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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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An Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Stream Insects of Colorado, Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

Now available in a revised and updated edition, An Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Stream Insects of Colorado is a comprehensive resource on the biology, ecology, and systematics of aquatic insects found in Rocky Mountain streams. This richly illustrated volume includes descriptions of mountain stream ecosystems and habitats, simplified identification keys, and an extensive bibliography. This second edition is ideal for the naturalist, trout stream anglers interested in entomology, specialists in stream ecology, and students of aquatic entomology and freshwater biology.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Hell's Belles, Revised Edition

Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver, With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman

University Press of Colorado

This updated and revised edition of Hell's Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver.

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Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage

From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs

University Press of Colorado

or more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city.

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The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

First published in 1960, Neil R. Johnson's The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition, tells the story of Montford T. Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. Abandoned by his father after his mother's death and then left on his own following his grandmother's passing in 1868, Johnson became the owner of a piece of land in the northern part of the Chickasaw Nation in what is now Oklahoma.

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Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs

University Press of Colorado

Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs is the most comprehensive survey and discussion of primary documentary sources and relevant archaeological evidence available about the most enigmatic figure of ancient Mesoamerica.

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The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

University Press of Colorado

Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.

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Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience

University Press of Colorado

Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Riding the High Wire

Aerial Mine Tramways in the West

University Press of Colorado

Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870.

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They Sang for Horses

The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore

University Press of Colorado

They Sang for Horses, first published in 1966 and now considered a classic, remains the only comprehensive treatment of the profound mystical influence that the horse has exerted for more than three hundred years.

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Colcha

University Press of Colorado

In Colcha, Aaron Abeyta blends the contrasting rhythms of the English and Spanish languages, finding music in a simple yet memorable lyricism without losing the complexity and mystery of personal experience. His forty-two poems take the reader on a journey through a contemplative personal history that explores communal, political and societal issues as well as the individual experiences of family and friends.

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Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire

Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado
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The Song of the Hammer and Drill

The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914

University Press of Colorado

As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry and the state. First published in 1982, Song of the Hammer and Drill, with the help of more than 100 historical photographs, traces the mining and urban history of the San Juans from 1860-1914 through the lives of the people who opened, settled, and developed the beautiful but rugged mineral-rich peaks of southwestern Colorado.

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Pioneers, Peddlers, and Tsadikim

The Story of Jews in Colorado

University Press of Colorado

t published in 1957, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim, the original history of the Jewish people in Colorado, is now back in a revised and updated edition with twenty-one new illustrations. Containing a new preface and a comprehensive chronology covering more than 140 years, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim is a definitive volume for both the scholar of Jewish/Colorado history and the casual reader alike.

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Aspen

The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879 - 1893

University Press of Colorado
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The Colorado General Assembly, Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

The Colorado General Assembly is based on years of author John Straayer's first-hand observations, his review of original documents and secondary sources, and hundred of conversations with lawmakers, lobbyists, members of the legislative staff, executive branch personnel, and journalists.

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Sacred Objects and Sacred Places

Preserving Tribal Traditions

University Press of Colorado

Sacred Objects, Sacred Places combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies to present current issues of cultural preservation vital to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Complete with commentaries by native peoples, non-native curators, and archaeologists, this book discusses the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and key cultural compromises for preservation successes in protecting sacred places on private, state, and federal lands.

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The Future is Mestizo

Life Where Culture Meet, Revised Edition

By Virgilio Elizondo; Foreword by Sandra Cisneros; Introduction by Davíd Carrasco
University Press of Colorado

Twelve years after it was first published, The Future is Mestizo is now updated and revised with a new foreword, introduction, and epilogue. This book speaks to the largest demographic change in twentieth-century United States history-the Latinization of music, religion, and culture.

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A Chinaman's Chance

The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier

University Press of Colorado

A Chinaman's Chance not only offers general readers a narrative account of the Rocky Mountain mining frontier, but also introduces a fresh interpretation of the Chinese experience in nineteenth-century America to scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration history, and ethnicity in the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Innocents on the Ice

A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 1998
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The San Luis Valley, Second Edition

Land of the Six-Armed Cross

University Press of Colorado

In this sparkling new edition of The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross, Virginia McConnell Simmons lays before the reader the stories and voices of this multicultural land. Ranging from prehistoric peoples and historic Indians to early Spanish settlers, trappers, American explorers, railroads, and Euro-American pioneers, this book is a comprehensive volume covering the geography and social history of Colorado's San Luis Valley.

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Playing from Memory

University Press of Colorado

Playing From Memory is a deeply moving, compassionate novel about the power of marriage to survive under stress, a love story that tells of a musician's courageous battle against a degenerative illness and his wife's struggle to face the end of their life together.

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Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes

Edited by Davíd Carrasco; Foreword by William L. Fash
University Press of Colorado

A result of four years of cooperative research between the University of Colorado and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (formerly available as To Change Place) offers new interpretive models from the fields of archaeoastronomy, history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology.

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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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Fire in the Hole

University Press of Colorado

The award-winning Fire in the Hole is the tale of a young widowed lawyer swept up in the violence of the famous Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914 known to history as the Ludlow Massacre. Opposed by the coal companies, the union, Wall Street, and the federal government, Alex hatches a scheme involving the president to overturn martial law and settle the strike. A gripping tale of a woman who dares to go beyond the conventions of the day to find freedom and justice amid a power struggle so terrifying it would wrench the nation's conscience for decades.

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The New Religious Image of Urban America, Second Edition

The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center

University Press of Colorado

The only book that deals with the religious dimensions of malls. First published in 1986, it has been updated and expanded to include a new chapter on airports and ballparks as forms of the mall, and it also now includes a critical response.

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The Western San Juan Mountains

Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History

Edited by Rob Blair
University Press of Colorado

The most complete work published on the natural history of southwest Colorado's majestic mountain system, The Western San Juan Mountains: Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History is designed to be used while exploring the scenic 235-mile paved San Juan Skyway, which passes through Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Telluride, Dolores, and Cortez, Colorado.

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Rediscovering Northwest Denver

Its History, Its People, Its Landmarks

University Press of Colorado

Rediscovering Northwest Denver is a chatty, enjoyable read that tells of the tycoons and entrepreneurs whose fine Victorian homes still dot the area, and of the immigrants from various European cultures who clung together for comfort in the face of prejudice.

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Action before Westport, 1864

Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

Action Before Westport presents the only full account the unusual and daring Civil War battle of Westport, Missouri, in 1864. The climax of this last-ditch Confederate invasion of Missouri, the battle ended forever the bitter fighting that had devastated the Missouri-Kansas border.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Cowboy Life

Reconstructing an American Myth

University Press of Colorado

First published in 1975 and now in paperback, Cowboy Life continues to be a landmark study on the historical and legendary dimensions of the cowboy.

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New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers

1866-1900

University Press of Colorado
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Ecological and General Systems

An Introduction to Systems Ecology, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

Using an energy systems language that combines energetics, kinetics, information, cybernetics, and simulation, Ecological and General Systems compares models of many fields of science, helping to derive general systems principles.

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Techniques for Pollination Biologists

University Press of Colorado

i>Techniques for Pollination Biologists</i> is the first book to incorporate all techniques published in the pollination literature as well as unpublished methods compiled from practicing pollination biologists.

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Rocky Mountain Boom Town

A History of Durango, Colorado

University Press of Colorado
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Sacred Land, Sacred View

Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 1992
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Nursing

The Philosophy and Science of Caring

University Press of Colorado

It is time that we study the implicit and explicit meanings associated with the concepts of care and caring so that we can reduce their ambiguities. Furthermore, the humanistic, scientific, and linguistic meanings related to nursing care and caring behaviors in any culture remain a most fascinating area of study for nurses.

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Rocky Mountain National Park

A History

University Press of Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park: A History is more than just the story of Rocky Mountain in its brief tenure as a national park. Its scope includes the earliest traces of human activity in the region and outlines the major events of exploration, settlement, and exploitation.

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