Sybil Downing

Four stories depict life in late 19th-century Colorado.

Four brief stories depict scientific concerns of early Colorado: the collecting of botanical specimens; the invention of a low-cost way to separate ores; the discovery of dinosaur bones; and the treatment of tuberculosis.

Four stories portray life in late 19th-century Colorado.

"Out of the ashes of disillusionment following World War I, the Ku Klux Klan rose to new heights, its four million members spreading racial and religious hatred across the nation. Outside of the South, Colorado was one of the Klan's strongest enclaves." "On a hot June day in 1922, the Grand Dragon of Colorado's Ku Klux Klan holds a press conference in Denver's most elegant hotel, announcing that the Klan intends to recall the popular district attorney...

Sybil Downing's Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange follows the success of the first two Women of the West novels, a groundbreaking series that explores the actual lives of women who opened the frontiers of the American West. This captivating new novel unfolds the drama behind a little-known but historic event that begins when three women set up their own stock exchange, choosing to defy tradition in order to assert their claim to wealth and independence....

Four brief stories depict experiences of trappers and fur traders in Colorado duing the first half of the nineteenth century.

Traces the life of the Colorado naturalist, Martha Maxwell.

Presents four stories from Colorado's history based on incidents involving Zebulon Pike, Lieutenant Fremont and Kit Carson, Fort Misery, and a stampede of buffalo.