Imagine a Great City: Denver at 150 A Selected Bibliography

The exhibition Imagine a Great City commemorates Denver’s 150th anniversary and is on view at the Colorado History Museum from November 22, 2008 to January 2, 2010. This selected source list reflects the exhibit’s thematic arrangement.

General Reading Arps, Louisa Ward. Denver in Slices. Denver: Sage Books, 1959; Athens: Swallow Press, 1983, 1998.

Dorsett, Lyle W. and Michael McCarthy. The Queen City: A History of Denver. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Co., 1977.

Foster, Mark S. Citizen Quigg: A Mayor’s Life of Civic Service. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.

Goodstein, Phil H. Denver from the Bottom Up: From Sand Creek to Ludlow. Denver: New Social Publications, 2003.

Goodstein, Phil H. Denver in Our Time: A People’s History of the Modern Mile High City. Denver: New Social Publications, 1999.

Goodstein, Phil H. From Soup Lines to the Front Lines: Denver During the Depression and World War II, 1927–1947. Denver: New Social Publications, 2007.

Kelly, George V. The Old Gray Mayors of Denver. Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1974.

Leonard, Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel. Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1990.

Noel, Thomas J. Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857–1989. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1989.

Secrest, Clark. “The Night the South Platte Got Even.” Colorado Heritage (Winter 1997): 24–28.

Smiley, Jerome. History of Denver: With Outlines of the Earlier History of the Rocky Mountain Country. Denver: The Times-Sun Publishing Co., 1901.

Wilson, William E. “’Colorado is Snowbound,’ The Great Front Range Blizzard of 1913 (and its 2003 Counterpart). Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2003), pp. 2–35.

Webb, Wellington E., with Cindy Brovsky. Wellington Webb: The Man, the Mayor, and the Making of Modern Denver. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2007.

Newspapers and Periodicals The Colorado Statesman The Denver Express Denver Municipal Facts The Denver Post, 1895–present The Denver Republican The Denver Statesman The Denver Times El Gallo Polly Pry Rocky Mountain News, 1859–present

Why Denver/Colorado Territory Barth, Gunther. Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of Denver and San Francisco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Berwanger, Eugene H. The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861–76. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Brosnan, Kathleen A. Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change Along the Front Range. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Lamar, Howard R. The Far Southwest, 1846–1912: A Territorial History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Wyckoff, William. Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860–1940. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Neighborhoods Ballast, David K. Denver’s Civic Center: A Walking Tour. Denver: City Publishing, 1977.

Etter, Don D. Auraria: Where Denver Began. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1972.

Etter, Don D. Denver University Park: Four Walking Tours, 1886–1910. Denver: Graphic Impressions, 1974.

Etter, Don D. The Denver Park and Parkway System. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1986.

Goodstein, Phil H. The Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill. Denver: New Social Publications, 1996.

Goodstein, Phil H. The History of South Denver. Denver: New Social Publications, 2008.

Goodstein, Phil H. Robert Speer’s Denver, 1904–1920: The Mile High City in the Progressive Era. Denver: New Social Publications, 2003.

Iverson, Kristen. Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth. Boulder: Johnson Books, 1999.

Johnson, Charles. Denver’s Mayor Speer. Denver: Green Mountain Press, 1969.

Morley, Judy Mattivi, Historic Preservation and the Imagined West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Noel, Thomas J. Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts: A Pictorial Guide. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1996.

Noel, Thomas J. Denver’s Larimer Street, Main Street, Skid Row, and Urban Renaissance. Denver: Historic Denver, Inc., 1981.

Noel, Thomas J. and Barbara S. Norgren. Denver, the City Beautiful, and its Architects, 1893–1941. Denver: Historic Denver, Inc., 1981.

Noel, Thomas J. Richthofen’s Montclair: A Pioneer Denver Suburb. Denver: Graphic Impressions, 1976.

Walker, Elizabeth Owen. Cast in Stone: The Molly Brown House Revealed. Denver: Historic Denver, Inc., 2001.

West, William A. and Don D. Etter. Curtis Park: A Denver Neighborhood. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1980.

Wiberg, Ruth E. Rediscovering Northwest Denver. Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1978.

Leisure Carlin, Lee Jacobs. “Sweet Magic: 100 Years of Baur’s Restaurant.” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2002): 15–29.

Faulkner, Debra. Mary Elitch Long: First Lady of Fun. Palmer Lake: Filter Press, 2008

Foster, Mark S. The Denver Bears: From Sandlots to Sellouts. Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1983.

Foster, Mark S. “Mile High Greenfields: Denver’s Notable Ballparks.” Colorado Heritage (Spring 1995): 35–43.

Fraker, Patrick. “A Long Time Coming: Colorado’s Rockies and Avalanche.” Colorado Heritage (Winter 2000): 13–22.

Goodstein, Phil H. The Seamy Side of Denver: Tall Tales of the Mile High City. Denver: New Social Publications, 1993.

Kreck, Richard A. “‘The Napa Valley of Beer:’ Colorado’s Brewpub Phenomenon.” Colorado Heritage (Winter 2000): 38–41.

Noel, Thomas J. The City and the Saloon: Denver 1858–1916. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982; Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1996.

Noel, Thomas J. The Denver Athletic Club, 1884–1984. Denver: The Denver Athletic Club, 1983.

Noel, Thomas J. Riding High: Colorado Ranchers and 100 Years of the National Western Stock Show. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2005.

Noel, Thomas J. Sacred Stones: Colorado’s Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. Denver: Denver’s Theatres and Arenas, 2004.

Noel, Thomas J. and Amy Zimmer. Showtime: Denver’s Performing Arts, Convention Centers, and Theater Districts. Denver: City of Denver Division of Theatres and Arenas, 2008.

Sanford, Jay. “African American Baseballists and the Denver Post Tournament.” Colorado Heritage (Spring 1995): 20–34.

Whiteside, James. “’It was a Terror to the Horses:’ Bicycling in Gilded-Age Denver.” Colorado Heritage (Spring 1991): 2–16.

Whiteside, James. Colorado: A Sports History. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999.

Economy Adams, Eugene, Lyle W. Dorsett, and Robert S. Pulcipher. The Pioneer Western Bank– First of Denver: 1860–1980. Denver: First Interstate Bank and the Colorado Historical Society, 1984.

Bean, Geraldine. Charles Boettcher: A Study in Pioneer Western Enterprise. Boulder: Westview Press, 1976.

Breck, Allen D. William Gray Evans, 1855–1924: Portrait of a Western Executive. Denver: University of Denver History Department, 1964.

Convery, William J. Pride of the Rockies: The Life of Colorado’s Premiere Irish American Philanthropist, John Kernan Mullen. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000.

Downing, Sybil and Robert E. Smith. Tom Patterson: Colorado Crusader for Change. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1995.

Fell, Jr., James E. Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Foster, Mark S. Henry M. Porter: Rocky Mountain Empire Builder. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991.

French, Emily. Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman. Edited by Janet Lecompte. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Hosokawa, Bill. Thunder in the Rockies: The Incredible Denver Post. New York: Morrow, 1976.

Perkin, Robert L. The First Hundred Years: An Informal History of Denver and the Rocky Mountain News. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.

Transportation Bird, Isabella. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. 1874; multiple reprints.

Forest, Kenton and Charles Albi. Denver’s Railroads: The Story of Union Station and the Railroads of Denver. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1981.

Long, Margaret. The Smoky Hill Trail: Following the Old Historic Trails on Modern Highways. Denver: W. H. Kistler Stationary, 1947.

Noel, Thomas J. “All Hail the Denver Pacific: Denver’s First Railroad.” The Colorado Magazine 50:2 (Spring 1973): 91–116.

Cultural Conflicts Berwanger, Eugene H. The West and Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Brink Carolyn. Class Acts: Stories from the Emily Griffith Opportunity School. Palmer Lake: Filter Press LLC, 2006.

Davis. James H. “Colorado Under the Klan,” The Colorado Magazine 42:2 (Spring 1965): 93–108

Devine, Edward T. The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920. Denver: Denver Commission of Religious Forces, 1921.

Faulkner, Debra. Touching Tomorrow: The Emily Griffith Story. Palmer Lake: Filter Press, LLC, 2005.

Goldberg, Robert Alan. Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Goodstein, Phil H. In the Shadow of the Klan: When the KKK Ruled Denver, 1920–1926. Denver: New Social Publications, 2006.

Gould, Richard. The Life and Times of Richard Castro: Bridging the Cultural Divide. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 2006.

Haywood, William D. Bill Haywood’s Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood. 1929; International Publishers, 1977.

Hosokawa, Bill. Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005.

Leonard, Stephen J. “Bloody August: The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920.” Colorado Heritage (Summer 1995): 18–31.

Marin, Christine. A Spokesman of the Mexican-American Movement: Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and the Fight for Chicano Liberation, 1966–1972. San Francisco: R&E Research Associates, 1977.

Noel, Thomas J. “William D. Haywood, ‘The Most Hated and Feared Figure in America.’” Colorado Heritage (Spring 1984): 2–12.

Reese, Joan. “Two Enemies to Fight” Colorado Heritage 1 (1990): 2–17.

Schwantes, Carlos. Coxey’s Army: An American Odyssey. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1994.

Singular, Stephen. Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.

Van Cise, Philip. Fighting the Underworld. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1936.

Wasinger, Holly. “From Five Points to Struggle Hill: The Race Line and Segregation in Denver.” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2005): 28–39.

Wei, William. “History and Memory, The Story of Denver’s Chinatown.” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2002): 2–16.

Wortman, Roy T. “Denver’s Anti-Chinese Riot, 1880,” The Colorado Magazine 42:4 (Fall 1965), pp. 275–291.

Zahller, Alisa. Italy in Colorado. Family Histories from Denver and Beyond. Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, 2008.

Zhu, Liping. A Chinaman’s Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Frontier. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997.