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Learn an Endangered (or Extinct) Language in Western History and Genealogy
Submitted by Noel on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 5:49pmI feel an affinity for languages. To know more than one language is to be able to see the world in more than one way.
Wo/Men at Work: Exploring Hard Work's Reward
Submitted by Noel on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 12:53pmThis artfully designed, hand-bound book tells two stories of work during an era when what a person did or made was still considered more important than what he or she bought.
John Fante: The Colorado Author of Ask the Dust
Submitted by Noel on Thu, 11/08/2012 - 4:52pmIn the preface to the 1979 edition of John Fante’s novel, Ask The Dust, Cha
Dalton Trumbo - Born and Raised in Colorado
Submitted by Noel on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 10:56amDalton Trumbo was an Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote screenplays such as Papillon
Sanctus Sonorensis
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 2:17pmWhile on a sabbatical in New Mexico, book artist Philip
Manuscript Monday: Evelyn Runnette
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:41pmDenver native Evelyn Runnette was born in 1903. She was a librarian, outdoorswoman, traveler, and among many other things, an avid scrapbooker.

















