Colorado
Subtitle: A History (States & the Nation)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780393301380
First sentence: THE state of Colorado, its rolling plains barricaded by the Continental Divide and a jumble of Rocky Mountains of matchless height, width, and majesty, began to take shape when Napoleon doubled the size of the infant United States by selling to it everything he owned west of the Mississippi at a price of four cents an acre.