Bound by Steel and Stone

Bound by Steel and Stone
Author: J. Bradford Bowers
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1646421280

Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier. In it, J. Bradford Bowers weaves a tale of reinvention against the backdrop of the newly settled West, showing how the railway survived in one form or another for nearly fifty years, overcoming competition from other railroads, a limited revenue base, and even more limited capital financing. Offering the Colorado-Kansas Railway as an example of how shortline railroads helped to integrate the rural landscape with the larger urban and economic world, Bowers reveals the constant adaptations driven by changing economic forces and conditions. He puts the railway in context of the wider environmental and political landscapes, the growing quarrying and mining business, the expansion of agriculture and irrigation, Progressive-era political reforms, and land development. In the new frontier of enterprise in the early twentieth-century American West, the railroad highlights the successes and failures of the men inspired to pursue these new opportunities as well as the story of one woman who held these fragile industries together well into the second half of the twentieth century. Bound by Steel and Stone is an insightful addition to the history of industrialization and economic development in Colorado and the American West.

Morrison's Corporation Law Colorado (Classic Reprint)

Morrison's Corporation Law Colorado (Classic Reprint)
Author: Robert Stewart Morrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781331005193

Excerpt from Morrison's Corporation Law Colorado Since the publication of the Third Edition, Colonel Morrison departed this life in an accident on the Interurban between Boulder and Denver. The third edition being exhausted, the demand makes it necessary to bring out this new edition; and the undersigned undertook the work of preparing the new edition, thinking that the original style and character of the work of the late Colonel Morrison could in this way be best retained and maintained. All new Legislative Enactments have been added or substituted and the Colorado Decisions affecting corporations cited and quoted therefrom. A form for a Declaration of Trust and Certificate of shares for a Common Law Corporation has been added, as well as a little preliminary matter. The object of the work is to supply the lawyers and others interested in corporations, the Statutory Law and the Judicial Decisions affecting same as well as all the Forms that will ordinarily be used. The Statutes reprinted and referred to are the sections of the new Mills Annotated Statutes. The work is submitted to the Bench, Bar and Others with the hope that it will be found a complete commentary on the Corporation Law of the State of Colorado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.