Frontier Pathways
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
El Pueblo
The Promise of Paradise
A Legacy Carved in Stone
A Country Home of Their Own
Exploring on Your Own
Further Down the Road
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
The American Dream
Life on the Kennicott Ranch
What Did They Leave Behind?
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
Frontier Pathways Timeline
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide


Frontier Pathways

References

The American Dream
Allen, Walter Ernest.
The Urgent West: The American Dream and Modern Man.
New York, Dutton, 1969

Burstein, Andrew.
Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

Long, Elizabeth.
The American Dream and the Popular Novel.
Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

Perret, Geoffrey.
A Dream of Greatness: The American People, 1945-1963.
New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979.

Samuelson, Robert J.
The Good Life and its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement.
New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Schaller, Barry R.
A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.

Life on the Kennicott Ranch
Clark Secrest, editor
“Learn to Labor and to Wait.”
Colorado Heritage. Summer 1999.

What Did They Leave Behind?
Coan, Peter M.
Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words.
New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Granfield, Linda.
197 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2001.

Riis, Jacob A.
The Battle with the Slum.
New York, London: Macmillan, 1902.
HIGHLIGHTS

Ute scouting party
Ute scouts, 1899
Courtesy, Denver Public Library, Western History Department, Photo by Horace Poley

Native Americans live and hunt in the mountains and on the prairies.


Wheel from wagon train
Wagon wheel
Great Divide Pictures LLC

In the 1860s, the dream of owning land beckons people west.


Train leaving Union Station
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Union Station
Courtesy, Pueblo City-County Library District

Railroads such as the Denver & Rio Grande bring new industries and workers to Pueblo.
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