Fort Morgan Public Library

"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 the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing...

Presents a potpourri of historical information and legends about Colorado.

""Life on the Morapos" is a book based on my mother, Janet Eberle's, daily diary entries. She began writing in 1944 and continued this practice until 2003. This book covers the years from 1944 to 1963, when we lived on the Morapos Creek, in rural Moffat County, Colorado near Hamilton, Colorado. This book explores everyday life on the ranch as well as unusual events such as getting electricity and all of its conveniences in 1953, the harsh winter of...

"No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek."Wyoming Library Roundup "This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating...