Yazar: Duane A. Smith

For fifty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged e …

Mesa Verde National Park was America, s first cultural park and also the world, s first cultural heritage park. Created in 1906, it preserves the sites and materials of the prehistoric Puebloan …

The roll call of Colorado governors is varied and rich, including men determined and dilatory, successful and unsuccessful, lucky and unlucky, with each administration contributing to the fabric of …

The roll call of Colorado governors is varied and rich, including men determined and dilatory, successful and unsuccessful, lucky and unlucky, with each administration contributing to the fabric of …

In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado’s mining saga – a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century …

Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state’s colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining …

There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of …