Del Norte Public Library

Presents a history of paper and the unexpected ways it shaped a modern world transitioning toward digital technologies, tracing the role of paper and papermaking in education, media, religion, commerce, and art.

A wonderful field for the novelist : Hamlin Garland's forgotten tour of Colorado / Virgil Mathes and Gary Scharnhorst -- 'Lectric fluid at the tips of his fingers : Lee J. Kelim and the Loveland Light, Heat, & Power Company / Adam Thomas -- "Save your rags!" : paper-making comes to the Rocky Mountains / Ginny Kilander -- Monuments of permanent achievement : the WPA buildings of Southeastern Colorado / Jacqui Ainley-Conley.

Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands

Provides a variety of facts about United States paper money, including information about the people and objects that appear on the money.

"Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence...

"A turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries"--Cover flap.

Describes how technological advances in China and the Arab world during the medieval period helped make up for the lack of scientific discovery that took place in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and explores how the Renaissance became a great period of European learning and discovery.