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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

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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Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919

University Press of Colorado

In this examination of more than 175 lynchings, Stephen J. Leonard illustrates the role economics, migration, race, and gender played in the shaping of justice and injustice in Colorado. One of the first comprehensive studies of the phenomenon in a Western state, Lynching in Colorado provides an essential complement to recent studies of Southern lynchings, demonstrating that at times the land of purple mountain's majesty was just as lynching-prone as was the land of Dixie. Written for general fans of Western history as well as scholars of American culture, Lynching in Colorado shows Westerners at their worst and their best as they struggled to define law and order.

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Gold Metal Waters

The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill

University Press of Colorado

Gold Metal Waters presents a uniquely inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when more than three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary of the Animas River.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Finding Solace in the Soil

An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache

University Press of Colorado

Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Daughters of Harriet

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Profiting from the Peak

Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs

University Press of Colorado

In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Teotihuacan and Early Classic Mesoamerica

Multiscalar Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Interregional Relations

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869

Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Adapting to the Land

A History of Agriculture in Colorado

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Study of the Raft

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2021
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