Adolph Coors Company was founded in 1873 in Golden Colorado by Adolph Coors‚ a German American brewer. Coors joined with another German immigrant‚ Jacob Schueler‚ but later bought out his partner in 1880 and became the sole owner of the brewery. Even through prohibition‚ the company managed to stay intact by expanding into other ventures such as Herold Porcelain‚ malted milk and a near beer production facility. By the end of prohibition‚ the company was one of few breweries that survived. For most
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Zebulon Pike Pike’s Peak‚ a well-known location in America. Located in Colorado‚ it’s the first of many mountains called the Rocky Mountains. Mountains that created a giant wall of rock to early Americans as they traveled west. Imagine for a second you were one of the first humans to ever explore this area. This is how Zebulon Pike and his group of 22 men felt when they first approached this mountain‚ named after the great explorer himself. He was most well-known for his promotion of peace with
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With the Indians of the east subdued‚ the nation turned its attention to the Mexican holdings of Texas‚ California‚ New Mexico‚ Colorado and other areas that would form the eventual U.S. Southwest. Texas had achieved independence from Mexico in 1836 after the Alamo incident. In 1845‚ the U.S. annexed Texas and then president James Polk moved troops to the Rio Grande to provoke an incident with with Mexico. U.S. forces were then commanded to forcibly expel Mexicans from the Texas side of the border
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The Chihuahuan desert is large area of the northern Mexico and runs into the southern part of the United Stated which include west Texas. The region of the desert has a high altitude of 1000 to 1500 meters which fall to about 350 meters along the Rio Grande River. Summers are very hot and the winter are somewhat cool‚ which some night frosts. Rainfall in this area is about 20-30 cm which mostly happens during the summer time. In most of the Chihuahuan Desert most of it has calcareous soil that
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was found in a suburb of Denver. However‚ they do not consider this their greatest find in this area. They managed to come across a serrated tooth. This was the prize fossil at the site. In 1994‚ they came across a dinosaur rib while building the Colorado Rockies stadium. Data gathering‚ depiction‚ and analysis of this area has made it possible for the residents of that area to appreciate what interesting things lie in the past. 2. The article does well to personify the importance of its geology
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on the West. how mining change the West‚ and the practical and social problems which arose on the mining frontier. The mining cause a boom on the West. In 1850 and over‚ a lot gold deposits were found around California‚ Colorado‚ Nevada‚ Arizona and Idaho. Thousands of optimistic Americans were looking for good veins of gold to retiring at a very young age but only a few were so lucky. Rarely was anything found because it was so difficult to extract it‚ so the big companies
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10.0/ 10.0 Points The main ingredients to form thunderstorms are Question 1 of 9 A.Lift. B.Moisture. C.Instability. D.All the above. Answer Key: D 10.0/ 10.0 Points The most likely time for an ordinary cell thunderstorm to form is Question 2 of 9 A.just before sunrise. B.around midnight. C.at noon. D.just after sunrise. E.late afternoon. Answer Key: E 10.0/ 10.0 Points Which of the following regions would you expect to have the most tornadoes in the winter? Question 3 of
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Western Expansion DBQ Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century‚ many Americans considered the lands west of the Mississippi as the "Great American Desert" and unfit for civilization. However‚ by the mid-1840s‚ migrants from the eastern United States transformed this vast desert into a fruitful land awaiting settlement and civilization known as the frontier. The development of the frontier was the result of the mass population of the many different regions of the far West. These regions
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When an area is settled for the first time‚ there are certain things that shape the development of the land and the people who settle it. From the 1840’s to the 1890’s‚ the natural environment‚ among other things‚ shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi River and the lives of those who lived and settled there. Some examples of places that were shaped and/or affected by the natural environment are Texas‚ the Great Plains‚ the Rocky Mountains‚ and the California/West Coast area.
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The American Frontier was the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness‚ especially referring to the western US before Pacific settlement. The development and conquering of the American Frontier was extremely important to the country because of the many benefits it would have to the country with things such as more space and more states for the country. It is explained through works like Excerpts from Frederick Jackson Turner‚ The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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