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“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,...
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,...
Regional books: “The Homeplace,” “Revelation,” “What You Don’t Know”
Chase Ford was a superstar, a small-town boy who made it good with the Lakers and married a country music singer.聽 It all came crashing down, however, when a knee...
Regional books: The death penalty, terrorism and treason
You might think from the movies and the pulps that there were thousands of hangings in the West.聽 In fact, Colorado has had only 103 legal executions in its history.
Regional books: You won’t want to put down “Dust Bowl Girls”
鈥淒ust Bowl Girls鈥� is the sort of book reviewers love to find.聽 Denver author Lydia Reeder takes what might have been an academic work about a basketball team in the...
Regional books: Women’s Westerns rare, but can be fun reads
Westerns have been around since the dime novels of the 1840s.
Regional books: “Murder in the Mile High City,” “Blood on the Tracks” and “Inherit the Bones”
Wow!聽 Who knew what a dangerous place Colorado was? There have been dozens, maybe hundreds, of murders here since Arthur Binegraff killed his brother-in-law, John Stuffle, in 1859. Binegraff netted...
In “Colorado Then and Now,” a great-great grandson revisits his relative’s photographs
"Colorado Then & Now" features side-by-side photographs taken by Grant Collier and his great-great grandfather more than a hundred years apart, and shows the drastic changes in Colorado over the...