Buy Colorado here, one of 750 Colorado History books offered for sale at discount prices here in the history books section at R bookshop. There are currently 73081 history books in our history books section, and over 1,000,000 books listed in our book store. We greatly appreciate your patronage at R bookshop and look forward to offering you a large selection of great books at discount prices now and in the future. Thank you for shopping at R Bookshop!
|
You Are Here: Home > History Books > Colorado History > Item 238
 |
Colorado
|
by Frank Waters
Sales Rank: 1823788
|
List Price: $14.95
$0.95
At Amazon
on 6-19-2008.
|
|
|
|
Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 412 pages
Published by: Swallow Press February 28, 1985
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0804008647
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0804008648
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Reader Reviews
Frank Waters covers all aspects of the history of the Colorado and puts the river as just a part of the entire drainage. It's really a history of the "triangle" of the Rockies that stretches from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, to the Front Range of the Colorado and over to Utah. The apex is the mouth of the river at the head of the Gulf of California. Outside of the geologic prominence of the entire region, which he addresses at the begining and then at the end when he talks about the Grand Canyon, he goes into the Indian civilizations, the Spanish settlements, the American trappers and gold miners and on to the Mormons and more recent history. He does a great job describing the development of the Imperial Valley in California, not only for its importance as a use of the Colorado river water, but also because of his familiarity having been a telephone repairman in the 1920s out there. The descriptions of and respect for the Indians showed where his heart really laid. The stories of the white man, be them Spanish or American, was to describe the man over land mentality. This is a book written 50 years ago and updated a bit in the 80s, but it gives a history in vignettes of what occurred on the Colorado Plateau over the last, say 1,000 years. Good book. Thanks, Ross, for giving it to me for Christmas, 2004. Mike Oakland, CA 2/5/05
Comment | |
(Report this)
Back To Top
|
Colorado
Available from Amazon
Price: $0.95
Updated on 6-19-2008.
|
NOTICE: All prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
| We offer Colorado and other related Colorado History Books here at Rbookshop.com. To view more books about Colorado History please use the previous and next buttons near the top of this page.
|
|
Search for books at
