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In 1858 when prospectors arrived in present-day Colorado it was the Ute Indians who greeted them. These proud and independent Native Americans had inhabited this part of the Rocky Mountains for centuries. This book was painstakingly researched by Rockwell and has become a primary resource for scholars. Rockwell conducted many interviews and extensively recorded the history of the early Native Americans who once inhabited our region.

Empire of the Summer Moon is a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle (1836-1875) between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. This is a very readable historical account of the American Indians and the Western United States.

LEARN ABOUT

YOUR

COLORADO

HERITAGE

THROUGH

FASCINATING

AND

INFORMATIVE

READINGS.

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

is one of the many accounts of Isabella L.

Bird’s amazing travels and adventures.

At the age of 22 in 1854 Isabella left a

comfortable life in England for a life of

adventurous travel. This book is an

account of six months of those travels in

1873 through the rugged terrain of the

Colorado Rockies. Based upon her

letters to her sister this account relates

the many hardships of the great western

frontier in the pioneer days as well as the

awesome beauty of nature she found in

the western territories.

The original fort near La Junta,

CO, was built by William and

Charles Bent in 1833 to trade with

plains Indians and trappers.

Primary trade was with the

Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho

Indians for buffalo robes. For

much of its 16-year history the fort

provided explorers, adventurers,

and the US Army a place to get

needed supplies, wagon repairs,

livestock, good food, water and

company, rest and protection in

this vast “Great American

Desert.”

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The dust storms that terrorized America’s

High Plains in the darkest days of the

Depression were like nothing ever seen

before.

This is the story of those who stayed and survived …. It is an extraordinary story

of endurance and heroism … a powerful cautionary tale

about the dangers of trifling with nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy4la5o-HFY

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FOR YOUNG READERS & ADULTS

Little Britches Series By Ralph Moody

(These books are autobiographies — excellent for children 10 years & older. Adults interested in life in the early 1900’s will find them

enjoyable reading, too. )

Father & I were Ranchers (1950) Man of the Family (1951) The Fields of Home (1953) The Home Ranch (1956)

Mary Emma & Company (1961) The Dry Divide (1963)

Horse of a Different Color (1994)

FOR YOUNG

READERS