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title:The Birth of Colorado : A Civil War Perspective
author:Smith, Duane A.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806121807
print isbn13:9780806121802
ebook isbn13:9780806170893
language:English
subjectColorado--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
publication date:1989
lcc:E498.9.S65 1989eb
ddc:978.8/02
subject:Colorado--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Page iii
The Birth of Colorado
A Civil War Perspective
By Duane A. Smith
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON
Page iv
By Duane A. Smith
Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado (Boulder, Colo., 1974)
Colorado Mining: A Photographic History (Albuquerque, 1977)
Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-niner (San Diego, 1977) (ed. with David J. Weber)
Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango (Albuquerque, 1980; Boulder, Colo., 1986)
Secure the Shadow: Lachlan McLean Colorado Mining Photographer (Golden, Colo., 1980)
A Land Alone: Colorado's Western Slope (Boulder, Colo., 1981) (with Duane Vandenbusche)
A Colorado Reader (Boulder, Colo., 1982) (with Maxine Benson and Carl Ubbelohde)
Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juans, 18601914 (Golden, Colo., 1982)
Natural Resources in Colorado and Wyoming (ed.) (Manhattan, Kans., 1982)
A Taste of the West: Essays in Honor of Robert G. Athearn (ed.) (Boulder, Colo., 1983)
When Coal was King: A History of Crested Butte, Colorado 18801952 (Golden, Colo., 1984)
Colorado: Heritage of the Highest State (Boulder, Colo., 1984) (with Fay Metcalf and Thomas Noel)
Pioneers and Politicians: Ten Colorado Governors in Profile (Boulder, Colo., 1984) (with Richard D. Lamm)
Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 18001980 (Lawrence, Kans., 1987)
Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries (Lawrence, Kans., 1988) The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective (Norman, 1989)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Duane A.
The birth of Colorado
Bibliography: p. 255.
Includes index.
1. ColoradoHistoryCivil War, 18611865. I. Title.
E498.9.S65 1989 978.8'02 88-40548
ISBN 0-8061-2180-7 (alk. paper)
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1989 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
Page v
For
Rodman W. Paul
and
Clark C. Spence
Page vii
CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Prologue
3
Part I. A Time for War: 186162
1. "Stand ON THE SIDE OF THE UNION!"
11
2. "Like a Lottery, the Prizes Attract"
29
3. The "Star of Empire" Rolling Westward
42
4. "I Think This 'the Place'"
57
Part II. A Time for Waiting: 186263
5. "Their Rights... Paramount to All Others"
91
6. "Pick and Shovel for Sword and Bayonet"
104
7. "There is No Such Thing As Can't"
117
Part III. A Time for Action: 186364
8. "GLORIOUS NEWS! Richmond is Ours! We Hope!"
141
9. "To Take Things Easy... and Live Comfortably"
153
10. "The Money is Not in the Hands of Christians"
164
Part IV. A Time for Peace: 186465
11. "Assumption and Jack-ass-ical Presumption"
195

Page viii
12. "All Quiet On the Plains"
208
13. "Water Got the Best of Whiskey"
222
14. "Jubilee Tonight... of the Second Birth of the Republic"
233
Epilogue
243
Bibliographical Essay
255
Index
259

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ILLUSTRATIONS
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