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Places of Historical Interest in Western Colorado


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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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3.5 stars
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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.
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5 stars
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Traces the social history of Fruita, Colorado, and the Lower Grand Valley until approximately 1920.
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3.3 stars
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A collection of vintage photographs tell the history of Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Book cover for "A guide to the Rimrock Drive, Colorado National Monument"
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Book cover for "Historic tales of Colorado's Grand Valley"
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"Colorado s Grand Valley has an extensive geological and human history going back millennia. Franciscan priests worked in tandem with the native Ute people to plot passage through the territory, opening the valley to unprecedented settlement. The region became the playground of enterprising visionaries, murderous outlaws, hooligans and harlots alike. From the gruesome Meeker massacre and its tragic consequences for the Ute nation to the mysterious...
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Marshall has created the definitive book on Grand Mesa, the large table-top mountain which dominates the Grand Junction, Colorado skyline. She shares details about Grand Mesa's geological origins and history, covers the edible as well as the just plain beautiful plants, the big and little beasts and the people -- including the man who brought a herd of only bulls to the mesa and then complained when he didn't get any calves. The mesa, dotted with...
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Book cover for "Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765"
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