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Thomas F. Walsh tells the story of one of the West's wealthiest mining magnates - an Irish American prospector and lifelong philanthropist who struck it rich in Ouray County, Colorado.

Winner of the 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry Intimacy is a series of experimental poems that play with, resist, and acknowledge complicity with received concepts of intimacy that circulate in this media-centric age. Undertaking an expansive understanding of the word "intimacy", each poem contains a word or set of words that modifies the noun, uncovering the attending, associative and often contradictory obligations that arise in our relations ...

As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry and the state. First published in 1982, Song of the Hammer and Drill, with the help of more than 100 historical photographs, traces the mining and urban history of the San Juans from 1860 to 1914 through the lives of the people who opened, settled, and developed the beautiful but rugged mineral-...

Designed to be more like a book of stories than a textbook, this book foregoes the tradition of placing questions and activity suggestions with the text itself. It contains some basic questions you may want to use to reinforce and check on your students' understanding of what they are reading.

Bill Hosokawa, documents for the first time the richly storied heritage of Japanese Americans in the state.

Based upon extensive ethnographic data, "A Roof Over My Head" examines the lives of homeless women--many with children--who live in small shelters and transitional living centers. Previous literature on homelessness has focused on those living literally on the streets or in large armory-style shelters, and such studies have often overlooked those women who are the subject of Williams's research. The author draws upon interviews with homeless w...

Drawing from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology, this work explores the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organisation, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition.

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In this groundbreaking book, Claudia Agostoni examines modernization in Mexico City during the era of Porfirio Diaz. She outlines the relationship of "enlightened" ideals of orderliness and hygiene to Mexican initiatives in public health. The implementation of new health policies and programs--such as the construction of a drainage system for the Valley of Mexico--were of utmost importance for the symbolic legitimization of Porfirio Diaz's dur...

As the twenty-first century commences, the countries of Pacific Asia are grappling with the impact of regional development, industry, and growth on their increasingly acute environmental problems. International Environmental Cooperation: Politics and Diplomacy in Pacific Asia brings together innovative and insightful studies of international environmental politics in this increasingly critical part of the world.The first section of the book ex...

Michael Robinson tracks America's wolves and attitudes toward predators through U.S. history, detailing the evolution of federal wildlife-extermination programs.

Lays out a new understanding of rural households by investigating the basis of diversity and differentiation as well as the sources for variations in household wealth, production, and size in pre-Colonial Central America.

Details the physical environment, biological communities, human history, and points of interest in Eastern San Juan Mountains. This book focuses on the geology, hydrology, animal and plant life, human histories, and travel routes of these eastern slopes. It informs researchers, educators, and students about the region's complex systems.

Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake...

The Boys of Winter, new in paperback, tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis....

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State UniversityMountain West Poetry Series "These poems are intent on calling out the migratory beauty of this world, in a neighbor-voice: friendly, from the yard nearby, pointing out stuff we might not have noticed. They frequently employ that most ancient of forms, the list, to show us what we shine a light on, what we look past, what we reflect, what we miss. In that way, they spe...

Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood.

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An excellent book with which to begin research on Colorado women of any period ...a good beginning in appreciating the important contributions of Colorado women." -- Pat Pascoe, former Colorado state senator and author of "Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist

In Incidence of Travel, archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Combining travel narrative and archaeology in a series of essays--accounts of discoveries, mishaps of travel, and encounters with modern people living in ancient places--Incidence of Travel will eng...