Colorado Place Names

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1001 Colorado Place Names
By Maxine Benson
In 1001 Colorado Place Names, Maxine Benson scrutinizes the most popular, interesting , and unique place names in the state. She discusses how the chosen names originated and what changes they have undergone.
A Compendium of Curious Colorado Place Names
By Jim Flynn
Carrière then went back to Colorado but couldn't locate the place where he had found the deposit. Ralston's discovery took place fifteen years later, in June 1850, at a creek in central Colorado now named Ralston Creek.
Arizona Place Names
By Will Croft Barnes, Byrd H. Granger
Will Croft Barnes (1858-1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. From 1905 to 1935, his travels throughout the...
A Place Called Peculiar: Stories about Unusual American Place-Names
By Frank K. Gallant
named for the copper mine in nearby Butte, which, in turn, was named by a man who had read a Civil War account that described Grant's army encircling Lee's like a giant anaconda. The town was first called Copperopolis.
Place Names in Colorado
By Golden Bell Press
Place Names in Colorado
Yellowstone Place Names: Mirrors of History
By Aubrey L. Haines
Until the late nineteenth century, Yellowstone National Park, known for such famous landmarks as Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the Firehole River, was a land largely unknown, uninhabited, and...