On Colfax Avenue by Elizabeth Young
"Everyone was moving to Denver, which was mushrooming all over the prairie and giving every evidence of becoming a metropolis of real proportion" - so recalls Elizabeth Young of her childhood on Colfax Avenue. Her youth ran parallel to that of her hometown: she grew up in the 1890s in the midst of Denver's rapid metamorphosis from frontier town to modern city. Young's memoir provides vivid glimpses of the people and events of this heady era, along with the adventuresome spirit that animated them. On Colfax Avenue captures the sense of joyful self-discovery that comes with childhood - both the author's and Denver's.
Elizabeth Young is a new Canadian author who got the idea for her first children's book while sewing quilts and duvet coverings for her grandchildren. It wasn't enough for her to give the children quilts for Christmas; she made them even more wonderful by including a narrative that would captivate their imaginations while also encouraging the gift of reading and writing in their young minds. Elizabeth has been writing unpublished poems and short tales since she was 15, and she intends to have more of her work published in the future.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780942576443 |
| ISBN 10 | 0942576446 |
| Title | On Colfax Avenue |
| Author | Elizabeth Young |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Colorado Historical Society,U.S. |
| Year published | 2004-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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