Colorado Forts
Title | Colorado Forts PDF eBook |
Author | Jolie Anderson Gallagher |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-04-02 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1614239037 |
Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of Colorado for generations to come. As the settlers struggled to survive desperate times, economic depressions and bloody wars, some of these historic outposts would become Colorado's cities, schools, hospitals and museums, while others would sink back into the mud from which they came. Join author Jolie Anderson Gallagher as she chronicles the stories of the forts and the early explorers, fur trappers, soldiers and wives who constructed and occupied them.
Colorado Frontiersmen: Forts, Fights and Legacies
Title | Colorado Frontiersmen: Forts, Fights and Legacies PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Wommack |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2023-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467153656 |
Early Icons and Landmarks As western migration came to the Colorado frontier, forts were established to protect the settlers. These forts were intertwined with the lives of the frontiersmen. Scout Thomas Tate Tobin oversaw the workers who built the adobe fortress known as Fort Garland. Here, Tobin delivered the heads of the murderous Espinosas gang to Colonel Sam Tappan. Fort Sedgwick, originally known as Camp Rankin, was attacked by the Cheyenne Dog soldiers, including George Bent. Fort Lyon, an expanded fortress of William Bent's third fort, became the staging point for Colonel John M. Chivington's march to Sand Creek where peaceful Cheyenne were murdered. Later, Christopher "Kit" Carson died in the fort's chapel. Legendary Jim Beckwourth was associated with both Fort Vasquez and Fort Pueblo. Author Linda Wommack revisits the glory and the mistakes of the frontiersmen who defined Colorado and the forts that dotted the wild landscape.
Historic Forts of Colorado
Title | Historic Forts of Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | Dick Spurr |
Publisher | Centennial Publication |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1994-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781882418046 |
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
Title | Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Bent's Fort (Colo.) |
ISBN |
In View of the Mountains
Title | In View of the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Patten |
Publisher | Jennifer Patten |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2011-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1458123979 |
Fort Logan
Title | Fort Logan PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Stokes Ballard |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738575827 |
For most Colorado citizens, Fort Logan usually brings to mind the large national cemetery of the same name. Often unrealized is that nearby, there are fine, substantial brick buildings that mark the remains of a once-bustling military post. Fort Logan began in 1887 and became a part of the US Army's new network of urban-type forts with strategic rail links. Located in the beginning about eight miles southwest of Denver, it variously housed important infantry, cavalry, and engineer units and later served as a key recruit and discharge center. It also once attracted Denverites to elaborate parade ceremonies, stirring band concerts, and competitive athletic events. After World War II, it became property of the State of Colorado and today is the site of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan.
Colorado
Title | Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas J. Noel |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2015-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806153539 |
This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.