Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

ere is a myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, "Women of the West" introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to recreate a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. 146 photos.

From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.

"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command across France: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...

"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...

A collection of essays in which the author discusses her personal relationship with the natural beauty and harshness of Wyoming.

This ever-expanding Architects of Colorado biographical series focuses on individual architects and landscape architects who practiced professionally in Colorado after 1860. In addition to a short biographical sketch, a list of credited buildings, structures, and sites is provided. This information is based largely on History Colorado files, particularly National Register and State Register nomination documentation and the Site Files cultural resource...

Brief summations of all law enforcement officers killed in Colorado. Research came primarily from newspaper accounts and departmental records. In some cases, information was sketchy. Every attempt was made to accurately summarize the information available.