Colorful Coloradans Biographies

Biographies of important Coloradans featuring digitized sources from the Western History collection to provide young researchers with high quality, primary source material for their history projects. Ideal for 4th grade and up.

Belle Turnbull (1881-1970)

Poet, known for her poetry on the Colorado Mining Age and on the landscape of Colorado.

Studio portrait of Davis Hanson Waite, Governor of Colorado and Populist Party member in probably Denver, Colorado. Davis Waite has a beard and moustache and wears a dark suit, bow tie, and oval shaped wire spectacles.

Davis Hanson Waite (1825-1901)

A populist governor of the state of Colorado.

Muriel Sibell Wolle (1898 - 1977)

Muriel Sibell Wolle was an artist and author who documented the history of Colorado ghost towns.