Author: Rex MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Marble, Colorado
Author: Rex MyersMarble, Colorado
Author: Duane VandenbuschePublisher:
ISBN: 9780873150255
Category : Marble (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Marble, Colorado: City of Stone
Author: Duane Vandenbusche, Rex MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Colorado Yule Marble
Author: E. S. McGeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
An investigation of differences in durability of the Colorado Yule marble, a widely used building stone.
Pioneer Cemeteries
Author: Annette StottPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the ?Wild West,? cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West. Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the western frontier, from the unkempt ?boot hills? of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined ?fair mounts.? She shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual. Here, widespread participation in a variety of ceremonies brought mountain communities together with a frequency almost unimaginable today. Illustrated with eighty-three striking photographs, this book shows how the pioneer cemetery emerged as a site of public sculpture and cultural transmission in which each carved or molded monument played dual (and sometimes conflicting) public and private roles, recording the community?s history and values while memorializing individuals and events.
Hendricks' Commercial Register of the United States for Buyers and Sellers
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Architects, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
What Lies Beneath Colorado
Author: Eilene LyonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493076191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
What Lies Beneath Colorado Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards explores the hidden personal trials and triumphs discovered in Colorado’s oldest cemeteries, bringing the history of the state to life. Covering the entire state by region, the stories explore Spanish conquest, Native American history, the gold rush, community development, homesteading and ranching, love and loss, conflict and resolution, scandal and honor. Sidebars include material on Hispano culture in southern Colorado, headstones and cenotaphs, notable historic figures, cemetery lore, Ute treaties, crime and punishment. A must read for any fan of western history and an excellent resource for Colorado family historians.
Tripping from the Fall Line
Author: David K. BrezinskiPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081370040X
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
"Emanating from the Fall Line city of Baltimore, site of the 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, these trips reflect the diversity of geological features in the mid-Atlantic region including the Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains, and Coastal Plain, and the importance of geology on the development and construction of the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metropolitan area"--
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Sandra DallasPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
