David Lavender

David Lavender (1910-2003) won the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado, 1996, and was honored by the California State Library Foundation for Historical Contributions in 1998.

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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
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The Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.

  • Copyright year: 1984
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