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The Magazine of History Colorado

2012 November/December $4.95

It’s Not About the Barrel: Broncomania and the Barrel Man Patrick J. Fraker

Denver’s Cheesman Park: A Place for the Living, or the Nonliving? Shawn Snow

Inventing Cherry Creek: 150 Years of an Urban Landscape B. Erin Cole

Not Just Your Granddad’s Diorama: History Colorado’s Early Denver Returns William J. Convery

2012 September/October $4.95

Learning from Colorado’s First Farmers: A Conversation with Richard Wilshusen

Life Lessons from the Beet Field: Growing Up with the Braceros Charles O. Collins

Kuner’s at Suppertime: Reflections of a Third-Generation Kuner Man Charles B. “Chuck” Howe

2012 July/August $4.95

Passport to the Past: A Summer Guide to History Colorado’s Regional Sites


Remembering Ludlow: A Monument for the Masses Natasha Brandstatter

Through the Back Door: My Stay at the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial

Hospital for Unwed Mothers Virginia Hunt Tuft

2012 May/June $4.95

A Keota Patchwork Compiled and annotated by Liz Simmons

An Army of Friends Turned Against Nicaagat Robert Silbernagel

2012 March/April $4.95

Welcome to Your New Museum Kathryn Hill

“A Shelter from Harsh Times”: The African American Mountain Resort of

Lincoln Hills Craig Leavitt

Marlon Green: Denver’s “Jackie Robinson” of the Airlines Flint Whitlock

2012 January/February $4.95

Behind the Scenes: Not Your Grandparents’ History Museum

C. Waldo Love: Denver Artist Stan Cuba



Building a Stronger Colorado

Freedom and Slavery in the Pikes Peak Country, 1859-61 William J. Convery

Glorify Work and Be Happy: The Original Camp Fire Girls of Routt County Catherine H. Ellis


Greening the History Colorado Center

How 1940s Radio, Politics, and Basketball Molded a Platte River Kid Charles B. “Chuck” Howe

The First Stages to Denver: Revisiting the Original Route of the

Leavenworth and Pike’s Peak Express Dorman Lehman


Transforming the Ways We Teach

“Denver Took Me Into Her Arms”: Paul Laurence Dunbar in Colorado, 1899-1900 Gary Scharnhorst and Kadeshia Matthews

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: The Colorado Mineral Palace Natasha K. Brandstatter

2011 May/June $4.95

Behind the Scenes: Forging a New Exhibit Program


Leadville’s First Museum Undergoes Renovations

Shay Steam Locomotive Arrives at Georgetown Loop

Colorado Stories at Denver International Airport


Event Spaces in the New History Colorado Center

White Death in the La Plata Mountains: A Survivor’s Story Andrew Gulliford

Building a Movement and a Monument: The Rise of Tibetan Buddhism in

America and the Construction of Colorado’s Great Stupa Ross R. Webster


The Talent Behind the History Colorado Center

The Midas Touch: A Cautionary Fable of Greed and Bust in Victor Rosemary Lewis

“Carving a Living out of Stone”: Colorado’s Innovative Depression-era Alabaster Industry Jason Marmor


History Colorado Center Topped Out

“Stark and So Massive”: Captain Fischer’s Hike, 1846 Tim Kimball

A Forgotten Theatrical Past: The Federal Theatre Project in Denver David L. Wygant



History Colorado Center: What’s New?

Peak Performances: The Mountaineering Adventures of Henry A. Buchtel III Robert E. Hartley

Great Sand Dunes Wilderness: Creating “The Very Highest Order of Federal

Resource Protection” for North America’s Tallest Inland Dunefield Dietmar Schneider-Hector


Making It Work: The Contributions of Depression-Era Works Programs to

Colorado’s Highway System Jennifer Wahlers

Somebody Else’s Horizon: The Road Trips of Colorado’s First Highway Commissioners Robert Autobee

“Putting a Five-Story Building Through the Mountain”:

How the Straight Creek Tunnel Transformed Colorado Lisa Schoch

2010 May/June $4.95

A New Kind of History Center

Filling Noah’s Ark: Taxidermy, Exhibition, and Conservation in Nineteenth-Century Colorado Larry Borowsky

Butting Heads: Farrington Carpenter’s Dramatic Role in the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 George U. Hubbard



Colorado’s Historical Treasures on the Move

Picturing Poudre Canyon Resorts: A Retrospective through the Eyes of

Photographer Mark Miller Barbara Fleming and Malcolm McNeill

Napoleon’s Colorado Book and Literature’s Weird Connections Cameron M. Burns


History Colorado Reaches Out to Communities

Lost Links: In Search of Estes Park’s Oldest Golf Course James H. Pickering and Derek Fortini

Pikes Peakward on the Smoky Hill Trail Lee Whiteley


Unearthing the Past

A Story Half Told: Agnes Vaille, Colorado’s Mona Lisa in Hobnail Boots Dan Elliot

Columbine Ten Years Later: A Study in American Memorialization Rosemary Lewis


History Colorado Breaks Ground


Seeing Allen True: The Life and Art of an American Muralist Alisa Zahller


No News is Bad News Joe Brown

“If I Ever Grew Up and Became a Man…” The Boys of ’89: A New

Glimpse at William Allen White’s First Summer in Estes Park James H. Pickering and Nancy P. Thomas

Darwinians in the Rockies: Asa Gray, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, and

Alfred Russel Wallace in Colorado, 1872-87 Steve Ruskin

2009 May/June $4.95

Abraham Lincoln in Colorado William J. Convery

Colorado Gold Rush Keith Schrum


Tabeguache Utopia William J. Convery

Selling the Switzerland of America:

Colorado’s Railroads Promote Pleasure and Health Seeking, 1870-1930 Eric L. Clements

Women and Historic Preservation: Barbara Sudler Hornby Stephen J. Leonard



Striking Gold on Clear Creek William J. Convery

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Rise and Fall of Denver’s Floral Industry Rosemary Lewis

A “Grewsome Find”: The Law, Morality, and Three Murders in Black Hawk David Forsyth

2008 Autumn (& Summer) Double Issue $5.95

Plains Grit: More Memories from an Eastern Colorado Farm Wilma Gundy

A Carnival for a Cathedral: The 1906 Carnival of Nations in Denver Modupe Labode

Women Printing Colorado, 1871-2001 Stan Cuba

Climbing the “High Tops” with Mary Cronin and the Colorado Mountain Club Woody Smith

2008 Spring Issue $5.95

“Shall the People Rule?”: Denver Hosts the Democrats, 1908 John Steinle

“Among the Favored Mortals of Earth”: The Press, State Pride, and the

Eclipse of 1878 Steve Ruskin

From the Silver City to Kansas City: August and Emma Meyer in Leadville and

Beyond Jacqui Ainlay-Conley

2008 Winter Issue $5.95


One Flew West: Ken Kesey’s Colorado Childhood Steve Grinstead

From “Go Light” to GoLite: A Brief History of Hiking and Camping Gear in Colorado Ben Fogelberg

Ghosts of the Game: Photographs of Colorado’s Early Pool Halls Steve Grinstead

2007 Autumn Issue $5.95

Sex, Race, and the Fate of Three Nisei Sisters William Wei

Reading the Trees: Colorado’s Endangered Arborglyphs and Aspen Art Andrew Gulliford

The Storybook Trees Bill and Beth Sagstetter

Spares and Splashes: Walt Disney’s Celebrity Sports Center David Forsyth

2007 Summer Issue $5.95

“A Fine Type of Womanhood”: Marguerite Frey’s 1907 Reign as The Denver Post’s

“Most Beautiful” Richard A. Kreck

Miss Helen, Don Seawell, and the Denver Performing Arts Complex Thomas J. Noel, Amy Zimmer

The Sage and Cactus Golf Club: Hugo, Colorado, 1939-42 Keith A. Cook

General John A. Logan: A Name Remembered and Honored in Colorado Robert E. Hartley

2007 Spring Issue $5.95 SPECIAL EDITION

100th Issue – Companion volume to two Colorado History Museum exhibits

Ancient Voices: Stories of Colorado’s Distant Past

Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today



Silver Screens Under Starry Skies: Drive-in Theaters at Colorado’s Corners Mark Wolfe

Winter at Pike’s Stockade Photography by Michael “Spydr” Wren

Cucharas, Colorado: School Days and Spiritual Life in Huerfano County Virginia Sanchez

2006 Autumn Issue $5.95 SPECIAL EDITION

Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today

Buckskin, Beads, and Blankets: Early Photographic Portraits of

Colorado’s American Indians James S. Peterson

Understanding Amache: The Archaeobiography of a Victorian-era

Cheyenne Woman Bonnie Clark

Bunky Echo-Hawk: Paintings and Poems Bunky Echo-Hawk

“Not Just a Pow Wow, a Ute Pow Wow”: The Annual Council Tree Pow Wow in

Delta, Colorado Elisa Phelps

Saul Halyve, Forgotten Hopi Marathon Champion Ben Fogelberg


Escapade Beneath the Cottonwoods: Revisiting Colorado’s

“Nude Duel That Will Not Die” Clark Secrest

A Mixed-Up Mogul Comes Home to Georgetown: The Return of Engine No. 9 Melissa Brock


No Ordinary Day: The 1951 Bomber Crash in Denver’s Hilltop Neighborhood Flint Whitlock


Carousels, Courtrooms, and Colorado Farm Life: An Artist Carves His Own Path Georgia Wier

From Nordenskiold to Nusbaum: Photography, Archaeology, and Tourism in the Early

Years of Mesa Verde National Park Thomas Carr

Looking Across the Divide: The Visual Legacy of Captain John W. Gunnison Eric Paddock


Zebulon Pike in Southern Colorado: A Photo-Travelogue Michael “Spydr” Wren

Minks to Match Our Mountains: Colorado’s Second Fur Trade Era, 1925-1971 William J. Convery

“Now a Sign Adorns Our School”: Colorado’s Forgotten School Improvement Program William L. Sherman

A Folk Music Mecca: Harry Tuft and the Denver Folklore Center Paul Malkoski


A Wilderness Hunter in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, the Western Sportsman Jeremy Johnston

Removing the Mask: The Ku Klux Klan in Bayfield, Colorado Duane A. Smith

From Five Points to Struggle Hill: The Race Line and Segregation in Denver Holly Wasinger

The Man Who Invented the Denver Boot: Frank P. Marugg and His Infamous Auto

Immobilizer Linda Murdock



Healers on the Hill: St. Luke’s and Presbyterian Hospitals of Denver Rebecca Hunt

Alternative Healing at the Crossroads: Denver’s Homeopathic Hospital Succumbs to

Modern Medicine Steve Grinstead

Swedish National Sanatorium: Building Community in a Swedish-American Tuberculosis

Sanatorium, 1905-59 Rebecca Hunt


“Colorado Maid”: The Ghost Industry of Colorado Cigar Making William Reich

“It’s a strange thing to freeze in July”: Will Rankin’s Diary of an 1872 Camping Trip William T. Rankin

A Stronghold of the “Smart Set”: Denver’s Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion Amy Zimmer

“We traded your high chair for a quarter of beef”: Two Years on the Colorado Flats Earle A. Gillis


“The Strangest City in Colorado”: The Amache Concentration Camp William Wei

Americans First: Colorado’s Japanese-American Community during World War II –

An Interview William Wei

“The Answers to the Future Will Be Found in the Past”: A Graduation Speech Marion Konishi

Sixty Years Later: The Remnants of Amache Thomas Carr

The W. J. Carpenter Album of Western Slope Photography

The Legs on the Barroom Ceiling: Emmy Wilson and the Glory Hole Tavern David Forsyth



Snapshots from Old Soddy: A Farm Girl’s Life on the Eastern Colorado Plains in

the 1930s and ‘40s Wilma Davis Gundy

“Now We Are Entering That Other World”: Roger Wolcott Toll and Rocky Mountain

National Park Giles Toll

“Ill-Smelling Bones and a Bad Reputation”: Denver’s Struggle to Stage a

Stock Show Darcy Cooper Schlichting, Thomas J. Noel


“Prairie, Prairie All the Way”: An 1899 Vacation to Colorado Josephine Livers

The Colorado Historical Society at 125 Modupe Labode


“You Have Come a Great Distance from Colorado to Die”: A 10th Mountain Division

Diary of War in Italy Dan L. Kennerly

The Eternal Optimism of John E. Leet Alice Millett Bakemeier

“Hiya Space Pups!”: The 1941 World Science Fiction Convention Patrick Fraker



El Patron de Trinidad: Don Felipe de Jesus Baca Paul D. Andrews, Nancy L. Humphry

Outward and Visible Signs: The Trinidad Legacy of Reverend John O. Ferris Beverly E. Stimson

“X,” “XX,” and “X-3”: Spy Reports from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company Archives Jonathan Rees

Making the Journey to Trinidad: The Sex Reassignment Surgeries of Dr. Stanley Biber Modupe Labode


“Colorado Is Snowbound!”: The Great Front Range Blizzard of 1913

(And Its 2003 Counterpart) William E. Wilson

A Morning in Taos: The Chance Reencounter of a Painter and a Photographer Barbara Dey

Suffering from Want: The Jewish Colony at Cotopaxi Andy Stine


The Cowboy, the Indian, and the Buckaroo: Alexander Phimister Proctor in Colorado Peter H. Hassrick

“Papa bought some cattle”: The Diary of Mary Davis Painter Ben Fogelberg

My Colorado Experience: The Brief Career of a Muleskinner Henry Bridges Jefferson


“I Will Be There”: Prelude to Murder at the Brown Palace Dick Kreck


Cement Bill Williams: Builder of the Lariat Trail Road Robert Sorgenfrei

Homeland Security: A Cold War Scenario Steve Grinstead

Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company: A Twentieth-Century Boom and Bust Dawn Bunyak


Louis Vasquez in Colorado and the Uncertain Histories of Fort Convenience and a

Hunter’s Cabin William E. Wilson

Photography and Archaeology: Parallel Histories, Colorado Perspectives Thomas Carr

Of Mine and Men: Stories Told by Early Records of the Colorado Mining Districts Lloyd W. Gundy


History and Memory: The Story of Denver’s Chinatown William Wei

Flags from the Colorado Historical Society Collection

“Mr. Watson Has Organized a Singing School”: Music Instruction in Denver, 1859-1899 Henry Miles


Delta’s King of Kings: The Egyptian Theatre and the Bank Night Craze Larry Borowsky, Brooke Cleary

The Ghost Town of Silver Creek: A Remnant of the Clear Creek Silver Boom Joseph J. Krupar, Jr.

Impressions of a Renaissance: The Artists of Denver National Bank Jack Henry Kunin

Where Music Dwells: Denver’s Earliest Concert Spaces Henry Miles



Denver’s Orchestral Overtures: Laying the Groundwork for Musical Sophistication Henry Miles

Sweet Magic: One Hundred Years of Baur’s Restaurant Lee Jacobs Carlin

Sin, Gin, and Jasmine: The Controversial Career of Caroline Bancroft Marilyn Griggs Riley


“Simply a Question of Patriotism”: Governor Ralph L. Carr and the Japanese Americans William Wei

Wherever There Is a Harmony: Music in Denver’s Saloons and Churches Henry Miles

Down the Rabbit Hole: Cripple Creek’s “Philosophic Rebel” Steve Grinstead


“Me and Mr. Finch Go Among ‘Em”: Damon Runyon’s Early Years in Colorado Mary Ann McNair

An Unencumbered Song: Charles Deaton and His Sculptured House Nancy L. Widmann

“Good Baptist Weather”: Boulder County and the Flood of 1894 Mona Lambrecht

If You Want It Done Right… Dr. George Balderston Removes His Own Appendix Larry Borowsky


Vance Kirkland: Confronting Colorado in Art Stanley Cuba

Sadie Likens: Patron of the Fallen Annette L. Student


Playing to Win: The Denver Country Club’s Championship Tradition Charles C. Bonniwell, David Fridtjof Halaas


Three Months on a Mountaintop Eva Ray Liggett

The Rooters Versus the Neversweats: Baseball in Southwestern Colorado, 1876-1910 Duane A. Smith

“Happy Days” of the Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado Christine Pfaff

2001 Winter Issue OUT OF PRINT

The Demons of Elizabeth Tabor: Mining “Dreams and Visions” from the Matchless Judy Note Temple

Written in Blood: The Soule-Cramer Sand Creek Massacre Letters Gary L. Roberts, David Fridtjof Halaas

Max Goldberg, Colorado Television Pioneer Owen Chariton


Judge Lynch in Colorado, 1859-1919 Stephen J. Leonard

The “Bloody Espinosas”: Avenging Angels of the Conejos Abstracted by Clark Secrest

“Audacious and Best Executed”: Tom Horn and Colorado’s Cotopaxi Train Robbery Larry D. Ball

Bat Masterson and the Boxing Club War of Denver Robert K. DeArment

No Time for a Trial: The Abrupt Fate of the Reynolds Gang Ariana Harner

A Gallery of Legendary Colorado Badmen Roger D. McGrath

“Black Jack Died Game”: The Bandit Career of Thomas E. Ketchum Clark Secrest



“Mothers Rushed into the Deluge”: Telluride’s Great Flood of 1914 Christian J. Buys

Vanished in the Mountains: The Saga of the Reverend Thornton R. Sampson James H. Pickering

“Life Is Life”: One Family’s Struggle in the Southern Colorado Coalfields Eric Margolis


St. Elmo, Colorado: The Little Mining Camp That Tried Lawrence Von Bamford, Kenneth R. Tremblay, Jr.

Jesse Nusbaum and the Re-creation of Mesa Verde National Park Joseph Owen Weixelman

The Annoying Gene Cervi: A Terror of Colorado Journalism Lee Olson

2000 Winter Issue $4.95 SPECIAL EDITION

20th Century Colorado: Colorado of the 1990s

LUV That SUV Clark Secrest

The Legacy of Boom and Bust David Fridtjof Halaas

Flower Blue: Tragedy and Recovery at Columbine High Steven G. Grinstead

A Long Time Coming: Colorado’s Rockies and Avalanche Patrick Fraker

The Delicate Salvation of Glenwood Canyon Ariana Harner

The Road to DIA David N. Wetzel

The Second Time Around: Legal Gambling Returns to Colorado Ariana Harner

“The Napa Valley of Beer”: Colorado’s Brewpub Phenomenon Richard A. Kreck

We May Never Know: The Perplexing Case of JonBenet Ramsey Clark Secrest



How the Lincoln Highway Snubbed Colorado Mark Wolfe

Earliest Automobiling in Colorado: 1899-1904 Lyle Miller

Colorado’s Fritchle Electric Auto: Cross-Country in 1908

The Brief Career of Denver’s Bandit Chaser


“Learn to Labor and to Wait”: The 1899 Diary of Anna Kennicott with the Glass Plate

Photography of Eugenia Kennicott Edited by Clark Secrest

Avenging Mary Rose: The Lynchings of Margaret and Michael Cuddigan Stephen J. Leonard


“The Singers Are Not on Speaking Terms”: Grand Opera in Denver: 1864-1881 Harlan Jennings

“The Players Redeemed Themselves”: Major League Baseball Visits Colorado in 1888 Larry G. Bowman

Colorado’s Railroad to Nowhere: Building and Rebuilding the Georgetown Loop Dianna Litvak


20th Century Colorado: Colorado in the 1980s


A Turkey in Our Back Yard: The Day Exxon Abandoned Colorado Dianna Litvak

The Singing Marxist Ariana Harner

Ellison Onizuka and the Challenger Catastrophe Dianna Litvak

Armed and Dangerous: The Arrival of John Elway Patrick Fraker

“The Danger Is Real and It Can Kill You!”: The Arrival of AIDS in Colorado Steven G. Grinstead

The Watershed Campaign of Gary Hart Ariana Harner

The Last Back Fence in Town: The Assassination of Alan Berg Clark Secrest

Mayor Bill’s Blizzard Clark Secrest


Of Myth and Men: The Trail of the Black Cowboy Keith Schrum

Spirit of Spider Woman: Tradition and Trade in Navajo Textiles Carolyn McArthur

The Hand of the Law: A Theoretical Plot David Emrich


“Alone Amid the Wind’s Mad Revelry”: The Death of Carrie Welton James H. Pickering

Shipbuilding on a “Mountaintop”: World War II’s Rocky Mountain Fleet Tom Lytle

The Day Little Miracle Died Richard A. Kreck

Henry M. Teller, Colorado’s “Silver Senator” Christian J. Buys

Interacting with the Sacred: American Indian Sports in Colorado James Whiteside



A Whiskey Train and a Doughnut Day: Coming of Age on the Eastern Colorado Plains Keith A. Cook

Oasis in the “Great American Desert”: Early Irrigation Ditch Systems in the Denver Area Kate Lee Kienast

Colorado’s Oddball Road Machines Clark Secrest


20th Century Colorado: Colorado in the 1970s

Casting the First Stone: John Denver Prepares for the Worst Clark Secrest

“Scenic Route Through the Rockies”: The Wichita State University Tragedy Ariana Harner

“No Right to Be Poor”: Colorado’s Drop City Clark Secrest

Little Lies: The Colorado 1976 Winter Olympics Mark S. Foster

Steps to Success: Birth of the Tattered Cover Ariana Harner

Dear Diary: The Death of Spider Sabich Clark Secrest

Astronaut Swigert and His Guardian Angels Ariana Harner

Growing Up Together: LoDo and Westword Clark Secrest


The Hi-Ho, Lucky U, Bugs Bunny, and Sleepy Hollow: A History of Colorado Motels Lyle Miller

Founded by Accident: The Denver Woman’s Press Club Eva Hodges and Cle Cervi

“You Got That Dust Pneumonie”: Dust Bowls and Droughts in Colorado Stephen S. Hart, Thomas J. Noel



Of Frozen Hydrants and “Drunkin Sons of Bitches”: Early Leadville’s Volunteer Firemen Christian J. Buys

Architect J.J.B. Benedict and His Magnificent Unbuilt Buildings Dan W. Corson

“A Bonnet in the Ring”: Josephine Roche Runs for Governor Elinor M. McGinn


The Art of “Nettie” Bromwell Maria Matthews

Denver’s Postwar Awakening: Quigg Newton, Mayor, 1947-1953 Stephen J. Leonard

“Where a Bird Could Hardly Obtain a Footing” Duane A. Smith

Mr. Sanborn’s Maps Rebecca Lintz, Clark Secrest


20th Century Colorado: Life in Colorado during the 1960s

Give Peace a Chance: Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations in Colorado Frank Harper

Black Saturday: Burglars with Badges Michael E. Mueller

Bad Good Policemen

The Night the South Platte Got Even Clark Secrest

Second-Hand Broncos: The Best Worst Team in Football James Whiteside

Astronauts to Zephyr: Colorado’s Music of the 1960s George W. Krieger

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: A Recollection Rick Manzanares

He Who Made Colorado Rock George W. Krieger


A Question of Life: Colorado and Abortion Law Reform Kathy McKittrick

1996 Autumn Issue OUT OF PRINT

“You Could Hear the Drums for Miles”: A Cheyenne Ledgerbook History David F. Halaas, Andrew E. Masich

The Great Raids: Drawings from the Dog Soldier Ledgerbook

A Brief Chronology of Battles and Skirmishes, 1864-65

The South Platte River Trail in 1996 Dianna Litvak


Unrealized Dreams: General William Larimer, Jr. Joan Ostrom Beasley

Denver’s First Christmas

Walter Cheesman’s Cow Phil Goodstein

The First Ascent of Mount Richthofen James H. Pickering


Comrades of Color: Buffalo Soldiers in the West, 1866-1917 Quintard Taylor

Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Garland Anne Wainstein Bond

By Force of Arms: The Buffalo Soldiers of Colorado William W. Gwaltney, Thomas Welle

A Remington Album

“Dress on the Colors, Boys”: Black Noncommissioned Officers in the Regular Army,

1866-1898 Douglas C. McChristian


The Making of Buffalo Soldiers West William W. Gwaltney


20th Century Colorado: The ‘50s: Shake, Rattle, and Roll Clark Secrest

The Cowboy Warden; “Roy Best’ll Get ‘em Back!”; A Promise Kept: The Denver-Boulder Toll Road; Part Shepherd, Mostly Affection; Bringing in the Sheaves: The Flagler Harvest Festival, 1951; Eleven Minutes: John Gilbert Graham’s Christmas Gift to Mother; “They Won’t Listen”: The “Reincarnation” of Bridey Murphy; The Picture That Reassured the World; Colorado’s Miss America; The Capps Homestead; The Largest Dark City; Lucy Leftovers


Denver Boosters and Their “Great Braggart City” Thomas J. Noel

A Booster to Flip Over

A Gallery of Boosters

1995 Summer Issue OUT OF PRINT

“All the Camp Was Weeping”: George Bent and the Sand Creek Massacre David Fridtjof Halaas

Bloody August: The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920 Stephen J. Leonard

A Legacy of Distrust: The Mesa Verde Boundary Controversy Bruce J. Noble, Jr.



Mighty Casey Matches the Mountains: The Origins of Baseball in Colorado Duane A. Smith

African-American Baseballists and the Denver Post Tournament Jay Sanford

Mile High Greenfields: Denver’s Notable Ballparks Mark S. Foster

Playing by the Rules: The Evolution of Baseball in the Nineteenth Century Mark S. Foster

Vintage Baseball in Colorado Patrick Massengill


20th Century Colorado: The Victory Years 1940-1950 Clark Secrest

Bad at the Best, and Hell During War; Private First Class Dale H. Maple: The Philologist; “Doctor Florence”: Colorado’s Woman of the Decade; Recruiting Public Opinion: The Posters of World War II; Vitamins for Victory; No Bread Today: Wartime Rationing; The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Aspen: The Town the 1940s Saved; The Valley Highway: The Road That Colorado Loves to Hate; Boomtime in the Rockies


Colorado’s Forgotten Airbase: The Original Lowry Field Frank Harper

A Single-Jacking Fool for a Dollar a Day Thomas J. Trumbull

Swimming against the Current Stephen J. Leonard

Pigs, Jellymakers, and Graybeards Adolph H. Grundman



Grids of Chaos Phil Goodstein

The Pit of Horror: Colorado’s Gumry Hotel Catastrophe Richard A. Kreck

An Unusually Large Table Nancy Dawson

1994 Spring Issue Special Edition: Rocky Flats $4.95

Annihilation Beckons: A Brief History of Colorado’s Nuclear Bomb-Trigger Factory John J. Kennedy, Jr.

Reflections on a Theme: Indians, Custer, and History David Fridtjof Halaas


20th Century Colorado: The 1930s - Hardship and Hope Clark Secrest

The School Bus to Hell; How Colorado Blew into Kansas; The Kidnapping of Millionaire Boettcher; When the Zephyr Breezed into Colorado; The Alphabet Solution; Colorado History on Wood; “Cooking with Short Waves”; Paul Lewis’s Airomobile: Colorado’s “Almost” Volkswagen Beetle; Blockading of the “Alien” Hispanics; Josephine A. Roche: Champion of the 1930s Working Class


Colorado’s Gray Goose Airways Amy Pettle

Rufus Owens and the Central City Submarine Researched by Frank Harper

The Mile High Submariner


Floating Vengeance: The Japanese Balloon Attack on Colorado Michael E. Unsworth

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane: G. L. Davidson’s Disintegrating Airship Clark Secrest

The Colorado State Liar


Adventuring in Colorado’s San Juans, 1908 James H. Pickering

Lewis B. France: Outdoor Writer John H. Monnett

The Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railroad Kenneth Jessen


Special Edition – Women’s Suffrage

Colorado’s Women Get the Vote: A Reflection Lee Chambers-Schiller

“Bristling for Their Rights”: Colorado’s Women and the Mandate of 1893 Stephen J. Leonard

Harvest of Discontent: The Depression of 1893 and the Women’s Vote Carolyn J. Stefanco

Putting Women in the Picture: A Photo Album Rosemary Fetter, Thomas J. Noel

From Suffrage to Centennial: A Research Guide to Colorado and National Women’s

Suffrage Sources Marcia T. Goldstein, Rebecca A. Hunt


20th Century Colorado: The Roaring Twenties 1920-1930 Clark Secrest

Brazen Banditry: Colorado Crime in the Twenties; With a Song in the Air; The Hood and the Robe; Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: For Tomorrow We Die; A Decade for the Schoolchildren; What Shall We Do?; Calling by Dial: And to the


Operator Goodbye; A Rocky Mountain “Cure”; Farewell to the Old-Timers; Toward a Carefree Colorado; The Gathering Storm


Searching for the Perfect Ski Gear Georgianna Contiguglia

Pueblo on the Arkansas River Anne Wainstein Bond

History of Denver’s Symphony Orchestras James Michael Bailey


The Wild West Show Cowgirl Kathryn Derry

Architecture in Colorado Thomas J. Noel

An Ammunition Factory in the Rockies Christine Pfaff


Singing Colorado’s Praises; Colorado Songman; The Junk Lane Gang; Silver Dollar’s Dream; Where Columbines Grow; College Schmaltz Terry L. Shockey

Summertime in the Rockies James H. Pickering



20th Century Colorado: The Turbulent Teens, 1910-1920 Clark Secrest

Colorado: Going Places; Ludlow: A Colorado Horror; Enos Mills and His Park; Colorado Gets Green; Goldie Griffith: Cowgirl; The Old Scout Goes Over the Ridge; Echoes from “Over There”; Colorado’s Littlest Town; Bring Out the Sarsaparilla: Colorado Goes Dry; And Still It Snows; Maggie Brown’s Moment of Glory; Give the Big Guy a Hand; Emily Griffith: Schoolmarm Deluxe


All Aboard for Cheyenne! The Denver Post’s Famous Ride to the Rodeo Richard Kreck

Western Visions: Colorado’s New Deal Post Office Murals Mary Motian-Meadows

The Day Clara May Morse Died: Pearl Harbor and One Mother’s Heartbreak Clark Secrest

Custer: His Name Alone Will Start an Argument David Fridtjof Halaas


On Being a Child in a Little Mountain Town Leigh Block Turner

Samuel Newhouse and His Mighty Argo John O’Dell

The History of Denver Histories David Fridtjof Halaas

The Day the Army Invaded Montgomery Ward Phil Goodstein


It Was a Terror to the Horses: Bicycling in Gilded-Age Denver James Whiteside

Advertising in Colorado: A Century of Growth Georgianna Contiguglia

Pikes Peak Calling! Sergeant Seyboth’s Wintery Ordeal Darlis A. Miller



20th Century Colorado: The First Decade Clark Secrest

Conflicting Values; What’s New; Ideas We Treasure; Our Activities; Worries and Concerns; A Tale of Two Beverages…; Things We Need; Taste and Style; Of Weightiness and Whimsy; A New Century’s Dreams


Special Edition: Trails Through Time Clark Secrest

Records on the Land; The First Trails; Routes of Commerce; Roads to Settlement; Paths to Salvation; Military Maneuvers; Roads to Riches?; Hoofprints in the Sand; Weighty Freight; Industrial Revolutions; On the Road; Intertwining Paths; From All Points; A “Family” of the West; End of the Trail


Paul Gregg: The City Room Was His Studio Georgianna Contiguglia

James Peck: The Emperor of Empire John M. O’Dell

Eve Drewelowe: Boulder Artist Stanley L. Cuba

1990 Issue 2 $4.95


A Proud Legacy: Water and W. D. Farr John C. Bromley

Harry Buckwalter: Pioneer X-Ray Photographer William Jones

Verner Z. Reed: Colorado’s Millionaire Romantic Sharon Marks Elfenbein

When Billy Sunday “Saved” Colorado: That Old-Time Religion and the

Prohibition Amendment of 1914 David A. Baldwin

1990 Issue 1 $4.95

Two Enemies to Fight Joan Reese

Tragedy on Longs Peak James H. Pickering

Prisoners on the Home Front Janet E. Worrall

1989 Issue 4 OUT OF PRINT

The House in the Heart of a City: The Byers and Evans Families of Denver David Fridtjof Halaas


Removing Our Relics Duane A. Smith

Art Deco Days Sally Everett

A Song Inspired Frank H. Tucker

Pike and His Peak


1989 Issue 2 $4.95

Camping in Colorado

Vacation in an Automobile Susan Noalani Terry, Editor

New Wine in Old Bottles William H. Wilson

Along the Scenic Drives and Into the Mountain Parks: A Photo Essay and Map

Exploring and Mapping Wild Basin James H. Pickering


At Home in Amache Melyn Johnson

Uprooted: A Portfolio of Japanese-Americans in World War II

Isaiah’s Prophecy Christian J. Buys


Watering the Plains James E. Sherow

Today’s Highline Canal: A Photo Essay and Map

Mapping Mountains Mike Foster

Growing Pains John C. Bromely, David L. Anderson, Charles H. Ingold


1988 Issue 3 $4.95

Colorado’s Hispanic Heritage: An Overview

History of Cenicero Procopio Jiron

Woven Across Time Kathryn Davis

A Weaving Revival in Southern Colorado

Spiritual Rebirth Thomas J. Noel

1988 Issue 2 $4.95

Dearfield… A Dream Deferred Karen Waddell

Poking Fun at the Politicos: A Cartoon Essay

One Man’s Vision Joyce Summers

1988 Issue 1 $4.95

Fighting Far from Home Frank Harper

West Meets East: A Photo Essay

He Fought for His West Michael McCarthy


1987 Issue 4 $4.95

Streets from Silver Lawrence Bamford

The Past in the Present: A Photo Essay

Denver at War Stephen J. Leonard

1987 Issue 3 $4.95

Lifelines Erin Christensen

Promoting Colorado

Scenes from the Heights: A Photo Essay

Monumental Denver Phil Goodstein


Ordway on the Plains Joan Reese

Trying to Profit Elinor M. McGinn

A Report from Inside

Where Coal Was Once King Dolores Plested


1987 Issue 1 $4.95

Neither Sleet Nor Snow H. James Kolva

The Federal Look: Thirteen Colorado Towns

Charles Lillybridge: A Photo Essay

To Tame Cherry Creek Paul D. Friedman

1986 Issue 4 $4.95

The Artists and the Architects Rutherford W. Witthus

Along Denver’s Wall Street of the West: A Walking Tour

The Concord Coach Seymour E. Wheelock

Power in the Mountains Christian J. Buys

1986 Issue 3 $4.95

Summer Aspen

Albert Schweitzer in Aspen Allen H. Merriam

A Legacy of Green Don Etter

Through the Parks and Along the Parkways: A Photo Essay

That Much-Discovered Cave Donald G. Davis


1986 Issue 2 $4.95

Two Gentlemen of Note Joan Reese

Lens on a Small Town Ann Dunmire Heinz

Hollywood in the Rockies Ron D. Ahback-Sladek

One Man’s West: A Review Essay

1986 Issue 1 $4.95

Halley’s Comet Glenn A. Webster

From the Four Corners: A Photo Essay

The Boulderfield Hotel Merrill J. Mattes

1985 Issue 4 $4.95

Battles, Bricks, and Bunting Ann L. Jones

A Once and Future Resort Andre Roch, Ernest H. Blake, translator

The Historian and Western Art Richard A. Bartlett

1985 Issue 3 $4.95


High on the Hill Margaret Coel, Gladys Doty, and Karen Gilleland

LeRoy R. Hafen: An Appreciation

Bridging History: A Photo Essay Clayton B. Fraser

For the Public Good Marjorie Hornbein


The Forgotten Community: Hispanic Auraria in the Twentieth Century Magdalena Gallegos

The Swallowtail Butterfly Magdalena Gallegos

Made in Denver: Commercial Vehicles of the 1920s and 1930s: A Photo Essay

1985 Issue 1 $4.95

Pioneer Slopes Abbott Fay

Ruth Underhill Remembered Pat Paton

Studio People: A Photo Essay

The Untapped Ore of History Duane A. Smith

1984 Issue 4 $4.95

Convention City Phil Goodstein

Colorado’s Coal People Eric Margolis

Failure in Eden John R. Brumgardt and George A. Woolsey, Jr.



An Airport in Place Jeff Miller

The Story of a Valley: Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park

Neighborhood Nickelodeons Paul O’Malley

1984 Issue 2 $4.95

William D. Haywood: The Most Hated and Feared Figure in America Thomas J. Noel

Worlds Apart: Indians and Whites in Nineteenth-Century Colorado David Fridtjof Halaas

1984 Issue 1 $4.95

Paradise Founded C. W. Buchholtz

Amazing Minnie Dolores Plested

The Faces of Huerfano: A Photo Essay

Building Western Cities: A Review Essay Carl Abbott

1983 Issue 4 $4.95


Alone on the Prairie Ellen C. Micaud

Colorado’s First Physicians Robert H. Shikes

Denver’s Capitol Hill Michael Shay

Forty Years of Change: A Photo Essay

1983 Issue 3 $4.95

Unrecorded History David A. Brose

Froebel’s Friends in Denver Winona Graham

Landmarks of American Liberty: A Colorado Historical Society Exhibit

The Fourth of July in Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm

Out of the Earth: A Photo Essay

America’s Blurred Vision: A Book Review Essay

1983 Issues 1 & 2 $8.95

A Year of Discovery David N. Wetzel, David Fridtjof Halaas

Boom and Bust David F. Halaas, Gerald C. Morton

A Fifty-Niner Miner Duane A. Smith, David Fridtjof Halaas

Robert S. Roeschlaub David N. Wetzel

From Exhibits to Artifacts Maxine Benson

The Colorado Scrapbook, 1880-1949

William H. Jackson Donald E. English

Mesa Verde Legacy


Childhood in Colorado David N. Wetzel

1982 Issue 1 $8.95

Colorado’s People Judith L. Gamble

Young Fur Trapper John S. Gray

Hispanic Pioneer Luis and Facundo Baca

Misguided Reformer Mark W. T. Harvey

Friend to the Ute Omer C. Stewart

Story of a Farmer Jack E. Smith

Two Literary Miners Duane A. Smith

Genteel Artist Georgianna Contiguglia

Two Women Writers Caroline Bancroft

1981 Issue 1 $8.95

The Cowboy: Reflections of a Western Writer Louis L’Amour

A Royal Life: Images of the Historic Cowboy

Life on the Trail: The 1894 Diary of Perry Eugene Davis Wayne H. Gossard, Jr.

Changing Images: The Cowboy in Western Films Richard W. Etulain

Cowboy Songs: From the Open Range to the Radio Dick Weissman

What a Life: Today’s Cowboy at Work

National Western: A Brief History of the Stock Show Willard E. Simms

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