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Colorado Women Homesteaders with Author and Historian Gail Beaton
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Colorado Women Homesteaders with Author and Historian Gail Beaton

Date
Sat, Oct 10
Time
1:30pm MDT
until 3:30pm MDT
Location
Manitou Springs Library, Colorado Springs, CO
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Price
Free
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About this event

Pikes Peak Library District welcomes Colorado author and historian Gail Beaton for an engaging presentation on her new book, Colorado Women Homesteaders. This program is being offered to commemorate the Colorado 150 and US 250 anniversaries, as a part of the All Pikes Peak Reads (APPR) program. From the author: Nearly 13,000 women homesteaded in Colorado, staking claims, building businesses, raisi
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