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Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis
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Denver: Mining Camp to MetropolisDenver: Mining Camp to Metropolis

This lively best seller by leading Colorado historians Steve Leonard and Tom Noel is the most comprehensive survey ever written of the Mile High metropolis. Informative and richly illustrated, Denver covers the developing region from the mountain towns of Boulder and Jefferson counties to the High Plains settlements of Adams and Arapahoe counties, with more than two-thirds of the book devoted to the burgeoning five-county region since 1900.
 
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Tags: counties, Denver, region, Plains, settlements, Mining, Metropolis
Rocky Mountain Cook Book - For High Altitude Cooking
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Rocky Mountain Cook Book - For High Altitude CookingRocky Mountain Cook Book - For High Altitude Cooking

Knowing the difficulty of cooking in a high altitude the author, in this book, has endeavored to give the public the benefit obtained from teaching and housekeeping in Denver, making high altitude cooking a special study. Water boils at sea level at 212°. In Denver, where the air is much lighter,it boils at 202°. Therefore, it does not reach as great a heat and boiling requires a longer time. It has been the wish to make the recipes practical and easily followed by the most inexperienced cooks. She has not attempted giving much information on chemistry and food values, leaving that for the cooking schools. No girl's education is complete without such a course.
 
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Tags: cooking, Denver, boils, altitude, giving, Rocky