Sybil Downing
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A novel on the Colorado coal strike early this century and its brutal suppression by the Colorado militia. The events are portrayed through the eyes of a woman lawyer defending a miner accused of inciting a riot. The strike led to the Ludlow Massacre in which some 20 men, women and children were killed by the militia.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The year is 1918. The issue is American women's right to vote. Kate Brennan, a sheltered, upper-class college graduate, is arrested when she goes to the aid of suffragists being attacked in front of the White House during a peaceful rally. Galvanized by her fourteen-day sentence in the Occoquan workhouse, she becomes a passionate supporter of the National Woman's Party. Kate learns how to survive the dangerous world of hardball politics from Alice...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"Out of the ashes of disillusionment following World War I, the Ku Klux Klan rose to new heights, its four million members spreading racial and religious hatred across the nation. Outside of the South, Colorado was one of the Klan's strongest enclaves." "On a hot June day in 1922, the Grand Dragon of Colorado's Ku Klux Klan holds a press conference in Denver's most elegant hotel, announcing that the Klan intends to recall the popular district attorney...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Sybil Downing's Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange follows the success of the first two Women of the West novels, a groundbreaking series that explores the actual lives of women who opened the frontiers of the American West. This captivating new novel unfolds the drama behind a little-known but historic event that begins when three women set up their own stock exchange, choosing to defy tradition in order to assert their claim to wealth and independence....
Author
Series
Colorado heritage volume 3
Description
Four brief stories depict experiences of trappers and fur traders in Colorado duing the first half of the nineteenth century.
14) Wagons and Rails
Author
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Four stories illustrate the use of wagon trains and railroads in Colorado from the late 19th century through the early 20th century.
16) Building up
Author
Pub. Date
c1979
Description
Four brief stories depict life in Colorado at the beginning of the twentieth century.