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Muddy's Chronicles: Memoirs from the Last Great Coffeehouse by Bill Stevens Publisher Comments Philosophical coffeehouses, those hotbeds of liberal ideas, poetry readings, strange cigarettes, and all-night jazz sessions, were a hallmark of the Beat era. Muddy's Java Cafe hosted the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and virtually all of Denver... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ritual Ground by Douglas C Comer Publisher Comments From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Colorado 1870-2000 Revisited: The History Behind the Images by Thomas Noel Publisher Comments The actual retail price on this book is now $9.98.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean Publisher Comments When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Aspen by Sally Perez Publisher Comments A History of Aspen utilizes a narrative style and 82 historic photos to recount the saga of Aspen and the role of its leading citizens as Aspen roller-coasted from a thriving mining town and Colorado's third largest city, through a period of quiet, to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Fences, New Neighbors by Peter Decker Publisher Comments An account of Ouray County, Ridgway, and the unexpected and uninvited external forces that suddenly descended on a sleepy agricultural community where three generations of farmers and ranchers had tended to their crops and livestock through the rhythms... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Drawing to an inside Straight: The Legacy of an absent Father by Jodi Varon Publisher Comments Life can sometimes hinge on the turn of a card—not only the gambler’s life but also the lives of those close to him.For Jodi Varon, one fateful turn changed her father’s life—propelling her into a search far from home that will lead readers to a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown by Caroline Bancroft Publisher Comments The rollicking story of the Leadville waitress who reached the top of Newport society -- and a permanent place in American lore -- as a heroine of the Titanic disaster.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Pamphlet
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High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women by Marilyn Griggs Riley Publisher Comments What do Louise Sneed Hill, May Bonfils Stanton, Justina L. Ford, Helen Bonfils, Mary Coyle Chase, and Caroline Bancroft have in common? They are all a vital part of Colorado's history--and no one has ever written a book-length biography about any of them.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Never Knew That about Colorado: A Quaint Volume of Forgotten Lore by Abbott Fay Publisher Comments Winner of numerous awards and sales contests. People love this book! Did you know ... -- Adolph Hitler owned a ranch in Colorado -- Colorado was bombed by the Japanese during WWII -- It once snowed ducks on 1-70 -- The Brown Palace in Denver has a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Riding High: Colorado Ranchers and 100 Years of the National Western Stock Show by Thomas J Noel About the Author Thomas J. Noel is a noted Colorado historian and author of several books on Colorado, including Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis, coauthored with Stephen C. Leonard.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Colorado's Colorful Characters by Gladys Bueler Publisher Comments Vignettes of colorful individuals who have had an impact on Colorado's history, including Zebulon Pike, Chief Ouray, Horace Tabor, Mollie Brown, Nicholas Creede, and cannibal Alferd Packer, whose judge said, "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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University Park and South Denver (Images of America) by Steve Fisher Publisher Comments The University of Denver had existed for less than 30 years when the decision was made to relocate the campus from its original site downtown to a place several miles to the south, a move completed in 1892. The town of South Denver grew up around... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pikes Peak Backcountry: The Historic Saga of the Peak's West Slope by Celinda Reynolds Kaelin Publisher Comments This is the story of the other side of Colorado's best-known mountain- the region west of Pikes Peak. It includes stories of the first settlers and the founders of towns. It also tells of the bust years between world wars when the railroad tracks were... (read more) List Price $12.76 Your price: $11.32 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women of Consequence: The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame by Jeanne Varnell Publisher Comments The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame was founded in 1985, by a group of women who were concerned that both historic and contemporary women who shared foresight, vision, enthusiasm, and the power of accomplishment were not receiving appropriate... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Grave Images: San Luis Valley by Kathy Hettings Publisher Comments Cemeteries are the repositories of history and personal narrative, places of comfort and beauty. Beginning in 1994, photographer and installation artist Kathy T. Hettinga began a fourteen-year project to document an unknown body of funerary folk art... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Colorado History by Carl Ubbelohde Publisher Comments "A Colorado History has been widely recognized as an exemplary work of its kind, comfortably adapted to the needs of the intelligent public and of any scholar who may be untrained in this particular field."... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest by Douglas C. Comer Publisher Comments From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Remarkable Colorado Women (More Than Petticoats) by Gayle Corbe Shirley Publisher Comments Profiles the remarkable lives of fourteen Colorado women, each of whom left a profound and lasting legacy. These pioneering women, all born before 1900, broke down barriers through their work in various fields. Among the amazing women you'll discover are... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Colorado Impressions by Eric Wunrow Publisher Comments Colorado photographer Wunrow combines brilliant color landscape photography with cityscapes, building closeups, small-town scenes, and the Centennial State's mountains and waters.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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