Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – May 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Principled Politician – The Ralph Carr Story
by Adam Schrager
Published in 2008 by Fulcrum
ISBN 978-1-55591-654-1
FOR FOUR YEARS, 1859-62, the hotspot of mining activity in South Park was at Tarryall City and Hamilton, situated a half mile apart on opposite banks of Tarryall Creek, 2 miles north of present-day Como. In the summer of 1859, a group of miners whose luck had run out at Gregory Diggings (Central City), including …
SHORTLY AFTER MOVING TO SALIDA IN 2001, I began noticing random license plate frames around town embedded with the words “Old Goats.” I soon learned there was an organization founded in Salida for the purpose of helping preserve the Rocky Mountain goat. Members are referred to as “Old Goats.” While hiking a section of the …
READERS OF THE BUENA VISTA newspaper will occasionally notice that some veteran of World War II is mentioned as having served in the 10th Mountain Division. The distinctive logo for the 10th Mountain appears on the occasional obituary. Sometimes the “winter army” is mentioned in an article. A few of those men were locals when …
GOV. JARED POLIS THIS YEAR rescinded two orders on the steps of the State Capitol, ending the legal justification for the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. Around 100 members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes attended the ceremony, calling for changes. One of their “asks” was to change the name of Mount Evans, maybe to …
PARK AND CHAFFEE COUNTIES each have approximately 45 mining districts, geographical areas established during Colorado’s 1800s mining boom to specify individual mine locations. Many districts were named after a particular “strike,” a nearby town or even a memorable experience such as the early Snowblind District, the precursor to the Consolidated Montgomery District at the foot …
Photo and story by Kenneth Jessen The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad reached La Veta Pass in 1877 on its way westward into the San Luis Valley. At 9,390 feet, it was the highest railroad pass in the United States at that time. A stone depot was constructed at the pass along with other railroad …
by Virginia McConnell Simmons Ute Indians say they were always here, but, like migrations of other emigrants, theirs began far away. It started in Central America and Mexico thousands of years ago and ended on reservations in Utah and Colorado. The Ute and other Uto-Aztecan people, whose language is reflected in Utah’s state name, moved …
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – May 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Principled Politician – The Ralph Carr Story
by Adam Schrager
Published in 2008 by Fulcrum
ISBN 978-1-55591-654-1
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – April 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
’77
by Terry Frei
Photographs by Kenn Bisio
Published in 2008 by Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 978-1-58479-213-5
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – November 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Roadside History of Colorado
by Candy Moulton
Published in 2006 by Mountain Press
ISBN 0-87842-520-9
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – January 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Mainliner Denver – The Bombing of Flight 629
by Andrew J. Field
Published in 2005 by Johnson Books
ISBN 1-55566-363-X
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – October 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Colorado State Capitol – History, Politics, Preservation
by Derek R. Everett
Published in 2005 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0-87081-790-6
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – November 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado 1860-1930
by Jan MacKell
Published in 2004
by the University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 0-8263-3342-7
Review by Abby Quillen
Colorado history – December 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Mineral Palace
by Heidi Julavits
Published in 2000 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Republished in paperback in 2003
ISBN 0-399-14622-9
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – August 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Denver from the Bottom Up – Volume One: From Sand Creek to Ludlow
by Phil Goodstein
Published in 2003 by New Social Publications
P.O. Box 18026, Denver CO 80218
ISBN 0-9622169-9-2
Article by Duane Smith
Colorado History – August 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
JEROME BONAPARTE CHAFFEE — mining man, politician, businessman, mill man, banker, and one of Colorado’s first two senators — was a “mover and shaker” in the 1860s and ’70s. Yet he quickly receded into history after his death in March 1886.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – September 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
Henry M. Teller – Colorado’s Grand Old Man
by Duane A. Smith
Published in 2002 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0-87081-666-7
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado History – September 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
While the prospectors were stranded and starving near Lake San Christobal in early 1874, did Alfred Packer murder his five companions so that he could eat their flesh?
Or was he telling the truth when he said that while he was out hunting, Shannon Bell had butchered the others for meat? Packer confessed to killing Bell, but in self-defense, and to eating human flesh afterward, since they were already dead, there was no game, and the snow was too deep for him to travel.
Letter from Kenneth Jessen
Colorado history – April 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
Creative cartography?
Editors:
Buyer Beware: The much touted 1894 map of Colorado, originally published by the Caxton Company, was just too good to be true. It has many long forgotten places, and added an amazing amount of information on long abandoned Colorado towns. It is generally accurate; however, there are towns on this map that appear in no other source, leading me to be somewhat suspicious about “creative” map making.
Review by Martha Quillen
Colorado History – June 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
Children of the Storm – The True Story of The Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
by Ariana Harner and Clark Secrest
published in 2001 by Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 1-55591-275-3
Review by Allen Best
Colorado History – June 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado Avalanche Disasters: An Untold Story of the Old West
by John W. Jenkins
Published in 2001 by Western Reflections
ISBN 1-890437-44-1
Review by Steve Voynick
Colorado history – September 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty
By Dan BaumPublished in 2000 by William Morrow
ISBN: 0-688-15448-4
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – April 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
A History of Skiing in Colorado
by Abbott Fay
Published in 2000 by Western Reflections
ISBN 1-890437-34-4
Letter from Harvey N. Gardiner
Colorado History – January 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
In your December issue, the interesting article “Tomichi Lives On” repeats an historical inaccuracy that has been so often repeated that it is now accepted as truth. The historical inaccuracy is that the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act caused the silver crash of 1893.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – April 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
I Never Knew That About Colorado – A Quaint Volume of Forgotten Lore
by Abbott Fay
published in 1997 by Western Reflections, Inc.
ISBN 1-890437-17-4
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – November 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Menace in the West – Colorado and the American Experience with Drugs, 1873-1963
by Henry O. Whiteside
Published in 1997 by the Colorado Historical Society
ISBN 0-942576-38-1
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – October 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Buildings of Colorado
by Thomas J. Noel
published in 1997 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 0-19-509076-4
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – July 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Enos Mills: Citizen of Nature
by Alexander Drummond
Published in 1995 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0870814079
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – July 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado Gunsmoke – True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier
by Ken Jessen
Published in 1986 by J.V. Publications
ISBN 0961166258
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – May 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
They Came to Play – A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball
by Duane Smith and Mark Foster
Published in 1997 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0870814338
Review by Martha Quillen
Colorado history – April 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Eccentric Colorado – A Legacy of the Bizarre & Unusual
by Kenneth Jessen
Pruett Publishing
ISBN 0-87108-682-4
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
People of the Shining Mountains: The Utes of Colorado
by Charles S. Marsh
Published in 1982 by Pruett
ISBN 0871086131
Article by George Sibley
Colorado History – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
A NATION BROUGHT TO THE VERGE
Revisiting the Election of 1896
The election campaign of 1996 should have been more interesting than it has been so far — and it also should have been more about the way the economy is undermining our democratic principles.
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – September 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Alfred or Alferd?
Most official documents — military enlistments and discharges, veteran pension, tombstone, prison records, court proceedings — refer to an Alfred G. Packer.
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – September 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Nov. 21, 1842: Alferd G. Packer born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He works as a printer’s devil, then learns to work leather.
Article by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – September 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Despite two sensational trials during his lifetime and frequent inquiries ever since, Alferd Packer will again face a judge and jury from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Trials and Triumphs – A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression With FSA Photographs
by Stephen J. Leonard
Published in 1993 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0-87081-311-0
Review by Martha Quillen
Coloado History – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Tomboy Bride – A Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
by Harriet Fish Backus
Published in 1969 by Pruett
ISBN 0-87108-512-7
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – May 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Historical Atlas of Colorado
by Thomas J. Noel, Paul E. Mahoney, and Richard F. Stevens
Published in 1994 by University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0-8061-2555-1