colorado

Presents the history and accomplishments of the Colorado Avalanche hockey team including highlights of players, coaches, and awards, quotes, timeline, maps, glossary, and websites.

A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first settled in Colorado.

The author tells the story of her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff and Dorothy's friend Rosamond Underwood, two society girls in upstate New York, who left home in the summer of 1916 to take jobs as teachers in the tiny Colorado settlement of Elkhead, drawing from their letters home, interviews with descendants, research, and trips to the region to reconstruct their adventures and discuss their lasting influence on their young students and others they met.

Examine the criminal investigators who are on the frontline of the Columbine school shootings. Includes sidebars, bibliographies, full-color photographs, charts, graphs and index.

An orphaned Ute Indian boy wins stardom on the rodeo circuit but, disillusioned by his success, returns to the ways of his ancestors.

Contains excerpts from the journals of Rachel Scott, a teenager who was killed during a shooting at Columbine High School.

Thirteen-year-old Eva, left alone in the world after the death of her adoptive parents, goes to Denver, Colorado, in search of her birth mother in 1878, and is shocked to find the address is a house of ill repute, and her mother only too willing to put her to work.

In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby stay with Mrs. Fredrickson and nurse an injured horse back to health.

While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission.