Regional History Series

Lightning in His Hand

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Extraordinary Women of the

Rocky Mountain West

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Legends, Labors and Loves of

William Jackson Palmer

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Doctor At Timberline: True Tales, Travails, and Triumphs of a Pioneer Colorado Physician 

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 To Spare No Pains:

Zebulon Montgomery Pike and His 1806-1807 Southwest Expedition

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The Colorado Labor Wars
Cripple Creek 1903-1904

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The Reflections Calendar

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Text Box: The first modern revision of Charles Fox Gardiner’s popular historical account of early Colorado medicine.  Includes a new biography of Gardiner by historian Chris Nicholl, and new illustrations .
Veterinarian, dentist, spiritual adviser- the frontier doctor was all of these. Traveling paths newly hewn into the early Colorado mountain wilds, Dr.   Gardiner found himself facing many a strange medical situation, many an odd duty. To face pioneer life one had to be rough and ready; moreover, endowed with a sense of humor. Dr. Gardiner was abundantly blessed with these points of character. Doctor at Timberline is as much the story of isolated Rocky Mountain patients as it is the chronicle of a doctor whose intrepid frontier practice brought him exciting human experience. The early days of Colorado are brought into fresh and vivid reality by these reminiscences of a doctor who observed them with zestful understanding.

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Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West brings us the real women who homesteaded, worked the ranches, built the cities, ran the businesses, brought art to the frontier, founded the institutions, preserved human history and natural wonders, fought against racial and gender discrimination, and advanced the cause of equality for women. The women of this book exhibited “can-do, forthright frontier spunk;” some were quiet, others were strident. They were nonviolent but definitely militant. Their stories are powerful, exciting, and inspiring, all the more for being the unsung heroines who carved a life out of a vast region and forged a society where strong, intelligent, capable women stood up to forces of nature and political opposition and conquered most obstacles.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Text Box: “Who was William Jackson Palmer, besides being the founder of Colorado Springs?  More complex questions come about when reconciling Palmer as a Union army soldier and spy with his Quaker upbringing; reconciling the massive manpower required to build Palmer’s western railroad and mining empires with his reputation as man of benevolence; his intercontinental romance with his wife Mary Lincoln Mellen “Queen” Palmer.       
This book, contains the keys to the many doors in Palmer’s own castle-his personal life. However, there still are rooms, private and concealed, which no one can ever enter. This “unauthorized biography” of a truly remarkable and modest man will open every reader’s eyes to a new view of William Jackson Palmer. In these pages you will not only find integrity, leadership, and compassion, but you will also witness Palmer’s tenacious conviction, strength, and shrewdness- just how one imagines a true “founding father.”
                                                                             

 

  

Text Box: A Perpetual Calendar
With Photos from
Special Collections,
Pikes Peak Library District
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Text Box: - 2008 Colorado Book Award Finalist -
Santa Fe Trail Association 2007 Award of Merit Winner! –“the best original research on Zebulon Pike during the bicentennial celebration.”
The ramifications of Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s Southwestern expedition were, in every sense of the word, immense. This book contains unique views on Pike's 1806-1807 Southwest Expedition, the politics of the time, and the popular use of Pike and his legacy in cultural and commercial endeavors. Also included; Donald Jackson’s article, “How Lost was Zebulon Pike?” papers presented at the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum’s Speakers Series; plus an  introduction by historian, writer and musician Mark L. Gardner. You can experience the 1906 Pike Centennial Commemoration events, as told by Ed and Nancy Bathke, and Katie Davis Gardner’s article on the art inspired by Pikes Peak’s dominating presence.
       

 

Text Box:  The first Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium commemorated the centennial of the Cripple Creek Labor Wars (1903-1904) and detailed the causes and consequences of one of the era’s violent labor strikes that spread throughout the Colorado mine fields. 
  The 2004 symposium was a collaboration of PPLD Special Collections, the Colorado Springs Pioneer’s Museum, Cripple Creek District Museum and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry.  
  Some of the papers presented include Marcia Tremmel Goldstein’s, “Meet Me at the Ballot Box”: Women Voters, Striking Miners, and Colorado Labor Politics, 1893-1904; Bridget Burke’s, Is Colorado In America? Emma Langdon, Polly Pry, and the Colorado Labor Wars;  Ed Hunter’s High-Grading: Theft or Wage Supplement Right?  Katherine Scott Sturdevant’s John Harper, Deported Miner: The Cripple Creek Strike as Family History, and much more! Maps, photo illustrations.  133pp.  Read a review in  The New Mexico Historical Review.