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Hall of Fame - A Gallery of the Rich & Famous (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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Hall of Fame - A Gallery of the Rich & Famous (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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Human beings inhabited Colorado for the past 12,000 years. The
earliest people migrated across the land bridge between Asia and
Alaska and made their way down the eastern side of the Rockies into
Colorado. Some of the earliest people were hunters who herded
mammoths over the edge of cliffs, pelting them with rocks and
spears. Clovis man lived near Greeley as early as 9200 B.C. Flosom
Man (distinguished from Clovis Man by the type of spearheads he
crafted) hunted bison in eastern Colorado. By 7000 B.C., the desert
people inhabited western Colorado, surviving on small game, berries
and plants. Over thousands of years, the desert People evolved into
the Basket Makers, whose culture was centered around the beautiful
baskets they created for cooking, hauling water, carrying babies,
and many other functions. Their descendants were the Indians of
Mesa Verde the Anasazi who created the intriguing civilization
today preserved in Mesa Verde National Park. At the end of the
Basket Makers period in the southwest, Fremont Man inhabited the
northern/central portions of western Colorado. Near Grand Junction,
you can see petroglyphs scratched into the rock by these early
people. Following the disappearance of the Cliff Dwellers from Mesa
Verde in 1300 A.D., Spanish explorers began working their way north
from Mexico, among them Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who may have
entered what is today Colorado on his exploration to the Seven
Cities of Gold in 1540. The Ute Indians inhabited the western and
mountain sections of Colorado; by 1800, the Arapaho and Cheyenne
Indians were moving into the eastern plains, soon to be driven out
by the white man in his pursuit of Manifest Destiny. In preparing
this selection of Colorado profiles, we are most grateful to Maxine
Benson, former Colorado State Historian, for her critical
evaluation of the historical data. A Colorado History, which she
co-authored with Carl Ubbelohde and Duane Smith, is an excellent
survey of the states past. For additional reading, there are full
biographies of nearly all the people presented in the following
vignettes.
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