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A story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice.

The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. This book presents and celebrates the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's exceptional anthropology collections. It includes 123 full-colour images to highlight the museum's cultural treasures.

Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the south-western corner of Colorado. Duane A. Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 "discovery" of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. Smith also details the resulting creation of a national park in ...

The Yellowstone Story traces the history of the Yellowstone region from the time when hunters and gatherers migrated into the Rocky Mountains thousands of years ago to the post-World War II era when tourists began inundating Yellowstone National Park. Volume I takes the account from prehistoric times through the mid-1880s, with emphasis on t

African Renaissance: Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and reviv...

Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.

Human habitation in Colorado's San Luis Valley stretches back to distant times. Ancient peoples lived there thousands of years ago, as did the Utes, who claim the valley has been theirs forever. Others, both native peoples and Europeans, knew the valley -- Don Juan de Onate claimed the valley for King Phillip II of Spain in 1598. Consequently, the San Luis Valley has many stories, told in many voices.In this sparkling new edition of The San Lu...

The foremost study of the history of crime in Denver, CO, using a unique and invaluable historic source - the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe.

An engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents bring the valley's storied past to life.

Account of the original Japanese immigrants and their role in the American West.

Tells the story of Rocky Mountain in its brief tenure as a national park. This book includes the traces of human activity in the region and outlines the major events of exploration, settlement, and exploitation.

In Mining Among the Clouds, Harvey N. Gardiner examines what one reporter dubbed "aerial" mining - silver mining at such high altitudes that the miners were literally working among the clouds. In the summer of 1871, two prospectors ventured high up Mount Bross in Colorado's Mosquito Range. There they discovered an outcropping of silver ore in blue limestone. An unprecedented find, it set off strike after strike in Park County. Thus began the s...

This is the first illustrated guide dedicated to the loop trails of Rocky Mountain National Park trails that return hikers to their starting point without retracing steps or walking on roads. Circuits range from a 15-minute stroll around a lake to strenuous all-day outings in the high country.

How has American Indians' participation in the broader market--as managers of casinos, negotiators of oil leases, or commercial fishermen--challenged the U.S. paradigm of economic development? Have American Indians paid a cultural price for the chance at a paycheck? How have gender and race shaped their experiences in the marketplace? Contributors to Native Pathways ponder these and other questions, highlighting how indigenous peoples have sim...

Features Victorian and turn-of-the-century buildings and the people who first came to Northwest Denver. The book describes the area's incorporated suburbs of the 1800's, the farms, the early amusement parks. It includes maps, photographs, street names, a bibliography, index, and suggested tours.

Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45), at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. This is an account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust.

Tell Me, Grandmother is at once the biography of Goes-in-Lodge, a traditional Arapaho woman of the nineteenth century, and the autobiography of her descendant, Virginia Sutter, a modern Arapaho woman with a Ph.D. in public administration. Sutter adeptly weaves her own story with that of Goes-in-Lodge--who, in addition to being Sutter's great-grandmother, was first wife of Sharpnose, the last chief of the Northern Arapaho nation. Writing in a q...