Historic Photos of Colorado Springs
Title | Historic Photos of Colorado Springs PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Swint |
Publisher | Turner |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781596524378 |
Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors. Early Indian tribes, trappers and hunters, the railroad builders, gold and silver prospectors, health seekers, tourists, and the military have all left their mark on the area. Set against magnificent Pikes Peak and the front range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs enjoys a history rich with all that is authentically American. With the sesquicentennial anniversary of the area and its gold rush in 2009, this look back seems particularly appropriate. Historic Photos of Colorado Springs showcases nearly 200 photographs of the city, focusing on hallmarks of its past while paying homage to lesser known points of interest. Printed in striking black-and-white and handsomely bound, these vignettes of Colorado Springs are sure to delight the history buff, the curious student, and all citizens wishing to explore their colorful local heritage.
Historic Photos of Colorado Springs
Title | Historic Photos of Colorado Springs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1618583883 |
Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors. Early Indian tribes, trappers and hunters, the railroad builders, gold and silver prospectors, health seekers, tourists, and the military have all left their mark on the area. Set against magnificent Pikes Peak and the front range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs enjoys a history rich with all that is authentically American. With the sesquicentennial anniversary of the area and its gold rush in 2009, this look back seems particularly appropriate.Historic Photos of Colorado Springs showcases nearly 200 photographs of the city, focusing on hallmarks of its past while paying homage to lesser known points of interest. Printed in striking black-and-white and handsomely bound, these vignettes of Colorado Springs are sure to delight the history buff, the curious student, and all citizens wishing to explore their colorful local heritage.
Remembering Colorado Springs
Title | Remembering Colorado Springs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Remembering |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-10-28 |
Genre | Colorado Springs (Colo.) |
ISBN | 9781683368205 |
Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors. Early Indian tribes, trappers and hunters, the railroad builders, gold and silver prospectors, health seekers, tourists, and the U.S. military have all left their mark on the area. Set against magnificent Pikes Peak and the front range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs enjoys a history rich with all that is authentically American. With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book Historic Photos of Colorado Springs, Sharon Swint provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of the city. Remembering Colorado Springs showcases more than 125 photographs of the city, focusing on hallmarks of its past while paying homage to lesser-known points of interest. Printed in vivid black-and-white and handsomely bound, these vignettes of Colorado Springs are sure to delight the history buff, the curious student, and all citizens wishing to explore their colorful local heritage.
Colorado Springs
Title | Colorado Springs PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Wallace |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738520919 |
This pictorial history shows the transition of Colorado Springs from a frontier town, founded in 1871 by William Jackson Palmer, to those years just prior to the city's exposive growth which started during World War II.
Time Capsule 1900
Title | Time Capsule 1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Reid Finley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Colorado Springs (Colo.) |
ISBN | 9780966325300 |
This book highlights historical vignettes and photographs of daily life in the Pikes Peak region during the benchmark year 1900.
Historic Photos of Colorado Mining
Title | Historic Photos of Colorado Mining PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1618583875 |
In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and went back home. The remainder not only brought statehood to the central Rocky Mountains, but they also brought the industrial world to isolated areas in the high mountains, where they mined mineral deposits for gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper, among others. This book, Historic Photos of Colorado Mining, provides an introduction to Colorado's mining history through photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Accompanying captions provide specific contexts for the photos and tell the story of the prospectors, miners, engineers, teamsters, railroaders, and townspeople who served as entrepreneurs and workers in industrializing the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Many ruins from the mining days are now recognized as historic landmarks. But the stories behind the ruins are often as fascinating as the ruins themselves—the struggle to survive and thrive in the wilderness is always a compelling tale.
Then & Now
Title | Then & Now PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Freiberger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Historic buildings |
ISBN | 9780615306117 |
A decade by decade presentation with text and photographs of cultural and structural development in a town on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, as part of the history of the United States from 1875 to 2009.