Duane A. Smith Boeken

Duane Smith wordt erkend voor zijn uitgebreide geschriften over de geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse Zuidwesten. Zijn academische werk duikt diep in onderwerpen als het verleden van Colorado, de mijnbouwindustrie en de stedelijke ontwikkeling van de regio. Smiths proza kenmerkt zich door grondig onderzoek en boeiende verhalen, die historische vertellingen tot leven brengen. Zijn werken worden gewaardeerd om hun diepgang en hun vermogen om complexe historische gebeurtenissen en figuren voor lezers te belichten.

Mesa Verde National Park
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The book explores Mesa Verde National Park, highlighting its significance as America's first cultural park and the world's first cultural heritage park, established in 1906. It preserves the heritage of the prehistoric Puebloan people in a stunning southwestern Colorado landscape. The narrative weaves in the broader history involving the Ute people, Theodore Roosevelt, and Willa Cather, enriched by remarkable vintage photographs that capture the park's archaeological legacy and its captivating natural beauty.
Colorado
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Colorado's history, like the state itself, has had many ups and downs, booms and busts in farming and ranching, in mining and railroading, in water and oil have made Colorado's past a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. In each chapter of this book, you will find some questions, activities, and suggested reading to help you learn more of Colorado's story than we can present here. In these pages. you will discover a high, dry state with rugged natural beauty and an awesome history.

Mesa Verde National Park

Colorado