Colorado Museums And Historic Sites

From the Denver Art Museum to the Colorado Alligator Farm to the Ludlow Massacre Site, this exhaustive guidebook covers every Colorado museum and virtually every historic site, including ghost towns, historic buildings, monuments, visitor centres, aquariums, art galleries, botanical gardens, and historic districts. Representing famous and unusual sites from not just the big cities, but across the entire state, this complete guidebook contains something for both the tourist and the long time Coloradan. Victor J Danilov gives up-to-date information on each place of interest, providing addresses, fax and phone numbers, e-mail and web site addresses, hours, and admission costs. City guides as well as category listings make it easy for readers to find the information they are looking for. Danilov also provides historical information on each site unknown even to many of the state's residents. With Colorado Museums and Historic Sites in hand, there is no excuse for failing to experience all the diverse cultural and historical destinations Colorado has to offer.

Part of the Colorado Traveler Guidebooks series.

Since 1991, the Colorado Historical Society has supported the restoration of the state's most significant sites through the State Historical Fund. Thanks to the SHF, more than 600 building, sites, and districts all over the state have been restored and preserved for gernerations to come. Complete with the stories behind the sites and their restoration, this comprehensive guidebook takes you to Colorado's most historic locations and chronicles the efforts to save them.

Locations including missions, trading posts, trails, landmarks, military forts, battlefields, railroads, ghost towns, and early Native American villages are featured here, along with details of what exhibits and artifacts are on view.".

This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” (The New York Times Book Review). Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. Author Candacy A. Taylor shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020