Two dominant trends characterize the ranching enterprise in the Mountain West during the twentieth century: the long-term continuity of ranching practices, families, and cultural habits on the one hand, and the volatility of the powerful structures that shape ranching, including economics, the environment, and political and social dynamics, on the...
Based primarily on the Edward P. Costigan Papers in the University of Colorado's Norlin Library and on government documents, this study traces a progressive's career on the United States Tariff Commission. Costigan's early political experience is briefly examined to reveal the forces which caused him to enter reform politics. A...
Emperor Frederick III has been traditionally portrayed as the incompetent ruler who was responsible for the widespread disorder in fifteenth century religion and politics. Such a concept was the result of limiting historical investigation to the political aspects of his reign, a field entirely unsuited to Frederick's disposition and temperament....
Unlike most of his predecessors and successors, Theodore Roosevelt long outlived his Presidential years. Because of his unusual physical and mental vigorousness, he could not resign himself to the customary secreted existence of American ex—Presidents. Instead, he maintained a very active interest in politics and national affairs, and his atypical...
In situ perfusion of human midtrimester placentas with labled pregnenolone and 17α-hydroxypregnenolone was carried out. Following perfusion with pregnenolone, the bulk of the radioactive material recovered from the placenta, and approximately one-fourth of that recovered from the venous effluent, was progesterone. Perfusion with 17α-hydroxypregnenolone resulted in a similar conversion to...
A detailed investigation was made of the geology and petrology of Poorman Mine and adjacent area. The region is about five miles west of Boulder, Colorado, along the road to Gold Hill. It is underlain by Boulder Creek granitegneiss cut by two well known 'dikes', named Poorman and Maxwell, which...
Literary portraits, as the basic mode of character development in the seventeenth century, constitute a fundamental element of early French fiction. I trace the reverberations of the popular detached portrait in aesthetic and ideological realms, a study that reveals its important functions beyond its role as a salon game. I...
Robert Frost's life was dominated by two strong beliefs: first, that he had been granted the gift of "intuitive wisdom," which he recognized in "flashes" on several occasions during his life; second, that this gift imposed on him the duty of making his "gift outright" to his nation and the...
A detailed analysis of the dramatic structure used in The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters reveals the comedy of Chekhov's dramas which is often denied by directors and critics. A similar analysis of Paradise Lost and Awake and Sing! reveals a depth of perception in Odets' early dramas which...