Experience Colorado with this new, expanded edition of A Colorado History. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource haveled readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed-and how it has stayed the same.An engaging narrative, A Colorado History begins with the prehistoric cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde and proceeds chronologically with accounts of Colorado's role as a frontier territory?its fur trade, mining, Indian relations, cattle ranching, and homesteading?and continues to the present day political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues. Fascinating, informative, and accessible to history buffs, students, researchers?or anyone?interested in the remarkable story of a remarkable place. The tenth edition features a new chapter on recent events, new photos, and an updated bibliography section.

ContentsPreface Prologue: The Land 1. A Prehistoric Prelude: The Dwellers in the Cliffs 2. A Spanish Borderland 3. Exploring Louisiana 4. The Fur Frontier 5. The Frontier in Transition 6. Gold Rush 7. Miners and Merchants 8. Culture Comes to the Gold Towns 9. Legal Beginnings 10. Battlegrounds 11. Smelters and Railroads 12. Utopias in the Desert 13. Carpetbagger's Kingdom 14. The Centennial State 15. Carbonate Camps 16. Open Range Days 17. Beyond the Continental Divide 18. Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters 19. New Frontiers 20. Politics and Populists 21. The Silver Crusade 22. The Good Old Days 23. The Era of Industrial Warfare 24. Water and Sugar 25. The Progressive Era 26. State and Nation 27. The Twenties 28. Depression Decade 29. Life in Colorado Between Two Wars 30. Decades of Boom, Years of Bust 31. Colorado and the Nation 32. Urban Colorado 33. The Old and the New 34. "We Can't Remember Who We Were Tomorrow" 35. Colorado in the New Millennium36. Fire and Water 37. "Today Is Going To Be Long Long Ago" Suggested Reading Colorado's Governors, Senators, and CongressionalRepresentatives (Chronological List) Picture Credits Index