Colorado (U.S. state)

Colorado is a state in the western USA. Its capital is Denver. On August 1, 1876 Colorado became the 38th state to enter the union. Colorado is known as the "Centennial State" because it entered 100 years after the the nation was born. The current governor of Colorado is Bill Ritter, a member of the Democratic Party.

Bibliography

• Abbott, Carl, Stephen J. Leonard, and David McComb. Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. 2nd ed 1982.
• Athearn, Robert G. The Coloradans. 1976. popular history
• Athearn, Robert G. Rebel of the Rockies: A History of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. 1962.
• Baker, James H., and Leroy R. Hafen, eds. History of Colorado. 5 vol State Historical Society of Colorado, 1927, with many short biographical sketches
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 (1890) 828 pages; famous classic; online edition
• Eugene H. Berwanger. The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76, (2007) 208 pages
• Cassels, E. Steve. The Archeology of Colorado. Boulder: Johnson Books, 1983
• Cronin, Thomas E. and Robert D. Loevy. Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State, (1993) online edition
• Ellis, Elmer. Henry Moore Teller: Defender of the West. 1941.
• Ellis, Richard N., and Duane A. Smith. Colorado: A History in Photographs. 1991.
• Gulliford, Andrew. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885-1985. 1989.
• Hafen, Le Roy R. Colorado: The Story of a Western Commonwealth. 1933.
• Hogan, Richard. Class and Community in Frontier Colorado. 1990.
• Lamm, Richard D., and Duane A. Smith. Pioneers and Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile. 1981. popular
• Lorch, Robert S. Colorado's Government. 5th ed. 1991. textbook
• Ormes, Robert M. Guide to the Colorado Mountains. 7th ed. 1979.
• Parsons, Eugene. The Making of Colorado: A Historical Sketch (1908) 324 pages online edition
• Rohrbough, Malcom J. Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893. 1986. scholarly study
• Scamehorn, Lee. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado (2002) online edition
• Scamehorn, Lee. Mill & Mine: The Cf&I in the Twentieth Century (1992) online edition
• Schulte, Steven C. Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (2002) online edition
• Smith, Duane A. Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man, 2002 online edition
• Sprague, Marshall. Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold (1979) online edition
• Ubbelohde, Carl, Maxine Benson, and Duane Smith. A Colorado History. 6th ed. 1988. textbook
• Wright, James Edward. The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado. 1974. on 1890s

Primary sources

• Ubbelohde, Carl, ed. A Colorado Reader.2nd ed

1964.

• Fossett, Frank. Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region (1878) 470 pages online edition
• Fossett, Frank. Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines: Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts (1880), 1184 pages online edition
• Parsons, Eugene. A Guidebook to Colorado (1911) 390 pages online edition

See also

Rocky Mountains Denver U.S. States and Territories