Denver inside & out [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Denver, : History Colorado, the Colorado Historical Society, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Disciplina: 978.8; 978.883
• Soggetto topico: Geography - Colorado
• Soggetto geografico: Denver (Colo.) History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Forward!; Contents; Building Denver; Rails to the Rockies; Denver's Pioneer Medical Community: 1858-1900; "A Premonition of Our Future Grandeur"; Women's Space; Assembling a More Perfect Machine; Denver's Disorderly Women; The Colorado Women of the Ku Klux Klan; Cultural Identity; In Search of Wealth and Health; "I Am a Denver Indian!"; Urban Nature; A Gateway Into the Mountains; Modern Mountain Views; Inventing Cherry Creek; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Denver turned 150 just a few years ago--not too shabby for a city so down on its luck in 1868 that Cheyenne boosters deemed it ""too dead to bury."" Still, most of the city's history is a recent memory: Denver's entire story spans just two human lifetimes. In Denver Inside and Out, eleven authors illustrate how pioneers built enduring educational, medical, and transportation systems; how Denver's social and political climate contributed to the elevation of women; how Denver residents wrestled with-and exploited-the city's natural features; and how diverse cultural groups became an essential
• Titolo autorizzato: Denver inside & out
• ISBN: 1-4571-1162-4; 1-4571-1687-1; 0-942576-56-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781889103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Colorado history (Denver, Colo.) ; ; no. 16.