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The Rocky Mountain News calls the book an “absorbing history of the town” and Western Historical Quarterly comments that “the book is stuffed with beautiful photographs and contains fascinating sidebars on subjects such as mining technology and working-class culture. It is both sophisticated and fun to read." The Rise of the Silver Queen was noted historian Liston Leyendecker’s last work, completed by Christine Bradley and Duane Smith.

03.01.2007
White Man’s Paper Trail has finalized for a 2007 Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

Congratulations to author Stan Hoig! The awards will be presented at the 18th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards dinner March 10, 2007 at Oklahoma City’s Petroleum Club. In White Man’s Paper Trail, award-winning journalist and author Stan Hoig presents a poignant history of the U.S. government’s attempts to peacefully negotiate treaties with the tribes of the Central Plains, from the friendship pacts of the early 1800s through the last formal treaty in 1871, when Congress put an end to treaty-making. He shows how treaty-making, negotiated by peace commissioners and once the most promising method for resolving conflicts without military involvement, degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises. True West comments that “any serious researcher will gain invaluable insight from Hoig’s excellent treatment of the subject" and the Oklahoman calls it “required reading for Americans who have an interest in American and Indian relations."

02.06.2007
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums is the recipient of a Southwest Book Award for 2006 from the Border Regional Library Association.

Since 1971 the Southwest Book Awards have been presented annually in recognition of outstanding books that reflect and interpret the Southwest. Congratulations to author Flint Whitlock! Distant Bugles, Distant Drums tells the little-known story of the Civil War’s western battles, bringing to life the epic march of 1,000 men recruited from Colorado’s towns, farms, and mining camps to fight 3,000 Confederate soldiers in New Mexico. Whitlock draws on previously overlooked diaries, letters, and contemporary newspaper accounts to create fascinating portraits of the Union and Confederate leaders, the land they marched through, and the series of battles they fought. The fortunes of the Confederacy hinged on its ability to capture Colorado’s gold and silver mines—Whitlock reveals how close the Texan soldiers came to succeeding, and how the hastily-assembled Union men, many trying soldiering on for the first time, barely turned them back.

11.04.2005
The Wildlife Society recognizes Prairie Ghost and Pronghorn with Outstanding Book and Editorship awards for 2005, respectively.

Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America, a lavishly illustrated companion volume to Pronghorn: Ecology and Management, explores the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

More information about the Wildlife Management Institute is available at http://www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/pages/main.html. The Wildlife Society’s online home is http://www.wildlife.org.

07.28.2005
University Press of Colorado Mesoamerican Worlds series editor awarded high honor by the Mexican government.

The Ambassador of Mexico, Carlos de Icaza, decorated Davíd Carrasco with the greatest honor the Mexican government awards a foreigner, the Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca (Order of the Aztec Eagle) at a December 2004 ceremony in Washington, D.C.. Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School, edits the University Press of Colorado’s Mesoamerican Worlds Series, which is devoted to the study of historical phenomena within particular traditions of Mesoamerica and in relation to other cultures. This series seeks to integrate the work of archaeology, archaeoastronomy, art history, history of religions, social thought, and urban studies.

University Press of Colorado publication wins the Clark Spence Award for Excellence in Mining History.

The Mining History Association (MHA) selected Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868–1914 as the 2004-2005 winner of the biannual Clark Spence Award for Excellence in Mining History.

The Clark Spence Award, sponsored by the MHA, celebrates the best books on mining history. The prize was announced at a reception and awards banquet at the Mining MHA’s conference this June in Mayfield, Pennsylvania. The award is named for Clark S. Spence, a prominent historian and founding member of the MHA.

In Industrializing the Rockies, historian and Black Hills State University professor David A. Wolff contextualizes the deadly conflicts that became defining moments in Western coalfield labor relations—the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and the Ludlow Massacre of 1914—tracing their roots in the economics of the coal industry. Wolff’s book is the first comprehensive study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and offers a general overview of coal mining in the American West from 1868 to the early twentieth century. The author shows how miners and laborers struggled to maintain mining as a craft and how market and economic forces influenced companies and deeply affect the lives of the workers.

The Mining History Association, based in Golden, Colorado at the Colorado School of Mines, brings together scholars, avocational enthusiasts, professors, active and retired mining professionals, geologists, and others interested in the history of mining and metallurgy.

We're thrilled to announce this award, and we give our heartfelt praise to David Wolff for the outstanding scholarship that makes Industrializing the Rockies an important contribution to the literature on mining history and to our publication series, Mining the American West.

01.04.2005
University Press of Colorado books win Colorado Book Awards and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award

The announcement of several prestigious awards topped off a banner year for the University Press of Colorado. Choice selected The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands as a 2004 Outstanding Academic Title, and Bats of the Rocky Mountain West and the new edition of Boomtown Blues won Colorado Book Awards.

Choice magazine selected its annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles from more than 6,000 books reviewed during 2004. The list, according to Choice, "reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community." In The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation, edited by Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, and Don S. Rice, an impressive roster of scholars revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology. The Classic Maya civilization apparently collapsed between A.D. 830 and 950, with the Maya abandoning their power centers in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceasing the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period. The Terminal Classic interprets data from recent archaeological fieldwork to show enormous regional variability in the ways the Maya experienced this transition, revealing a period of cultural change more complex than acknowledged by traditional models. Choice magazine's September review called The Terminal Classic a "landmark, detailed magnum opus [that] elucidates critical and complex issues and is essential to Mesoamerican scholars, providing a new baseline for Maya studies. . . Indispensable."

The annual Colorado Book Awards, sponsored by the Colorado Center for the Book, celebrate the best books written by Colorado authors. Finalists were celebrated and the winners announced at a gala at the Wings over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver. Bats of the Rocky Mountain West won in the guidebook category and Boomtown Blues tied with David Baron's The Beast in the Garden (Norton) in the Colorado and the West category.

In Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation, bat specialist Rick A. Adams describes bat biology and evolution and provides natural histories of 31 species of bats found in the Rocky Mountain West (MT, ID, WY, UT, CO, NM, and AZ). Rich with color photographs, maps, and beautiful illustrations by Wendy Smith, this book offers a unique, valuable reference and a readable introduction to these important, misunderstood mammals.

Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, by Andrew Gulliford and with a foreword by Richard D. Lamm, is part of our Mining the American West series. Gulliford examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's continual cycles of boom and bust.

The Colorado Center for the Book, a Library of Congress-chartered program of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, grants the Colorado Book Awards. The awards help build Colorado's reputation as a state whose citizens value, promote, and support reading, writing, and literacy.

We're thrilled to announce these awards, and we give our heartfelt praise to the authors and editors for their meticulous research, great writing, and contributions to their fields and to public knowledge.

11.02.2004
Finalists for 2003 Colorado Book Awards include three University Press of Colorado books

We're thrilled to announce that Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, Sites of Insight, and Boomtown Blues are finalists for the Colorado Book Awards, which celebrate the best books written by Colorado authors in 2003.

The finalists will be celebrated and the winners announced at a special event November 18, 2004 at the Wings over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver. For more information on the gala, visit www.coloradocenterforthebook.org, call the Colorado Center for the Book at (303) 839-8320, or e-mail ccftb@compuserve.com.

The Colorado Center for the Book, a Library of Congress-chartered program of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, grants the awards annually. The awards help build Colorado's reputation as a state whose citizens value, promote, and support reading, writing, and literacy.

In Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation, bat specialist Rick A. Adams describes bat biology and evolution and provides natural histories of 31 species of bats found in the Rocky Mountain West (MT, ID, WY, UT, CO, NM, and AZ). Rich with color photographs, maps, and beautiful illustrations by Wendy Smith, this book offers a unique, valuable reference and a readable introduction to these important, misunderstood mammals.

Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places, edited by James Lough and Christie Smith, includes eighteen illuminating essays by some of Colorado's most accomplished novelists, essayists, and poets. The essays offer a vivid journey through a rich assortment of Colorado's most inspiring landscapes, each telling of a place where the authors find inspiration, epiphany, and challenge.

Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, by Andrew Gulliford and with a foreword by Richard D. Lamm, is part of our Mining the American West series. Gulliford, Director of the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's continual cycles of boom and bust.

12.10.2003
2004 Named the Year of the University Press

Modern scholarly communication is a complex system with a simple purpose: to provide the means by which the human knowledge and insight of the past may be preserved and shared in order to nourish the development of new ideas in the future. The members of the Association of American University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries all play a role in this vital and dynamic system, and we are united in our dedication to its purpose.

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11.10.2003
FROM IMPERIAL MYTH TO DEMOCRACY CHOSEN AS AN OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE FOR 2003 BY CHOICE MAGAZINE

We are pleased to announce that From Imperial Myth To Democracy: Japan's Two Constitutions, 1889-2002 has been chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003. Choice Magazine , a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries awards the finest scholarly works through these annual awards. Outstanding Academic Titles are chosen for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, and the significance of their contribution to the field. Congratulations to co-authors Lawrence W. Beer and John M. Maki on their achievement.

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03.15.2003
Colcha wins American Book Award

The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term "multicultural" to be not a description of various categories, groups, or "special interests," but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers' award given by other writers. (The Before Columbus Foundation is an independent non-profit organization.)

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