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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Interviews discussing CDOT's response to the September 2013 flood that damaged roads and bridges from mountain canyons to the eastern plains. Besides monitoring the damage to roads and bridges CDOT played a role in evacuating 18,000 people. The governor challenged CDOT to get the roads and bridges sufficiently repaired by December 2013 to allow safe travel. CDOT met the challenge and immediately began planning permanently rebuilt roads to handle a...
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company began with the utopian vision of a Civil War general and grew to become the largest steel mill in the West. By the turn of the 20th Century, it was the largest private landowner and employer in Colorado. Its mines and mill provided steel products critical for the growth of key western industries. A melting pot of ethnic workers kept the machines humming, as CF&I played a pivotal role in the tumultuous history of American...