Colorado: A History of the Centennial State Fourth Edition

About this book

Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition co-authors Carl Abbott Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events findings and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts new alliances and changing ways of life as Hispanic European and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing balanced coverage of the entire states history - from Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig - the authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed and gained influence. While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining agriculture manufacturing and tourism on Colorado this new edition broadens its coverage. The authors expand their discussion of the twentieth century with several new chapters on the economy politics and cultural conflicts of recent years. In addition they address changes in attitudes toward the natural environment as well as the contributions of women Hispanics African Americans and Asian Americans to the state. Dozens of new illustrations updated statistics and an extensive bibliography of the most recent research on Colorado history enhance this edition.