Regional fiction: Jim Fergus follows up on his best-selling “One Thousand White Women”
鈥淗ell hath no fury like the vengeance of mothers,鈥� writes Jim Fergus in the sequel to his best-selling 鈥淥ne Thousand White Women.鈥�
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Regional books: “The Death of an Heir” covers murder of Adolph Coors III
The 1960 murder of Adolph Coors III was one of Colorado鈥檚 greatest tragedies. The 44-year-old chairman of Adolph Coors Co., Ad Coors, was killed in a botched kidnapping attempt by...
Regional Books: “Into Enemy Arms,” “Pop-Up Girl” and “Quiet Until the Thaw”
鈥淚nto Enemy Arms,鈥� a tale of love that links both North and South, is a departure for Colorado author Rex Burns.聽 Known for his highly acclaimed mysteries of Denver detective...
Regional books: Murder and mayhem during Colorado’s gold rush; western music of Tin Pan Alley
Colorado was founded on gold. In 1859, some 100,000 people joined the rush to the Rockies, and in a couple of years, they had filed nearly 15,000 claims. Those gold-seekers...
Regional Books: “A Paris All Your Own”
When my daughter and I were in Paris several years ago, we were approached by a poorly dressed woman outside a museum.聽 She had stooped down, swept her hand across...
Regional books: “Long Night Moon,” “Desert Vengeance” and more
Santiago Silva has graduated from college, been hired for a dream job in a San Francisco publishing house and connected with a new girlfriend, who just happens to be the...
Regional books: “Lakota Performers in Europe”
鈥淟akota Performers in Europe鈥� is not only an entertaining book but is also a contribution to the history of the Wild West抖阴ap greatest showman and the Indians who were his...
“Death on Nantucket” another Merry Folger winner from Denver author
Mathews is a story teller, and as with her other books, she has a fine sense of time and place.
Regional books: Denver Dry Goods, Route 66, “Voices of Counterculture”
By聽Sandra Dallas, Special to The Denver Post The Denver Dry Goods:聽 Where Colorado Shopped With Confidence.聽 By Mark A. Barnhouse.聽 History Press. If you lived in Colorado a generation or...
Regional books: “Dodge City,” “Denver’s Civic Center” and curious names
An apocryphal story tells of a despondent man getting on a train.聽 The conductor asks where he鈥檚 going, and the man tells him, 鈥淭o hell, most likely.鈥澛� Replies the conductor,...