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1) The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

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"In The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, Virginia McConnell Simmons provides a detailed and accurate account of this indigenous nation. Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians." "Simmons' story begins with the Utes' origins and their first contact with the Spanish, from whom they obtained horses, and...

2) The San Luis Valley: land of the six-armed cross

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3) Bayou Salado: the story of South Park

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4) The Pikes Peak Region Long Ago

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5) Bayou Salado: the story of South Park

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The story of South Park, Colorado

6) Drifting West: the calamities of James White and Charles Baker

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"During westward expansion in the nineteenth century, thousands of anonymous individuals drifted into the American West in search of opportunities in trapping and trading, prospecting and mining, military service, railroad construction, freighting, agriculture, town-building, and adventure. Few of these emigrants achieved sufficient notoriety for their names to be recalled today. Two exceptions are James White, who is said to have accidentally traversed...