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An Isolated Empire: A History of Northwest Colorado BLM Cultural Resource Series (Colorado: No. 12) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction and Chronological Summary
Chapter 1: Northwestern Colorado Prior to Exploitation
Chapter 2: The Fur Trade
Chapter 3: Exploration in Northwestern Colorado
Chapter 4: Mining and Transportation in Early Western Colorado
Chapter 5: Confrontations: Settlement versus the Ute Indians
Chapter 6: Settlement in Middle Park and the Yampa Valley
Chapter 7: Development of the Cattle and Sheep Industry
Chapter 8: Mining and Transportation, 1890-1920
Chapter 9: The "Moffat Road" and Northwestern Colorado, 1903-1948
Chapter 10: Development of Northwestern Colorado, 1890-1940
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispieces from: Colorado's First Portrait by Clifford P. Westermeier, Courtesy of New Mexico Press, reproduced with permission.
Fig. 1: A Fur Trapper and His PonyFig. 2: Hydraulic Mining Operations
Fig. 3: Freight Wagons
Fig. 4: Cattlemen and Their Herds
Fig. 5: Yampa Valley Coal Mine, ca. 1920
Fig. 6: The Opening of the Dotsero Cutoff
Fig. 7: Great Divide, Colorado, ca. 1917
Fig. 8: Land Advertisement
MAPS
Map 2: Fur Trade Areas
Map 3: The Explorers
Map 4: Early Mining and Settlement
Map 5: The Thornburgh Battle
Map 6: Settlement in Middle Park and the Yampa Valley
Map 7: Concentration of Sheep and Cattle Areas
Map 8: Later Mining and Transportation
Map 9: The Moffat Road
Map 10: Northwest Colorado, 1890-1940
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