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Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
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Ballenger & Richards Thirty Sixth Annual Denver City Directory for 1908
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Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
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Publisher:
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Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
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Colorado Theatres, 1859-1969
Author: Benjamin Poff Draper
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Category : Theaters
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Category : Theaters
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Clock and Compass
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver, Colorado, and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city dwellers. He patented his invention called the “Clock System” and tried to sell it to the Post Office Department. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chances at geographic immortality.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver, Colorado, and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city dwellers. He patented his invention called the “Clock System” and tried to sell it to the Post Office Department. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chances at geographic immortality.
Annual Denver City Directory...
Author: Ballenger & Richards, Denver
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Buried Unsung
Author: Zeese Papanikolas
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803287273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and stateømilitia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803287273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and stateømilitia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.
Pioneer Jews
Author: Harriet Rochlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William Harden
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Colorado State Business Directory and Annual Register
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Colorado Springs and Manitou
Author: Edwards Roberts
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Category : Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Pieces of Grace
Author: Karen Gibson
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ISBN: 9781736826706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.
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ISBN: 9781736826706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.