Denver Inside and Out 9780942576559, 0942576551
A selection of essays originally presented as papers for the "Denver Inside and Out" symposium held as part of
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English Pages vi, 124 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm Year 2011
Table of contents :
Forward! --
Rails to the Rockies : how Denver got two railroads (sort of), but not the one it really wanted / Eric L. Clements --
Denver's pioneer medical community : 1858-1900 / Rebecca Hunt --
"A premonition of our future grandeur" : building Denver's first schools / Shawn Snow --
A more perfect machine : Denver as the birthplace of women in party and electoral politics, 1893-1897 / Marcia Tremmel Goldstein --
Denver's disorderly women / Cheryl Siebert Waite --
The Colorado women of the Ku Klux Klan / Betty Jo Brenner --
In search of wealth and health : Denver's early Jewish community / Jeanne Abrams --
"I am a Denver Indian!" : the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Relocation Program and Denver's Native American community / Azusa Ono --
A gateway into the mountains : Denver and the building of a recreational empire / Michael Childers --
Modern mountain views : constructing summer homes and civic identity in Colorado / Melanie Shellenbarger --
Inventing Cherry Creek : 150 years of the making of an urban environmental landscape / B. Erin Cole.
