Colorado History: Digital Collection
This material represents a selection of the digital items related to Colorado history available through Pikes Peak Library District's eLibrary.
Colorado: A State History Anthology by eBook (Biblioboard)
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
Colorado Curiosities: Rattlesnake Kate, The Crying Bridge, Kit Carson's Last Trip & More by eBook (Freading; or OverDrive/Libby)
The Bad Old Days of Colorado: Untold Stories of the Wild West by eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
Buffalo Soldiers on the Colorado Frontier by eBook (OverDrive/Libby)Colorado History: Physical Collection
This material represents a selection of the physical items related to Colorado history available through Pikes Peak Library District's physical material collection.
Colorado Forts: Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier by Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of Colorado for generations to come. As the settlers struggled to survive desperate times, economic depressions and bloody wars, some of these historic outposts would become Colorado's cities, schools, hospitals and museums, while others would sink back into the mud from which they came. Join author Jolie Anderson Gallagher as she chronicles the stories of the forts and the early explorers, fur trappers, soldiers and wives who constructed and occupied them.
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, An Untold American Story by In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the little known and under-reported women who played monumental roles in one of the most vibrant and transformative periods in the history of the United States. Alongside their victories, Gallagher explores the women who were less privileged by race and class, the Native American, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian women, yet joined the fight for universal equality. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, including personal letters and diaries, Gallagher weaves together the striking achievements of those who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps, but played a crucial, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement, and forever redefined the 'American woman.'"
Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, On the Stage, Behind the Badge by This book surveys the life and work of black cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. It includes previously published articles and new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections--"Cowboys on the Range," "Performing Cowboys," and "Outriders of the Black Cowboys"--the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience.
Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the present by Journalist and author Bill Hosokawa offers the first history of Japanese Americans in Colorado, documenting the richly storied heritage of Japanese Americans in the state from 1886 to the present.
The Granite Attraction: Stories of the Pikes Peak Highway and Summit by This book begins in 1888, with the first efforts to get wheeled vehicles and their passengers to the summit of Pikes Peak. 15 years earlier, the U. S. Army established a weather station at the top of the mountain and manned it all year round with human observers. These two activities have resulted in the mountain being an attraction for visitors, innkeepers, skiers, hunters, and fishermen. Individuals and corporations have been motivated by the challenge of the highway to get their horseless carriages, automobiles, race cars, motorcycles, bicycles, basketballs, wheelbarrows, peanuts, and pianos to the top of the mountain. People have attempted to get rich by selling a piece of the mountain.Resources at PPLD's Special Collections, in the 1905 Carnegie Library (located in the Penrose Library)
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