colorado

Discusses the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado, and what is known about the history, social life, and customs of the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in them.

Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake.

Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces.

Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son Scott, believing the young man had committed suicide, but when he arrives he begins to suspect Scott was murdered and he is driven by grief, anger, and love to try and understand his son's death.

Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.

A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first settled in Colorado.

Provides comprehensive information on the Columbine High School massacre and the examination of violence in schools.

Presents interviews with ten professional skateboarders in which they discuss the mental and emotional side of the sport, features sequential photographs of twenty-five intermediate and advanced tricks, and includes brief touring guides of Oregon and Colorado, and advice on how to build a skatepark.

In 1885, unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold.