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| Preface | |
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| The Great Buffalo Hunt-Big Sandy Creek, 6,500 B.C. | |
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| The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition-Southwestern Colorado, 1776 | |
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| Zebulon Pike's Espionage Mission-Near Alamosa, 1807 | |
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| The First Settlement of Pueblo-Pueblo, 1822 | |
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| The Building of Bent's Fort-Bent's Fort, La Junta, 1832 | |
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| A Trek along the Santa Fe Trail-Bent's Fort, 1839 | |
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| A Holiday with Fur Traders-Platteville, 1839 | |
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| Francis Parkman's Vision-Colorado Springs, 1846 | |
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| Kit Carson's Long March-Near Grand Junction, 1848 | |
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| The Great Railroad Survey-Across Colorado, 1853 | |
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| Pikes Peak or Bust-Pikes Peak, 1859 | |
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| The Creation of the Denver Mint-Denver, 1860 | |
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| The Sand Creek Massacre-Sand Creek, 1864 | |
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| The Blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail-Pueblo, 1866 | |
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| J. W. Powell's Rocky Mountain Expedition-Front Range, 1868 | |
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| The Battle of Beecher Island-Beecher Island, 1868 | |
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| The Great Diamond Hoax-Northwestern Colorado, 1872 | |
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| A Ramble in the Rockies-Estes Park, 1873 | |
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| The Cannibalism of Alfred Packer-Southern Rocky Mountains, 1874 | |
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| Clay Allison's Trouble at Las Animas-Las Animas, 1876 | |
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| The Birth of Leadville, Silver Capital-Leadville, 1877 | |
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| Uncle Dick Wootton's Toll Road-Trinidad, 1878 | |
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| The Ute Affair-Meeker, 1879 | |
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| The Inheritance of Ouray-Montrose, 1880 | |
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| The Wetherill Brothers and Mesa Verde-Mesa Verde, 1887 | |
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| The Legacy of Jesse James-Creede, 1892 | |
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| Barney Ford's Black Activism-Denver, 1902 | |
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| Mother Jones's Union Stand-Trinidad, 1913 | |
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| The Death of Buffalo Bill-Denver, 1917 | |
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| The Legend of Baby Doe-Leadville, 1935 | |
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| W. H. Jackson's Quest for the Cross-Northern Rocky Mountains, 1942 | |
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| The Search for Bridey Murphy-Pueblo, 1952 | |
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| Red Ryder and Little Beaver-Pagosa Springs, 1960 | |
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| The History of Two Historians-Denver, 1984/1985 | |
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| The Blizzard-Denver, 2006 | |
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| Colorado Facts and Trivia | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |