How Colorado Became the Centennial State

<p>Now You Know about How Colorado became the Centennial State</p><p></p><p>Colorado became the thirty-eighth state in the United States on August 1 1876 one hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence making it the Centennial State.</p><p></p><p>The first discussions about Colorado statehood had occurred seventeen years earlier on April 11 1859 in Dick Wootton's gambling saloon. But the Civil War politics conflicts between settlers and Native American tribes debates about suffrage (for women and African Americans) and other issues delayed Colorado's acceptance as a state.</p><p></p><p>This book tells the story of Colorado's long and twisted road to statehood.</p>