Lost Lafayette, Colorado

Lost Lafayette, Colorado
Doug Conarroe
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 160pg
1 Feb 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781467148238
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The gold rush of the 1850s turned Colorado' s treeless prairie into platted towns with thriving centers of commerce. Lafayette' s early Main Street on East Simpson Street was once bustling with blacksmiths, jewelers, retailers and grocers. It included the Lafayette Bank, the Goodhue Building and a movie theater. The epicenter of organized labor' s struggle for fair wages and a safe workplace, Lafayette expanded to include Japanese and Latino laborers in the 1920s. For fifteen years, the Ku Klux Klan dominated local politics, spreading fear and hate. From 1888 until 1956, the coal mining industry sustained the town. But dangerous work conditions in the fourteen coal mines took a toll. Flour mills, brick factories and electrical generating stations faded quickly. Author Doug Conarroe recounts inspiring tales of a diverse, austere and doggedly self-sufficient townspeople who challenged the status quo and survived trying and tumultuous times.
Doug Conarroe is a fourth-generation Coloradan who grew up in Louisville and moved to Lafayette in 1995. With a journalism degree and MBA from the University of Colorado, Doug started with the family newspaper before joining the Denver Post and then the (Tacoma) News Tribune. He published the North Forty News from 2011 to 2017. A lifetime member of Lafayette Historical Society, Doug has served on the Lafayette Historic Preservation Board and as past president and board member of Historic Boulder.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781467148238
Published: 1 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: History Press
Publisher: History Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 18g
Pages: 160

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