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c2011
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When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop's life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical biography centers on his subsequent...
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This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the "best dressed woman in the West." It was during Baby Doe's final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, solitude, and repentance, that fellow Coloradan...
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[2007]
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IDA: HER LABOR OF LOVE is the true expanded biography of a woman living in Colorado during the late 1800s. Rich in the details of pioneer life, this story enchants, amazes and illuminates the woman's role in civilizing the then raw wilderness of the American West. The reader will be facinated by the life of this frontier woman, experiencing her joys and sorrows along the way.
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2003
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"The exciting, true story of the woman who became one of Colorado's best known figures, honored after her death with a stained glass window in Colorado's capitol, and now the subject of Gabriel's daughter, a new work premiering in 2003 at the world-famous Central City Opera House"--P. [4] of cover.
18) A wild West history of frontier Colorado: pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains
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2011.
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From the Gold Rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. The peaceful frontier quickly transformed into dangerous, lawless territory, where Coloradoans settled their own matters, usually with pistols.
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