Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

ix aCknowledgments Teachers and students from all over Colorado helped us with this book. Among others, we especially thank Chuck Woodward and Art Cordova of Gateway High School in Aurora, David Smith of Samuels School in Denver, Nancy Gregory and Ray Jenkins of Aurora’s Hinkley High School, Jerry Fabyanic and Pat Heist Ward of Aurora Hills Middle School, Dan Barber of Sinclair Middle School in Englewood, and Andy Aiken of Boulder High School. Brent Brown, Lynn Brown, Michael Breunig, Aaron Bell, Doug Katie, Julie Potter, Kelly Hester, Elizabeth Watts, and Ward Lee of Smiley, Escalante, and Miller Middle Schools in Durango helped, as did Colorado history students Leslie Burger, Mike Ferguson, and Laralee Smith. University of Colorado Denver graduate students Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Kathleen Barlow, Dana EchoHawk, Rosemary Fetter, Marcia Goldstein, Katie Hartenbach, Abby Hoffman, Judy Morley, Rebecca Gonzales Ponicsan, and Nick Wharton improved this book in many ways. Thanks to Professor Richard E. Stevens of the University of Colorado Denver Geography Department, who drew many of the maps. Many of these maps first appeared in the Historical Atlas of Colorado and are reprinted courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Press. Special thanks to Governors Richard Lamm, Roy Romer, Bill Owens, Bill Ritter, and John Hickenlooper for their interest. In interviews, they made excellent suggestions about what should be passed on to Colorado history classes. x a C k n o w l e d g m e n t s We, like many other fans of Colorado history, found especially helpful the resources in both the Western History Department of the Denver Public Library and History Colorado, as the Colorado Historical Society renamed itself in 2009. Between them, these Denver gold mines have a million illustrations of Colorado. For other photos, as well as printed and primary source research material, we are indebted to Colorado College and the Pioneer Museum in Colorado Springs, the Pueblo District Library, the Museum of Western Colorado in Grand Junction, and the Southwest Studies Center at Fort Lewis College in Durango. To these institutions and their staffs, as well as many other museums and libraries in Colorado’s sixty-four counties, our hats are off in gratitude. The authors thank the crackerjack staff at the University Press of Colorado: Cheryl Carnahan, Jessica d’Arbonne, Laura Furney, Darrin Pratt, Beth Svinarich, and Daniel Pratt. History Colorado’s staff proved most helpful , especially Education Director J. J. Rutherford and State Historian William J. Convery. In addition, Kathleen Barlow and Abby Hoffman reviewed the entire text and helped rewrite it to take advantage of the 2010 revised Colorado state standards for middle and high school texts. Both authors and the University Press of Colorado welcome suggestions from students, teachers, and other interested readers about how we can make this a better and more useful book. ...