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  • Mesa Verde National Park

    by Duane A. Smith ...
    Series series Images of America
    Mesa Verde National Park was America's first cultural park and also the world's first cultural heritage park. Created in 1906, it preserves the sites and materials of the prehistoric Puebloan people. Located in southwestern Colorado near the famous Four Corners, where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet, the magnificent Mesa Verde is situated in Montezuma County, just south ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies

    Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century

    by Christine Bradley, Duane A Smith ...
    Series series Mining the American West
    There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.One of the earliest mining communities in the state, Georgetown ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Colorado

    The Highest State, Second Edition

    by Thomas J. Noel, Duane A. Smith ...
    Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. The second edition is the result of a major revision, with updates ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Trail of Gold and Silver

    Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009

    by Duane A. Smith ...
    Series series Timberline Books
    In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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    The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    by Michael Punke ...
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  • Out Where the West Begins

    Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders

    by Philip F. Anschutz, William J. Convery, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American West. They were people of imagination and courage, adept at maneuvering the rapids of change, alert ... Read more

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  • Rising Tide

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

    by John M. Barry ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long ... Read more

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  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    by Marc Reisner, Lawrie Mott ...
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  • Colossus

    Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

    by Michael Hiltzik ...
    As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel.Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses ... Read more

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  • Transportation and the American People

    by H. Roger Grant ...
    This "outstanding contribution to transportation history" chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes ( Choice).Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of ... Read more

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  • Ghost Towns of the Southwest

    Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps & Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico

    by Jim Hinckley, Kerrick James ...
    A traveler's guide to ghost towns and historic villages of Arizona and New Mexico, featuring maps, historical background, and color photos.The Southwest is home to an enticing array of ghost towns and historic villages. Once-bustling mining camps, frontier towns, and railroad towns stand today as reminders of the glory days of mining and the Wild West. Historic buildings, abandoned schoolhouses, ... Read more

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  • Coal Trains

    The History of Railroading and Coal in the United States

    by Brian Solomon, Patrick Yough ...
    From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary ... Read more

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