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Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880's, Nellie Buchanan said, "I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West." Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as "the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen." Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first

Oral history --- Interviews --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Women pioneers --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Conversation --- Interviewing --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Pioneers --- Methodology --- Colorado --- Coloradu --- Coloratum --- Dibé Nitsaa Hahoodzo --- Estado de Colorado --- Kalarada --- Keluoladuo --- Keluoladuo Zhou --- Khô-lò-là-tô --- Kolarad --- Kololako --- Koloradas --- Koloradio --- Kolorado --- Kolorads --- Koloranto --- Kororado --- Kororado-shū --- Kūlūrādū --- Medinat Ḳolorado --- Politeia tou Koloranto --- Shtat Kalarada --- State of Colorado --- Πολιτεία του Κολοράντο --- Κολοράντο --- Штат Каларада --- Каларада --- Коларад --- Колорадо --- קאלאראדא --- קולורדו --- מדינת קולורדו --- كولورادو --- コロラド --- コロラド州 --- 科羅拉多 --- 科羅拉多州 --- Colorado Territory --- Social life and customs