Sandra Dallas

Regional books: “Dodge City,” “Denver’s Civic Center” and curious names

April 13, 2017 at 4:52 p.m.

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”

March 16, 2017 at 6:12 p.m.

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

February 16, 2017 at 5:42 p.m.

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”

January 19, 2017 at 2:46 p.m.

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

January 6, 2017 at 2:34 p.m.

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”

December 15, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.

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

December 9, 2016 at 1:38 p.m.

"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...

Regional books: Amendment 2, newspaper and Colorado history

November 17, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

It抖阴ap been 25 years since Colorado passed Amendment 2. 聽The passage, which led to a nation-wide boycott of Colorado, allowed discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Book review: “My Bad,” set in North Denver, is Manuel Ramos’ finest novel

October 24, 2016 at 2:20 p.m.

In 鈥淒esperado,鈥� his last novel, Manuel Ramos introduced Gus Corral, a North Denver Hispanic man with good intentions and bad instincts.聽 Now Ramos brings back an older, more mature Gus...

Regional books: A classic Western, justice in ’50s Arizona, “Devil’s Night”

October 16, 2016 at 12:55 a.m.

Riding over a remote part of his ranch in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, J.B. Bennett discovers the body of Star, a young Indian woman.

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