University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Old Blue's Road
A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (History)
In Old Blue’s Road, historian James Whiteside shares accounts of his motorcycle adventures across the American West. He details the places he has seen, the people he has met, and the personal musings those encounters prompted on his unique journeys...
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water
On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is author Tershia d’Elgin’s fresh take on the gravest challenge of our time—how to support urbanization without killing ourselves in the process. The gritty story of her family’s experience with water rights on its Colorado farm provides essential background...
The Boys of Winter
Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
"An immensely valuable and substantial addition to 10th Mountain literature and to the history of skiing in the United States."
- International Ski History Association
The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful...
by Thomas P. Huber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person were to close their eyes, they could not tell if they were in Provence or the North...
High Plains Horticulture
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of...
A History of Mortgage Banking in the West
Financing America's Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Part economic history, part public history, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West is an insider’s account of how the mortgage banking sector worked over the last 150 years, including analysis of the causes of the 2007 mortgage crisis. Beginning with the land and railroad development acts that...
by David M. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Water users of the Platte River Basin have long struggled to share this scarce commodity in the arid high plains, ultimately organizing collectively owned and managed water systems, allocating water along extensive stream systems, and integrating newer groundwater with existing surface-water uses....
Hard as the Rock Itself
Place and Identity in the American Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized...
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920
Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Focusing on the populist and socialist...
by Zach Savich
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
by Rob Schlegel
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Volume 5, Manifest West Series, Western Press Books
Serenity and severity form a classic Western dichotomy with many manifestations. Beautiful growth and renewal follow a terrifying and destructive forest fire. Rain upon a hayfield can be interpreted as grace or judgment from above, depending...
Histories of Infamy
Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"Roa-de-la-Carrera convincingly shows that Gómara, as well as other historians in the period, cannot easily ignore nor erase the contradictions of the Spanish colonial project."
- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas
“In an eloquent and thorough exegesis, Roa-de-la-Carrera...
by Craig Morgan Teicher
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University