Jolie Anderson Gallagher
1) A wild West history of frontier Colorado: pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the Gold Rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. The peaceful frontier quickly transformed into dangerous, lawless territory, where Coloradoans settled their own matters, usually with pistols.