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I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us.
Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends among the dead hold it back until you have passed by. Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained.
Eric Dietrich, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Updated with ninety new photographs and revised text, this lively history of Boulder, Colorado, discusses key people and events and traces culture, architecture, urban development, industry, and more over a century. The original planners of Boulder City, Nevada, did not expect that the community of workers and engineers would outlast the construction of the great Hoover Dam.
At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder enjoys much of the best scenic hiking in the state. Formerly "Front Range Bouldering: Boulder Area," this book has been completely updated and reformatted to make finding the best local bouldering easier than ever.
Suddenly, he finds himself threatened by a pack of ruthless gangsters with a vicious plan to blow up the dam! There will be feats of heroism and periods of exhaustion in the creation of the Boulder Dam. Deciding to go hiking in Colorado can be a little like going to the grocery store without a grocery list. With so many options in our area, this book provides a great checklist by which to organzie a summer's worth of outdoor activities. Christmas Eve In the waning light of day, an iconic Pacific-style steam engine hustles an express train across Illinois on the Chicago and North Western railroad.
Locomotives of its kind were the workhorses of the day, pulling trains that stopped at numerous rural towns along the route to Chicago. Every stop is a joyous occasion, as passengers arrive home to celebrate the holidays with family and friends. Although there are more glamorous engines, nothing conjures heartwarming images of Christmas quite like a Pacific. But no matter where you roam in this beautiful state, this book can guide you. Like other books in this popular series, Roadside History of Colorado is divided into geographical-historical areas, making it easy to explore the state region by region.
Passenger Trains played an important role in the growth of traveling across America or to the nearest city—the height of its service after WWII until the start up of Amtrak.
This book provides railroad hobbyists, historians, museum operators, and transportation instructors and planners with information about the types of train services and operations in various corridors, such as Chicago — Milwaukee; the overnight and daytime long distance service; transcontinental trains, and the various types of local trains on both main lines and branch lines. The book reviews the types of sleeping car, coach, parlor car, food and beverage services available at that time.
The equipment and service such as vista dome coaches, dining and lounge cars with many types of meals and beverages, sleeping accommodations and coach seats including reclining and leg rests were drawing cards for passenger traffic. This historic review, including train schedules and advertisements, provides information on train consists which is valuable for creating model railroad layout size trains.
Western Reflections Publishing Co. A big herd of bachelor bulls, Denver's pigeon man, Rattlesnake Jake, underground bread-baking, and about a hundred other forgotten places and interesting events are included.
Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Historian, writer, and genealogist Mona Lambrecht grew Boulder: (Images of America) - Kindle edition by Mona Lambrecht. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or. Arcadia Publishing ISBN: Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Date: 11/10/ State: Colorado Series: Images of America Images: Black.
If you ever thought was dull, then glance inside this fascinating book for a surprise. The story of the Las Animas Mining District in Colorado's San Juan Mountains began with the Colorado Gold Rush of , but it was silver that kept the local mines operating for over one hundred years. A well-documented study that separates fact from folklore, Eric Twitty's Basins of Silver avoids the false information and exaggerations of many current commentaries on this famous mining district. Whether interested in Colorado mining history, in-depth, or exciting tales of man against nature - this book is an interesting and fun read.
Burlington Route Historical Society.
Reprint of the original edition, plus an additional chapter including the final twelve years of Rio Grande passenger service, both standard and narrow gauge, to Bound in color pictorial laminated boards. A fine and bright copy, issued without dust jacket. Summit County's Narrow-Gauge Railroads tells the story of the two railroads that fought for dominance in Summit County, Colorado, during the late s and early s: The two railroads developed an intense rivalry as they sought to monopolize the county's economic potential.
Altitude, heavy winter snow, and rugged mountainous terrain combined to provide a unique set of challenges to company management as well as to the crews as they battled to lay the tracks and provide much-needed rail service to the residents and businesses of the county. Intimately tied to the mining economy, the fortunes of the railroads plummeted when the mining economy collapsed.
Although poorly financed and poorly built, the railroads changed the living conditions for county residents. Without the railroads bringing the necessary equipment and lumber, nine huge gold-dredging boats would not have scoured the county's major waterways between and The ribbon of dusty road on Rollins Pass has a timeless and beloved history.
First known as Boulder Pass, this comparatively low saddle on the Continental Divide in Colorado has been in continuous use for millennia. First utilized as an expansive Native American game drive complex, the pass subsequently functioned as a toll wagon road in the s.
Vigilantes bypassed the law, frequently breaking suspected criminals out of custody to hang them. Such extralegal persecution did not always meet with unanimous community approval. While Coloradans generally tolerated lynchings as a form of protection from criminals, the citizens themselves often felt that civil rights were violated in the process. In , for example, a pregnant woman and her husband were hanged in Ouray on suspicion of death allegedly caused by child abuse, causing a national uproar. Reporters condemned the lynching as barbarous, and the townspeople argued the atrocity of the crime demanded an equally brutal punishment.
Although Coloradans sought to distinguish their mob justice from the widely condemned racial persecution of the Southern states, they also took part in racially motivated lynching. Only five recorded lynchings are explicitly tied to race, but many more took place, particularly in the early twentieth century.
In , Porter was burned at the stake in front of a cheering mob of almost people in Limon after being accused of the rape and murder of twelve-year-old Louise Frost. Little concrete evidence existed to link Porter to the crime, yet the mob cruelly executed the young man. In order to distance themselves from the atrocious practice of racially motivated lynching, commonly considered a Southern vice, participants in Colorado lynchings downplayed the importance of race in many vigilante killings. After , lynch mobs only occasionally flared up to dole out publicly rendered justice.