Want to know something about Colorado? Ask Dr. Colorado, author and Colorado historian, Thomas J. Noel. With a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Colorado University – Boulder, Noel currently is a Professor of History at the University of Colorado – Denver (since 1978), where he directs their Public History and Preservation & Colorado Studies Program and co-directs UC – Denver‘s Center for Colorado & the West. The nickname Dr. Colorado came from his “Dr. Colorado” column in the Sunday Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News and his regular appearances on Denver KUSA Channel 9’s Colorado & Company. His vast knowledge of Colorado and its history is clearly apparent in picking up any one of his more than 38 information packed books about Colorado that he has either authored or co-authored. Winner of the Thomas Hornsby Lifetime Literary Achievement Award from the Colorado Center for the Book, his knowledge of the Mile High state is astounding. From Brothels, Bordellos and Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, to Colorado: The Illustrated Sto …

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