colorado

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colorado

Gaslights and gingerbread

Colorado's historic homes
1984

If wishes were horses

the education of a veterinarian
1993
Loretta Gage's story of her struggle against hard work and self-doubt to become a practicing veterinarian.

Simple gifts

1987
The Fleuris are a poor family who live on a back-country ranch in Colorado. One day, a man from the government convinces them to turn their ranch into a place where visitors can sample ranch life as it was lived in the 1880s, which leads them from one well-intentioned misadventure to another.

Silver dollar girl

2002
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.

One more valley, one more hill

the story of Aunt Clara Brown
2002
Chronicles the life of the woman called Aunt Clara Brown, who was born into slavery and became a pioneer and entrepreneur, earning money to bring other former slaves to a new start in Colorado.

Whistler in the dark

2010
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

Whistler in the dark

2002
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

Dipper of Copper Creek

1996
Presents the intersecting stories of a boy's quest for independence during a stay with his grandfather in the Colorado Rockies and the maturation of a bird that lives in the waterfalls of a mountain stream.

Crazy Horse

2009
When Crazy Horse and Cadillac, two very different but inseparable horses, go missing from the Half Moon Ranch in Colorado, thirteen-year-old Kirstie tries to recover the stolen animals.

Aunt Clara Brown

official pioneer
1999
A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.

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