Yesterday's Denver

Seemann's Historic Cities #10

by Sandra Dallas

159 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Award-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.

A journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels.

While a reporter, she began writing the first of ten nonfiction books. They include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn. Benjamin Franklin Award.

Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published eight novels, including Prayers For Sale. Sandra is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award.

The mother of two daughters—Dana is an attorney in New Orleans and Povy is a photographer in Golden, Colorado—Sandra lives in Denver with her husband, Bob.

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Reviews

[Debbie Hoffman · Rating 5 out of 5]

picked this up as a follow-up to the historic fiction book I just finished set in 1885 Denver also written by Sandra Dallas. Really enjoyed the historic background and all the pictures!!

[Margo Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating collection of historical photographs of Denver, Colorado, with an introduction by Sandra Dallas. It's worth noting (given that the book, published in the 1970s, is now out-of-print) that some of these images are now available online as part of the University of Northern Colorado's teacher resources 'Doing History, Keeping the Past' https://www.unco.edu/hewit/doing-hist...

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have actually read other books by Sandra Dallas and expected this to be a work of fiction. Instead, it's a brief history (in pictures as well as text) of Denver.

Even though it wasn't what I expected, I love the old pictures and I really enjoyed the book (it only takes an afternoon to get through).

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Denver history