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"A comprehensive study about the contentious issue of the water wars between Colorado's Western Slope--where snows accumulate west of the Continental Divide--and the Front Range, where the ever-expanding population continues to require more municipal water"--Provided by publisher.
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The story of a unique and unreported corner of Colorado - Paradox Valley. Its geology, exploration, and settlers, including the author's own experiences during the Depression years.
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"In 1980, Exxon U.S.A., the world's largest corporation, began development of a $5-billion oil shale industry in the pristine Colorado River Valley. Within eighteen months, Exxon had canceled its elaborate Colony Project and 2,100 workers were immediately laid off. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale 1885-1985 chronicles the social, environmental and economic havoc created by one of the most expensive boom and bust cycles in the history of the American...
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"Amid the rock spires and red-rock canyons west of Grand Junction near the Utah state line, a young man with a checkered past single-handedly built trails at a salary of $1 a month. John Otto brought the beauty of the canyons to the attention of the local chambers of commerce and eventually the National Park Service. With the stroke of a pen, Pres. William Taft added the Colorado National Monument to the park system in 1911. Otto's eccentricities...
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"This kit is set up to help you connect with places of interest along the byway. The label on the disk, the enclosed maps, and the recording index will help you choose what interests you by segment or topic. Each segment is named for a town or landmark along that portion of the route. A recorded track introduces listeners to the landmark or town, then to the byway leading in each direction from there. Dig into history."--in booklet.