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Colorado Day by Day

Derek Everett

University Press of Colorado, 2019

Copublished with History Colorado

Colorado Day by Day is an engaging, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures and forces that have shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present. Historian Derek R. Everett presents a vignette for each day of the calendar year, exploring Colorado’s many facets through distilled tales of people, places, events, and trends.

Entries incorporate tales from each of the state’s sixty-four counties and feature both well-known and obscure cultural moments, including events in Native American, African American, Asian American, Hispano, and women’s history. Allowing the reader to explore the state’s heritage as individual threads or as part of the greater tapestry, Colorado Day by Day recovers much lost history and will be an entertaining and useful source of lore for anyone who enjoys or is curious about Colorado history.
 
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Colorado State Capitol

History, Politics, Preservation

Derek Everett

University Press of Colorado, 2005

As the representative building of the state, the Capitol has served as a silent witness to the evolving needs and interests of all Colorado citizens. The statehouse provided a proud testament for nineteenth-century Coloradoans who wanted to prove their state's potential through grand architecture and it represents "the heart of Colorado" to this day.

In one comprehensive volume historian Derek Everett traces the establishment, planning, construction, and history of Colorado's state capitol - including a discussion on the importance of restoring and preserving the building for current and future generations of Coloradoans.

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Colorado

A History

Derek Everett

University Press of Colorado, 2026

From prehistoric seas to modern ski slopes, Colorado: A History explores the people, places, conflicts, environments, and ideas that have shaped the state—and the forces that continue to guide it today.

The choices that built Colorado brought both opportunity and devastating consequences. What looked like a triumph from one perspective often represented tragedy from another. Join Dr. Derek Everett on a sweeping journey through time, meeting the Natives and newcomers, the business owners and workers, and the communities and governments that transformed the landscape along the way. Drawing on the latest scholarship, Colorado: A History brings those competing stories together to reveal a state whose past is as complicated, surprising, and unfinished as its future.

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