Books written by Duane A. Smith
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Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition
Alva Adams, 1897–1899 ♢ Charles S. Thomas, 1899–1901 ♢ James B. Orman, 1901–1903 ♢ James H. Peabody, 1903–1905 ♢ Alva Adams, 1905 ♢ Jesse F. McDonald, 1905–1907 ♢ Henry A. Buchtel, 1907–1909 ♢ John F. Shafroth, 1909–1913 ♢ Elias ...
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Colorado Goes to the Fair: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
In this heavily illustrated text, the authors trace the glory of the Worlds Fair and the impact it would have on Colorado, where Gilded Age excess clashed with the enthusiasm of westward expansion.
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They Came to Play: A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball
In They Came To Play: A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball, historians and avid baseball fans Duane Smith and Mark Foster have collected the finest historic baseball photographs of teams, players, and games from around the state.
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Pioneers & Politicians: Colorado Governors in Profile
Grand Dragon of the state organization, the dynamic, resourceful Dr. John Galen Locke, emerged as a force to be ... As a young man, Ben Poxson, Governor Billy Adams's secretary, vividly remembered his meeting with the Grand Dragon: I ...
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A Colorado History, 10th Edition
General William J. Palmer had supervised the construction of the Kansas Pacific line; he had also been a director of the Denver Pacific. He now began organizing a new road—the Denver and Rio Grande—designed to reach south to El Paso, ...
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Mesa Verde National Park
The greater story of the evolution of the park encompasses the Ute people, Theodore Roosevelt, novelist Willa Cather, and other personalities.
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Rocky Mountain Heartland: Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in the Twentieth Century
This is a lively history of three Rocky Mountain states in the twentieth century.
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San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining Legacy
John Ninnemann's photographs illustrate the text and include the natural, and sometimes harsh, beauty of the area, narrow-gauge railroads, and mountain trails.
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
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The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush.
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Here and Gone: Colorado's Industrial Past
On the brink of statehood, Colorado stood ready to harness its natural resources and join the industrial revolution.
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Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend
The first biography to give full attention to Tabor's mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades, this is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary that even in his own lifetime the ...
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Durango Diary II: 1890s-1945
Durango Diary II is the story of Durango, Colorado from its very early years through World War II. Duane Smith's eye for detail brings the eras to life, from the Silver Panic of 1893 to the post-war boom of the 1940s.
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Seasons of the Narrow Gauge: A Year in the Life of the Durango & Silverton
"Though the mining boom has passed, the railroad endures. riders board the train filled with a sense of adventure and excitement much like their predecesoors first did 129 years ago..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980
Mining America is a vivid account of the damage wrought by almost two centuries of mining, but its main focus is on the conflicting attitudes behind the destruction and on society's responses.
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Crested Butte: From Coal Camp to Ski Town
Crested Butte is the story of poor immigrants, labor strife, dirty and extremely dangerous coal mining, the D&RG Railroad, and two rich and greedy companies called the Durango Trust and Colorado Fuel and Iron.
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Colorado: Our Colorful State
This book is designed to be more like a book of stories than a textbook. Therefore, we have foregone the tradition of placing questions and activity suggestions with the text itself.
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A Brief History of Silverton
Duane Smith had done a marvelous job of explaining the historic nature of the local mining, which can still be enjoyed in the form of mine and mill tours, trips to the local museums, or exploring ruins in the nearby high country.
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Silverton: A Quick History
He devotes whole chapters to baseball at 9,000 feet, the deadly influenza epidemic, and Silverton during World War II. As Duane puts it, Savor and learn, for the past has much to tell us.
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Rich Heritage. Shining Future: Fort Lewis College 1911-2011
After the opening chapter on thepre-1911 history, the following chapters cover specific chronological periods including photographs. The book concludes with a photographic essay of current life at Fort Lewis College.