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In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.
The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.
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Innocents on the Ice
A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1998
The San Luis Valley, Second Edition
Land of the Six-Armed Cross
University Press of Colorado
In this sparkling new edition of The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross, Virginia McConnell Simmons lays before the reader the stories and voices of this multicultural land. Ranging from prehistoric peoples and historic Indians to early Spanish settlers, trappers, American explorers, railroads, and Euro-American pioneers, this book is a comprehensive volume covering the geography and social history of Colorado's San Luis Valley.
Playing from Memory
University Press of Colorado
Playing From Memory is a deeply moving, compassionate novel about the power of marriage to survive under stress, a love story that tells of a musician's courageous battle against a degenerative illness and his wife's struggle to face the end of their life together.
Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes
Edited by Davíd Carrasco; Foreword by William L. Fash
University Press of Colorado
A result of four years of cooperative research between the University of Colorado and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (formerly available as To Change Place) offers new interpretive models from the fields of archaeoastronomy, history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology.
The Great Persuader
The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
University Press of Colorado
The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad.
- Copyright year: 1999
Fire in the Hole
University Press of Colorado
The award-winning Fire in the Hole is the tale of a young widowed lawyer swept up in the violence of the famous Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914 known to history as the Ludlow Massacre. Opposed by the coal companies, the union, Wall Street, and the federal government, Alex hatches a scheme involving the president to overturn martial law and settle the strike. A gripping tale of a woman who dares to go beyond the conventions of the day to find freedom and justice amid a power struggle so terrifying it would wrench the nation's conscience for decades.
The New Religious Image of Urban America, Second Edition
The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center
University Press of Colorado
The only book that deals with the religious dimensions of malls. First published in 1986, it has been updated and expanded to include a new chapter on airports and ballparks as forms of the mall, and it also now includes a critical response.
The City and the Saloon
Denver, 1858-1916
University Press of Colorado
During Denver's wild ride from frontier mining town to twentieth-century metropolis, the city's saloons, like those of many other western frontier towns, played a vital role in the development of the city. Now with a new preface, Tom Noel's classic study, The City and the Saloon, is a liquid history of how Denver's bars both shaped and reflected the Mile High City's birth and adolescence.
Colorado Profiles
Men and Women Who Shaped the Centennial State
By John H. Monnett and Michael McCarthy
University Press of Colorado
This popular volume presents the exciting history of Colorado through the lives of thirty-two of its most noteworthy citizens, both famous and obscure, who helped to shape Colorado as we know it today. Among those featured are: Black Kettle, David Day, Anne Bassett, Lewis Price, Casimiro Barela, Josephine Roche, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, and Enos Mills.
The Western San Juan Mountains
Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History
Edited by Rob Blair
University Press of Colorado
The most complete work published on the natural history of southwest Colorado's majestic mountain system, The Western San Juan Mountains: Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History is designed to be used while exploring the scenic 235-mile paved San Juan Skyway, which passes through Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Telluride, Dolores, and Cortez, Colorado.
Rediscovering Northwest Denver
Its History, Its People, Its Landmarks
University Press of Colorado
Rediscovering Northwest Denver is a chatty, enjoyable read that tells of the tycoons and entrepreneurs whose fine Victorian homes still dot the area, and of the immigrants from various European cultures who clung together for comfort in the face of prejudice.
Action before Westport, 1864
Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
Action Before Westport presents the only full account the unusual and daring Civil War battle of Westport, Missouri, in 1864. The climax of this last-ditch Confederate invasion of Missouri, the battle ended forever the bitter fighting that had devastated the Missouri-Kansas border.
- Copyright year: 1995
Cowboy Life
Reconstructing an American Myth
Edited by William W. Savage, Jr.
University Press of Colorado
First published in 1975 and now in paperback, Cowboy Life continues to be a landmark study on the historical and legendary dimensions of the cowboy.
Ecological and General Systems
An Introduction to Systems Ecology, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
Using an energy systems language that combines energetics, kinetics, information, cybernetics, and simulation, Ecological and General Systems compares models of many fields of science, helping to derive general systems principles.
Mining America
The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980
University Press of Colorado
Mining America is a vivid account of the damage wrought by almost two centuries of mining, but its main focus is on the conflicting attitudes behind the destruction and on society's responses. Veteran author and historian Duane Smith asserts that the marriage of mining and environmental issues was bound to touch America's sensitive pocketbook nerve - but the question now is, are all groups willing to pay the price?
Horace Tabor
His Life and the Legend
University Press of Colorado
Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend is the first biography to give full attention to Tabor's mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades. It is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary that even in his own lifetime the facts were largely obscured behind the legend.
Techniques for Pollination Biologists
By Carol A. Kearns; Edited by David W. Inouye
University Press of Colorado
i>Techniques for Pollination Biologists</i> is the first book to incorporate all techniques published in the pollination literature as well as unpublished methods compiled from practicing pollination biologists.
Sacred Land, Sacred View
Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1992
Nursing
The Philosophy and Science of Caring
By Jean Watson
University Press of Colorado
It is time that we study the implicit and explicit meanings associated with the concepts of care and caring so that we can reduce their ambiguities. Furthermore, the humanistic, scientific, and linguistic meanings related to nursing care and caring behaviors in any culture remain a most fascinating area of study for nurses.
Along the Ramparts of the Tetons
The Saga of Jackson Hole, Wyoming
University Press of Colorado
These episodes in the long and colorful cavalcade of Jackson Hole are woven together to form a work of Western Americana rich in anecdotes and portraits of delightfully eccentric characters.
Rocky Mountain National Park
A History
University Press of Colorado
Rocky Mountain National Park: A History is more than just the story of Rocky Mountain in its brief tenure as a national park. Its scope includes the earliest traces of human activity in the region and outlines the major events of exploration, settlement, and exploitation.
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