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Disaster At The Colorado
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Author : Charles Baley
language : en
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-01
Disaster At The Colorado written by Charles Baley and has been published by Utah State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-01 with History categories.
Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow its tracks. The government considered the 1857 exploration a success and the road it opened a promising alternative route to California but expected such things as military posts and developed water supplies to be needed before it was ready for regular travel. Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic. In 1858 there was a need for an alternative. Emigrants avoided the main California Trail because of a U.S. Army expedition to subdue Mormons in Utah. The Southern Route ran through Apache territory, was difficult for the army to guard, and was long. When a party of Missouri and Iowa emigrants known as the Rose-Baley wagon train arrived in Albuquerque, they were encouraged to be the first to try the new Beale road. Their journey became a rolling disaster. Beale's trail was more difficult to follow than expected; water sources and feed for livestock harder to find. Indians along the way had been described as peaceful, but the Hualapais persistently harassed the emigrants and shot their stock, and when the wagon train finally reached the Colorado River, a large party of Mojaves attacked them. Several of the emigrants were killed, and the remainder began a difficult retreat to Albuquerque. Their flight, with wounded companions and reduced supplies, became ever more arduous. Along the way they met other emigrant parties and convinced them to join the increasingly disorderly and distressed return journey. Charles Baley tells this dramatic story and discusses its aftermath, for the emigrants, for Beale's Wagon Road, and for the Mojaves, against whom some of the emigrants pressed legal claims with the federal government.
Disaster At The Colorado
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Author : Charles Baley
language : en
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Release Date : 2002-06
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Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."
Colorado S Deadliest Floods
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Author : Darla Sue Dollman
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-04
Colorado S Deadliest Floods written by Darla Sue Dollman and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-04 with History categories.
Ranked among the top ten states for both disasters and dry climate, Colorado has a long history of extreme weather. On May 19, 1864, residents of the fledgling gold rush town of Denver awoke to a wall of water slamming into the city with enough force to flatten buildings and rip clothing from its victims. The infamous Big Thompson Canyon flood of 1976 killed 144 residents, tourists and campers. Per the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Coloradoans experienced twenty-two floods with contemporary monetary losses of $2 million or more since the flood of 1864. And as the population continues to grow, the loss of lives, property, crops and livestock may increase. Local author Darla Sue Dollman, who witnessed and survived many of the contemporary disasters, examines the state's most catastrophic flash floods from 1864 to 2013.
Colorado Avalanche Disasters
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Author : John W. Jenkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Throughout Colorado's history its mountains have been the focus of its economic development but along with the attraction there has been an attendant danger. Avalanches have taken their toll on travelers, miners, and skiers. Avalanches cause more property damage, deaths, and injuries in Colorado than any other state in the Union, including Alaska.In Colorado Avalanche Disasters you will relive the sacrifices, despair, and elation of men, women, and children who faced Colorado's greatest avalanche disasters. These true tales carry the reader throughout the mountains of Colorado -- from the northern ranges to the southern San Juans.John Jenkins graduated from Western State College with a degree in history. He is descended from a pioneering Colorado family -- his being the fourth generation. He has written articles on Colorado history for the Colorado Mountain Club, worked seasonally as a park ranger in Alaska and helped place the American Mountaineering Center in Golden on the National Register of Historic Places. For recreation he enjoys telemark skiing and climbing Colorado's high peaks. This is his first book.
Natural Disaster 1965 Colorado Floods
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Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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Natural Disaster 1965 Colorado Floods
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language : en
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Release Date : 1967
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Colorado And The Silver Crash The Panic Of 1893
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Author : John F. Steinle
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021
Colorado And The Silver Crash The Panic Of 1893 written by John F. Steinle and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
A catastrophic depression engulfed Colorado in 1893. The government's decision to adopt the gold standard and stop buying silver hit the mining industry like a cave-in. Unemployment reached 90 percent in Leadville, a city built on silver. Strikes by union miners in Cripple Creek and Leadville led to destruction and death. Political parties split along battle lines of gold versus silver. By 1898, the country had begun to recover, but silver mining was never the same. Using firsthand commentary and more than one hundred historic photographs, John Steinle skillfully commemorates the story of Coloradans trapped in the unprecedented social, economic and political conflict of America's first great depression.
Colorado Disasters True Stories Of Centennial State Tragedies And Triumphs
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Author : Phyllis J. Perry
language : en
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Colorado Disasters True Stories Of Centennial State Tragedies And Triumphs written by Phyllis J. Perry and has been published by Farcountry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with History categories.
IN COLORADO DISASTERS, Boulder historian and educator Phyllis J. Perry chronicles the Centennial State's gamut of natural and human-caused disasters, from foods, mudslides and avalanches, to massive wildfires, deadly explosions, train wrecks, airplane crashes, monster tornadoes, and more. Covering more than two centuries of tragedies, Perry's careful research and lively writing brings to life the true stories--at turns heart-stopping and heroic--of the victims, survivors, and rescuers who were there.
1965 Flood Disasters In Colorado
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Author : Colorado. General Assembly. Legislative Council
language : en
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Release Date : 1965
1965 Flood Disasters In Colorado written by Colorado. General Assembly. Legislative Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Floods categories.
Colorado S Deadliest Floods
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Author : Darla Sue Dollman
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2017-09-04
Colorado S Deadliest Floods written by Darla Sue Dollman and has been published by History Press Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-04 with History categories.
Ranked among the top ten states for both disasters and dry climate, Colorado has a long history of extreme weather. On May 19, 1864, residents of the fledgling gold rush town of Denver awoke to a wall of water slamming into the city with enough force to flatten buildings and rip clothing from its victims. The infamous Big Thompson Canyon flood of 1976 killed 144 residents, tourists and campers. Per the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Coloradoans experienced twenty-two floods with contemporary monetary losses of $2 million or more since the flood of 1864. And as the population continues to grow, the loss of lives, property, crops and livestock may increase. Local author Darla Sue Dollman, who witnessed and survived many of the contemporary disasters, examines the state's most catastrophic flash floods from 1864 to 2013.
