Colorado Mountain Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colorado Mountain Women write by Sherie Schmauder. This book was released on 2003. Colorado Mountain Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vividly portrays the daily lives of several women and how they battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions. All the stories are fictional, but all are based on women's actual experiences. The West could not have progressed and prospered without the strength, courage, and determination of such women.
The Magnificent Mountain Women
The Magnificent Mountain Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Magnificent Mountain Women write by Janet Robertson. This book was released on 2020-08-05. The Magnificent Mountain Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado write by Robert W. Audretsch. This book was released on 2017. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world was without hope for many of Colorado's young men in 1933. Youth unemployment was 25 percent and another 29 percent were working only part-time. Many quit school before graduation to work odd jobs to support their families. Others took to hitching rides on railroad cars desperate for a new opportunity. Even young men who finished their schooling were without work as they had no job experience or training. Then, in 1933, with the beginning of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) young men could go to work in Colorado's national parks, state parks, national forests and other public lands. They no longer worried where their next meal would come from. Now they could learn new job skills. In Colorado CCC boys planted trees, erected fences and telephone lines and put out forest fires. Today we still use the roads and trails they built. CCC work was made to last. At the program's end in 1942 over 30,000 Colorado men served at over one hundred twenty camps. And work was completed in nearly every county in the state. Robert W. "Bob" Audretsch retired as a National Park Service ranger at Grand Canyon in 2009 after nearly 20 years of service. Since then, he has devoted himself full time to research and writing about the Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC). Bob grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University where he received a BA in history and a MS in library science. Prior to his work as a ranger, he was a librarian in Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado. Bob has a lifelong interest in history, nature, books, and art and has written numerous publications in the fields of library science, sports, and history. Bob is the author of Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch (Arcadia Publishing, 2012), Shaping the Park and Saving the Boys: The Civilian Conservation Corps at Grand Canyon, 1933-1942 (Dog Ear Publishing, 2011), We Still Walk in Their Footprint: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Arizona, 1933-1942 (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013), Selected Grand Canyon Area Hiking Routes, Including the Little Colorado River and Great Thumb (Dog Ear Publishing, June, 2014) and, with Sharon Hunt, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona (Images of America) (Arcadia Publishing). He resides in Lakewood, Colorado.
Colorado Women
Colorado Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colorado Women write by Gail M. Beaton. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Colorado Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains write by Isabella Lucy Bird. This book was released on 1893. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
