Author : Larry Thomas Ward
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Canon City (Colo.)
ISBN : 9780972946643
It was an authentic Wild West town, with stagecoaches, saloons, barfights, hangings, shootings, and vigilante justice. By the 1890s, Ca-on City had grown from its days of lawlessness to become one of the most agriculturally advanced areas in the country. Accompanied by more than 200 vintage photographs, author Larry Thomas Ward takes the reader through Ca-on City's early frontier history.
Author : Victoria R. Newman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439634289
Caon City sits in a geological bowl surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Historically, it has been known as the prison capital of the world, with eight soon to be ninestate prisons in the area and four federal facilities located 11 miles away in Florence. The first prison in Caon City was built in 1868, before Colorado became a state, and was opened in 1871. Originally known as the Colorado Territorial Penitentiary, it is currently called the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility and holds approximately 800 male inmates. Caon City has grown up around the prisons, and the areas colorful history is defined by daring prison breaks, infamous inmates, such as the Colorado cannibal Alferd Packard, and by the stories of the inmates and employees who have been part of the prison system.
Author : Tracy Beach
Publisher : Johnson Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555664589
Have you ever seen a manhole cover with little glass circles in it and wondered why it was different from the others? Did you ever imagine that there were actually tunnels under the sidewalks? You'll be surprised to find out how many cities in Colorado had these tunnels. And they're still under our streets Those manhole covers imbedded with glass circles, many that have turned purple with age, allowed light into the tunnels below. The Tunnels Under Our Feet explores these tunnels, or what's left of them, with lively prose and interesting historical stories. Join the author on her dusty yet exciting adventures as she crawls through basements dodging spiderwebs looking for tunnel entrances, many of which are now fi lled in. But it's not hard to speculate where they go if you're diligent enough to follow the trail.
Author : Davalynn C Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998951249
The complete 3-book series, inspirational Western romance
Author : James E. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Colorado
ISBN :
Examines early 20th-century fact and myth surrounding Old Mose, the feared grizzly bear of Black Mountain, in Fremont County, Colorado.
Author : Richard Hogan
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
'A significant contribution to historical sociology that shows how economic/class relations within frontier communities determined the shape of the political system.' -Scott G. McNall
Author : William Gilpin
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1860
Category : North America
ISBN :
"In a series of articles and speeches, which were summarized in his best known publication, The Central Gold Region: The Grain, Pastoral and Gold Regions of North America (1860), Gilpin argued that the development of the interior of the continent, made possible in large part by a properly-sited transcontinental railroad, would create a new and dominant commercial line of communication between Europe and Asia. This would inaugurate a new era in human affairs focused around what would become the greatest civilization in history, the Republican Empire of North America"--Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy website.
Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2018-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781719553469
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Author : Stephen M. Voynick
Publisher : Mountain Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780878422920
Your complete guide to the state's rich and varied mineral, gemstone, and fossil sources. In Colorado, rockhounds may pick agate and petrified wood from the vast Great Plains, follow dinosaur tracks on hogback ridges, pan gold in mountain streams, hunt g
Author : Bob D. Antonio
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9781450711647
