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Book Review


Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man. By Duane A. Smith. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xviii, 252 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87081-666-7.)
No historian is better qualified to write the biography of Henry M. Teller than Duane A. Smith, professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and author of numerous books on Colorado and mining history. Smith opens with a moving description in the prologue of the 1896 Republican National Convention at which Henry Teller led a walkout of twenty-three pro-silver western delegates. Then he traces Teller's rise from a prairie lawyer to a nationally prominent U.S. senator and secretary of the interior and concludes with an epilogue in which he reflects upon a career that demonstrated the national transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. . . .
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