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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002, 2000
Language
English
Description
From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico--a lifeline to and from the Southwest for more than two centuries. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, business records, and newspaper stories, David Dary--one of our foremost historians of the Old...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
3) The Way West
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English
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THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST,...
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Series
Yale Western Americana paperbound volume YW-3
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1982] c1962
Language
English
Description
Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and she wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of the places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey.
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English
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"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet...
Author
Series
Technical report volume no. 123
Publisher
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Colorado Natural Heritage Program
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Dixie National Forest contains a rich resource of fen wetlands. This report and associated dataset provides the RGNF with a critical tool for conservation planning at both a local and Forest-wide scale. These data will be useful for the ongoing RGNF biological assessment required by the 2012 Forest Planning Rule, but can also be used for individual management actions, such as planning for timber sales, grazing allotments, and trail maintenance....
Author
Series
Technical report volume no. 19
Publisher
Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
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Publisher
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Pub. Date
2015-2017.
Language
English
Description
This study was conducted at the request of Colorado National Monument (Project PMIS 197716) and the Bureau of Land Management (L14AC000). Results include mist netting efforts, radiotelemetry findings, and acoustic recordings, collected from May through August of 2014, 2015, and 2016. In addition, results for museum and database searches of historic specimens and records for the study area are provided.
Publisher
Colorado Air Quality Control Commission
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The importance of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition relative to the natural processes and natural character of Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) has become better understood over time, as scientific research and monitoring that began in the early 1980's have documented various changes to ecosystems in the park. These changes include forest and soil biogeochemical changes, enhanced microbial activity in soils, increased N in lakes and streams,...
Publisher
Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Big Bend National Park is located in southwestern Texas along the Mexican-Texas border. During the 1990s, the haze at Big Bend and other sites in West Texas and southern New Mexico increased, further obscuring Big Bend's and regions scenic beauty. In response to the increased haze, the Big Bend Regional Aerosol and Visibility Observational (BRAVO) study was conducted. This was an intensive monitoring study sampling aerosol physical, chemical and optical...
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