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5) Plainsong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Set in Denver, the separate lives of a school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelors become one small community.
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"Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing...
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Leaflet. Museum) volume no. 12
Pub. Date
1955
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Includes index and appendix
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H.A.W. Tabor and his bride Augusta left New England for Kansas and then to the Colorado Mountains to pursue wealth. They were a part of Denver's early history. Tabor became very wealthy and became lieutenant governor , U.S. Senator, politician, capitalist, parton of the arts, and an empire builder on a grand scale. He divorced Augusta and married a divorcee of the mining camps Baby Doe. He died a pauper. Three women shared his struggles, Augusta,...
13) Prayers for sale
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It's 1936 and the Great Depression has taken its toll. Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in Middle Swan, Colorado, up in the high country of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, since before it was Colorado. When she first meets seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, Hennie is drawn to the young grieving girl. Nit and her husband have come to this small mining town in search of work, but the loneliness and loss Nit feels are almost too much to bear....
18) Colorado
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A literary & historical tour across the state of Colorado. Covers area ski resorts, bed and breakfast, restaurants, tips on hunting, fishing and hiking. Also includeed is detailed information on Colorado's historic railrodads & Digging for dinosaur bones on the Western Slope, with beautiful color photos.