Colorado Historical Society

Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing Colorado Historical Society

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references; To the Pikes Peak country in 1859 and cannibalism on the Smoky Hill route / Henry Villard -- Our new road / Helen Hunt Jackson -- First official visit to the cliff dwellings / William Henry Jackson -- Fraeb's last fight / LeRoy R. Hafen -- Recollections of a trip to the San Luis Valley in 1877 / Albert B. Sanford -- The kingdom of Bull Hill / Emil W. Pfeiffer -- The hermit of Pat's Hole / Edgar C. McMechen -- Irwin, a ghost town of the Elk Mountains / Muriel Sibell Wolle -- Hunting antelope with dogs / A. R. Ross -- Jack Sumner and John Wesley Powell / Wallace Stegner -- Pearl Harbor and one mother's heartbreak / Clara May Morse -- The wizard of East Pikes Peak: Nikola Tesla's experimental station / Richard Grove -- Port Stockton, outlaw / Maxine Benson -- Three governors in a day / Marjorie Hornbein -- A land unto itself: the Western Slope / Duane A. Smith -- The cowboy: reflections of a western writer / Louis L'Amour -- Mari Sandoz in Colorado / Caroline Bancroft -- Peyotism in Colorado / Omer C. Stewart -- William D. Haywood: the most hated and feared figure in America / Thomas J. Noel -- Bent's Fort: outpost of manifest destiny / David Lavender -- Tragedy on Longs Peak: Walter Kiener's own story / James H. Pickering -- Bristling for their rights: Colorado's women and the mandate of 1893 / Stephen J. Leonard -- The real West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Comrades of color: buffalo soldiers in the West / Quintard Taylor -- Los betabeleros (the beetworkers) / Jose Aguayo -- A whiskey train and a doughnut day: coming of age on the eastern Colorado plains / Keith A. Cook -- The last back fence in town: the assassination of Alan Berg / Clark Secrest -- The Napa Valley of beer: Colorado's brewpub phenomenon / Richard A. Kreck -- Written in blood: the Soule-Cramer Sand Creek Massacre letters / Gary L. Roberts and David Fridtjof Halaas -- The demons of Elizabeth Tabor: mining dreams and visions from the matchless / Judy Nolte Temple -- Delta's king of kings: the Egyptian Theatre and the Bank night craze / Larry Borowsky -- History and memory: the story of Denver's Chinatown / William Wei -- Colorado's cycliennes / Modupe Labode. Publisher Marketing: - Twenty-five essays cover a panorama of people and events from Colorado's distant and recent past- Features outstanding writing by the best and best-known authors published by the Society over the course of its history, including Louis L'Amour, Wallace Stegner, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Thomas J. Noel- Draws from past and current publications such as the Colorado Magazine, Colorado Heritage, Colorado History Journal, and the Colorado History NOW monthly newspaper." Contributor Bio:  Colorado Historical Society Founded in 1879, the Colorado Historical Society brings the unique character of Colorado's past to more than a million people each year through historical museums and highway markers, exhibitions, manuscript and photograph collections, popular and scholarly publications, historical and archaeological preservation services, and educational programs for children and adults. In short, the Society "collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Colorado for present and future generations.