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Colorado -- History -- To 1876

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• Colorado -- History

• Colorado -- History -- To 1876 -- Juvenile fiction

• The Story of a Pioneer: An Historical Sketch in Which is Depicted Some of the Struggles and Exciting Incidents Pertaining to the Early Settlement of Colorado (Denver: Reed Pub. Co., 1904), by V. Devinny (page images at Harvard)

• Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1926), by Helen Hunt Jackson, illust. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bent's Old Fort and its Builders (reprinted from Kansas State Historical Society Collections, ca. 1923), by George Bird Grinnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 (Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft v25; mostly written by Victor; San Francisco: The History Co., 1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft and Frances Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colorado Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado (full serial archives)

• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird
  • HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text

• Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage Through Grand Canyon, 1867 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Eilean Adams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Story of a Pioneer: An Historical Sketch in Which is Depicted Some of the Struggles and Exciting Incidents Pertaining to the Early Settlement of Colorado (Denver: Reed Pub. Co., 1904), by V. Devinny (page images at Harvard)

• Journal of the Annual Council of the Diocese of Colorado, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Colorado (partial serial archives)

• History of Tin Cup, Colorado (Virginia City): An Alpine Mining Camp Which Refused to Become a Ghost Town (Boulder, CO: Johnson Pub. Co., 1963), by Nolie Mumey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soldiers of the Cross: Notes on the Ecclesiastical History of New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado (Banning, CA: St. Boniface's Industrial School, 1898), by John Baptist Salpointe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Class and Community in Frontier Colorado (originally published 1990; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020), by Richard Hogan (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Journal of the Annual Council of the Diocese of Colorado, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Colorado (partial serial archives)

• Class and Community in Frontier Colorado (originally published 1990; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020), by Richard Hogan (PDF files at Project MUSE)