Denver, Colorado/Bibliography

• Barth, Gunther Paul. Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver (1975) excerpt and text search
• Brosnan, Kathleen A. Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range (2002) says Denver modernized by laying waste to the environment in late 19th century
• Brundage, David. The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 (1994) excerpt and text search
• Dorsett, Lyle. The Queen City: A History of Denver (1983), a standard history
• Goodstein,. Phil H. Denver in our time: A people's history of the modern Mile High City (1999)
• Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. 2004. 297 pp.; Denver is one of three case studies
• Hero, Rodney. "The Election of Hispanics in City Government: An Analysis of the Election of Federico Peña as Mayor of Denver," Western Political Quarterly 40 (March 1987): 93–105;
• Hero, Rodney. and Kathleen Beatty. "The Election of Frederico Peña as Mayor of Denver: Analysis and Implications," Social Science Quarterly 70 (June 1989): 300–310.
• Leonard, Stephen J. and Thomas J. Noel. Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis (1990), the standard history
• Morley, Judy Mattivi. Historic Preservation and the Imagined West: Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle. 2006. 204 pp.
• Noel, Thomas J. The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916 (1996) excerpt and text search
• Noel, Thomas J. Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857-1989 (1990) full text online
• Noel, Thomas J. Denver Landmarks & Historic Districts: A Pictorial Guide (2001)
• Noel, Thomas J. Mile high city: An illustrated history of Denver (2001)
• Noel, Thomas J. and Barbara S. Norgren. Denver: The City Beautiful and Its Architects, 1893-1941 (1987)
• Peterson, Eric ed. Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs (2007) excerpt and text search
• Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado (1898), many short biographies full text online