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By Lee Scamehorn

Lee Scamehorn is professor emeritus of background on the college of Colorado, Boulder. A veteran of global conflict II and the Korean clash, he earned an undergraduate measure at Western Michigan college, and graduate levels on the collage of Illinois, Urbana, and then he taught at Boulder. he's the writer of numerous books, together with Pioneer Steelmaker within the West: The Colorado gasoline and Iron corporation, 1872-1903 (1976), Mill & Mine: The CF&I within the 20th Century (1992), Albert Eugene Reynolds: Colorado's Mining King (1995), excessive Altitude strength: The heritage of Fossil Fuels in Colorado (2002), and Colorado's Small city business Revolution: advertisement Canning and conserving in Northeastern Colorado (2011).

Colorado's Small city commercial Revolution is a examine in 3 components. half one traced the beginning, evolution, and loss of life of business nutrition canning and conserving in northeastern Colorado. This quantity, components and 3, examines, respectively, an analogous subject within the decrease Arkansas Valley, from Canon urban to Holly, and the western slope, with emphasis on Delta and Mesa Counties. The had its beginning as a method of using fruit that was once too ripe to send to neighborhood and nearby markets. Evaporators have been followed to dehydrate fruit for destiny intake, and a hot-pack approach conserving fruit for a similar objective. Dehydrators, as well as canneries, have been well known at the western slope, yet weren't hired within the Arkansas Valley.

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