The Wpa Guide To Colorado

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342058

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The WPA Guide to Colorado by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Colorado, not surprisingly, emphasizes the natural beauty of the Highest State. With a landscape ranging from alpine mountains with lush forests to arid deserts with massive sand dunes and a history that includes a rich Native American presence as well as booming mining and agriculture industries, the WPA guide shows how Colorado has earned the moniker “the Colorful State.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Colorado
ISBN : UCAL:B3883194

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The WPA Guide to 1930s Colorado by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Agar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762758364

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Insiders' Guide® to Colorado's Mountains by Charles Agar Pdf

For more than twenty years, the Insiders’ Guide® series has been the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information—from true insiders whose personal, practical perspective gives you everything you need to know. Whether you’re just zipping through Colorado’s mountains or settling into a new mountain lifestyle, there’s something enchanting about their out-of-the-way little valleys, high alpine meadows, old mining towns, and, yes, modern ski megalopolises. This authoritative guide shows you how to navigate each of the region’s unique areas, from Steamboat Springs to Aspen and on south to Durango, where you’ll discover everything from the best powder to fine dining with a view. Inside You’ll Find: • Countless details on how to live and thrive in the area, from the best shopping to the lowdown on real estate • The inside scoop on the best ski resorts, as well as on attractions, the arts, and summer activities, such as golfing, fishing, camping, backpacking, and health spas • Comprehensive listings of restaurants, accommodations, and popular events • Sections dedicated to chil dren and retirement

Author : Alice Eichholz
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1593311664

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Red Book by Alice Eichholz Pdf

" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Author : Owen D. Gutfreund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0198032420

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Twentieth-Century Sprawl by Owen D. Gutfreund Pdf

Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture. Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee. Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America's cities and towns. Based on original research and vividly written, Twentieth-Century Sprawl brings to light the benefits and consequences of the spread of American highways and makes a major contribution to our understanding of issues that still plague our cities and suburbs today.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342027

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The WPA Guide to Arizona by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. At the time of the publication of the WPA Guide to Arizona in 1940, the Grand Canyon State was the newest addition to the union. The guide presents a state of contrasts, both geographically and culturally. The photographs show many facets of the state—from the mesas and desert lands to the Spanish missions and Native American art.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342423

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The WPA Guide to Utah by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Utah, a state which is well known for its distinct religious history, is thoroughly examined in this WPA Guide, with an entire chapter on the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the state of Utah. The Beehive State, also known for its natural beauty and plentiful resources, also contains several pictures of the Great Salt Lake and mountainous desert landscape as well as an interesting essay on mining.

Author : Rebecca L. Berg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810850931

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The Great Depression in Literature for Youth by Rebecca L. Berg Pdf

No area of the United States was untouched by the Great Depression, but the severity in which people experienced those significant years depended in large part on where in the nation they lived. While dust choked the life out of Americans in the plains, apples grew in abundance in the Northwest. Unemployment-driven poverty robbed urban dwellers of hearth and home, while Upper-plains farm women traded eggs and chickens like money. This bibliography describes the youth literature and relevant resources written about the Great Depression, all categorized by geographical location. Students, educators, historians, and writers can use this book to find literature specific to their state or region, gaining a greater understanding of what the Great Depression was like in their locale. The Great Depression was a pivotal period in our nation's history. This annotated bibliography guides readers to biographies; oral histories, memoirs, and recollections; photograph collections; fiction and nonfiction books; picture books; international resources; and other reference sources. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) state guides are included, as well as literature about the federal theater, arts, and music projects. A comprehensive listing of museums and state historical societies complement this reference. For readers interested in learning about the Great Depression, this is a must-have resource.

Author : Deborah Frazier
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781941821381

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Colorado's Hot Springs by Deborah Frazier Pdf

COLORADO’S HOT SPRINGS is an entertaining, comprehensive guide to the state's sweet soaking sites and their histories. The photographs capture each spring's unique character and beauty. Each chapter blends descriptions of the warm water wonders with stories about the unique characters, events, and ancient use by Native Americans. The springs are Colorado's warm water ocean and Debbie visited each one. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles forty-four hot springs, providing descriptions, contact information, directions, maps, photographs, and historical notes.

Author : Deborah Frazier George
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0871089084

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Colorado's Hot Springs by Deborah Frazier George Pdf

Colorado's mountain landscape is home to several of nature's own “hot tubs”— idyllic geologic wonders people have treasured and enjoyed for centuries. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles more than thirty hot springs, providing descriptions, contact information, directions, maps, photographs, and historical notes. Whether seeking a soak in a remote mountain wilderness or in a spa at a small-town resort, warm water devotees will find everything they need in this book to enjoy the natural embrace of Colorado's hot springs.

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826353719

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Global West, American Frontier by David M. Wrobel Pdf

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.

Author : Alice Eichholz
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781618589682

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Red Book, 3rd edition by Alice Eichholz Pdf

No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the middle, ""Ancestry's Red Book has information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide. In short, the ""Red Book is simply the book that no genealogist can afford not to have. The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail. Unlike the federal census, state and territorial census were taken at different times and different questions were asked. Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how""

Author : Bruce Caughey,Dean Winstanley
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1555910890

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The Colorado Guide by Bruce Caughey,Dean Winstanley Pdf

Written by two third-generation Coloradans, this is the most reliable single resource for discovering this spectacular Rocky Mountain state. The book organizes the state into six regions with corresponding maps, allowing readers access to over 1,400 entries of things to see and do in Colorado. Black-and-white photographs; maps; line drawings.

Author : Peter Gough
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252097010

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Sounds of the New Deal by Peter Gough Pdf

At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In Sounds of the New Deal, Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the West shaped a new national appreciation for the diversity of American musical expression. From the onset, administrators and artists debated whether to represent highbrow, popular, or folk music in FMP activities. Though the administration privileged using "good" music to educate the public, in the West local preferences regularly trumped national priorities and allowed diverse vernacular musics to be heard. African American and Hispanic music found unprecedented popularity while the cultural mosaic illuminated by American folksong exemplified the spirit of the Popular Front movement. These new musical expressions combined the radical sensibilities of an invigorated Left with nationalistic impulses. At the same time, they blended traditional patriotic themes with an awareness of the country's varied ethnic musical heritage and vast--but endangered--store of grassroots music.

Author : Dick Kreck
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555918293

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Smaldone by Dick Kreck Pdf

Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the 1980s. Connected to notorious crime figures, politicians, and presidents, Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Dick Kreck reveals the true sense of what it meant to be a Smaldone, not only the corrupt but also the virtuous.Dick Kreck retired from The Denver Post after thirty-eight years as a columnist. He is the author of four other books, including Murder at the Brown Palace. He lives in Denver, Colorado.