Akron Public Library

Memoir of her career as a Broadway actress, silent screen star, housewife, hard-rock miner and fighter for women's rights in the Colorado State legislature.

"Delicious slices of Denver's past, including the Mint, drinking water, City Ditch, Cherry Creek, the South Platte, Tabor ghosts, the Windsor Hotel, the Baron of Montclair, Overland Park, Buffalo Bill, Elitch Gardens and Eugene Field." -- from "101 Best Books on Colorado" bibliography.

Colorado Collection

Includes index, bibl., maps

The book lists 1,900 Colorado communities, counties, peaks, passes, and other geographical features. Each alphabetical entry includes, as appropriate, a pronunciation guide, elevation, location, date of founding, history, and origin of the name.

This book brings to life pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to exploration and development of the American West to daily life in the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction,...

"Rock art, a modern misnomer that originated in Europe, is a categorical term that includes purposeful human modification of in-place rock surfaces by pecking, scratching, incising, engraving, drilling, carving, grinding, and painting to produce preconceived images. Thus, the bedrock grinding surfaces resulting from grinding activities to produce seed flour are not considered rock art, nor is a decorated pebble considered rock art."