Arkansas River, this quirky regional resource offers unusual travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Imagine regaling coworkers with unique Rocky Mountain adventures, like spending an evening at a drive-in movie . . . in a queen-sized bed, or visiting...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state's formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community along the Arkansas River Cotopaxi, after a volcano in Ecuador. Rifle Creek and the town of Rifle earned their names thanks to a rifle left behind along the banks of the creek. Optimistic miners mistakenly believed Tarryall had an abundance of gold and thus named it as a place where prospectors could mine and tarry....
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Wilson Rockwell presents twenty-two true tales of cowboys, rustlers, politicians, and the often deadly battles of lawmen in Western Colorado during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Read How: * Fishing rights led to a fatal feud on Grand Mesa in the 1890's. * Too much party celebrating set off a fierce 1880's battle between Durango and Farmington gangs. * A Telluride bank president's swindle helped save millions for his customers. * A cowboy shot...