Colorado historical documents

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Reference material on Colorado's people, places and activities.

Historical Documents

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  The new empire of the Rockies : a history of northeast Colorado, Mehls, Steven F,, United States. Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office. See page 94, Transportation issues.
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  "Colorado" Legard, Allayne Beaumont, b. 1847 pub. 1872, A journal of travel to Colorado from New York.
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  "An isolated empire - a history of northwest Colorado" Atheam, Frederic J. United States Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office Pub. 1976
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  "Frontier in transition - a history of southwestern Colorado" O'Rourke, Paul M. United States Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office, 1980
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  History of West-Central Colorado, 1982 Mehls, Steven F, United States Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office, Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-351)
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  "The Historical opportunity in Colorado" Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948, Pub. Reprinted from The University of Colorado Studies, Vol. Ill, No. i, November, 1905
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  "History of Colorado", Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920 pub. 1918, all that is set forth pertaining to important events of public interest in the departments of state history—the military', industrial, educational, religious and social organizations and their progress and results'—has been taken from the records, reports and archives, national and state, of the government and administrative bodies relating to the several topics.
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  "A preliminary bibliography of Colorado history", Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948, 1906, Reprinted from University of Colorado Studies, Vol. Ill, No. 3, Boulder, Colo., June, 1906.
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  "History of Colorado", Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, Chicago : S. J. Clarke 1918
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  "True history of some of the pioneers of Colorado", 1909 Shaw, Luella, b. 1886 Pub. Hotchkiss, Colo. : W. S. Coburn, J. Patterson and A. K. Shaw
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  History to 1876, pub. Boulder, The University of Colorado, 1906
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  "Progressive men of western Colorado" A.W. Bowen (Firm : Chicago, Ill.), 1905

Addtional biblio.

• ORLANDO J. HOLLISTER, The Mines of Colorado (Springfield, Mass., 1867).
• FRANK FOSSETT, Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region (Denver: Daily Tribune Steam Printing House, 1876).
• FRANK HALL, History oj the State of Colorado (4 vols., illustrated; Chicago, 1889).
• HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT, History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 (San Francisco' 1800; Vol. XXV of his Works).
• WILLIAM N. BYERS, "History of Colorado," in Encyclopedia of Biography of Colorado, Vol. I (Chicago: The Century Publishing and Engraving Company, 1901).
• History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado (Chicago,1890), History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado (Chicago, 1800); History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado (Chicago, 1891).
• DAVID BOYD, A History of Greeley and the Union Colony of Colorado (Greeley, Colo., 1800).
• See the Encyclopedia of Biography, noted above, and Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity, Colorado, Containing Portraits and Biographies nf Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States (Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co., 1898).
• JEROME C. SMILEY, History of Denver, with Outlines of the Earlier History of the Rocky Mountain Country (Denver, 1901).

Archaeology

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  Archaeological investigations, 1984
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  Faults, Fossils and Canyons, 1986
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  "A bibliography of the archeology of southwestern Colorado - Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, and Montezuma Counties" Hull, Deborah A and Scott, Douglas D., joint author United States Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office, 1976

Biology

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  Birds of Colorado
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  Further Notes on birds of Colorado, 1898
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  Colorado Wild Flower - Seed Catalogue 1907
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  Flora of Boulder,1911
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  Colorado Nursery Company, 1896

Natural Resources

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  Map of the routes to the Pike's Peak gold fields. Commissioned by J.S. Fillmore, a land speculator and merchant.
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  Colorado Industrial Plan, Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, pub. 1916
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  The Forest Resource of Colorado, 1964
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  Tourist guide, pub. 1903
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  Natural Resources of Colorado, 1889
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  Conditions in the mines, 1914
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  Prospectus, Gregory Gold Mining Company, 1863
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  Rocky Mountain gold and silver mining region, 1873
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  The Colorado View Book, 1904
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  Minerals of Colorado, 1887
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  Carolings, Brown, 1904

Rivers

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  Change name of Grand River
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  Colorado River basin surveys 1917
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  Governor's message on the Colorado River Compact c.1923

Railroads

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  "Under the turquoise sky of Colorado", 1908 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway company
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  William A. Bell at Union Station, pub. 1920
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  Economic history, 1909
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  Opinions of the Judge and the Colonel, pub. 1899
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  "A Colorado summer. Season 1914", Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company. Passenger Dept., 1914
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  Colorado a Union Pacific RR pamphlet 1909

Civil Government

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  Outline of History and Government, 1919
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  Civil government of Colorado, 1920
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  Public documents, pub. 1910
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  Bench and Bar of Colorado 1917

Boundaries

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  Boundaries of Colorado
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  Boundaries Colorado counties, pub. 1906

Medical

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  Pulmonary Hemorrhages in Colorado, pub. 1897

Military

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  Colorado Volunteers
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  Location of Army Recuperation Camp, 1917
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  Stratographic Results of Reconnaissance in Western Colorado, c. 1922
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  The Coal Strike of Colorado, 1913-1914