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"The discovery of gold and silver in Colorado's Rocky Mountains minted millionaires by the ton. The rough settlements of miners and ranchers quickly transformed into habitations more suitable for the newly wealthy class. William Newton Byers founded the Centennial State's first newspaper and built an Italianate-style palace with the proceeds, while Walter Scott Cheesman's Capitol Hill home later became the governor's residence. Stroll into the parlors...
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A high-altitude alligator farm. A UFO watchtower. A monument to a headless chicken. While other travel guides tell you about tackling Pikes Peak, skiing the back bowls, or rafting down the Arkansas River, this quirky regional resource offers unusual travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Imagine regaling coworkers with unique Rocky Mountain adventures, like spending an evening at a drive-in movie . . . in a queen-sized bed, or visiting...
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2 Guns Publishing
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2017.
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xiv, 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Captures the story of the everyday life of an early settlement (Trinidad) in the Southern Rockies of Colorado. The stories, based on real actual events, are all inclusive to the territories that extended as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. From the Texas Longhorn Trailing Cowboys to the neutral strip cattle rustlers of Oklahoma, there is western suspense throughout the prairie grasslands, the canyon lands, and the Rocky Mountains....
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TwoDot
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2020.
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xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Colorado really was the Wild West with foundations go back to gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and shady characters along with hardworking miners, ranchers and town people. Colorado wasn't for the faint of heart, and the backbone that ran through it was a four-letter word. Gold. This is a lively history that looks at the wicked side of progress on the frontier"--
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