Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Stampede to Timberline. The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado....
Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Stampede to Timberline
Author:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Stampede to Timberline
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster
Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
Author:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries
Author:
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 0870045652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 0870045652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains
Author: Jan MacKell
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082634612X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082634612X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.
Colorado
Author: Marshall Sprague
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393301380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Those who travel to look at Colorado will find as much meaning in Marshall Sprague's well-told story of its historical conflict as will those who live with the beauty--and the challenge.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393301380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Those who travel to look at Colorado will find as much meaning in Marshall Sprague's well-told story of its historical conflict as will those who live with the beauty--and the challenge.
Comedian of the Frontier
Author: Margaret McCutcheon Lauterbach
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147662495X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825-1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East. Langrishe provided entertainment to prospectors, miners and their families in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho. He followed the expanding frontier from the old Northwest Territory to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and enjoyed his share of luck--he was out of town during the 1871 Chicago Fire, and was traveling through Indian territory at the same time Custer's command was being wiped out a day's ride away. Best known as a gifted comic actor and producer of fine dramas, Langrishe also edited newspapers, was an Idaho state senator and served as a justice of the peace. Here for the first time is the complete story of the father of theater in the West.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147662495X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825-1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East. Langrishe provided entertainment to prospectors, miners and their families in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho. He followed the expanding frontier from the old Northwest Territory to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and enjoyed his share of luck--he was out of town during the 1871 Chicago Fire, and was traveling through Indian territory at the same time Custer's command was being wiped out a day's ride away. Best known as a gifted comic actor and producer of fine dramas, Langrishe also edited newspapers, was an Idaho state senator and served as a justice of the peace. Here for the first time is the complete story of the father of theater in the West.