| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3 | The History Cooperative

*The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861–76*. By Eugene H. Berwanger. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)
Berwanger, a professor emeritus and former history department chair at Colorado State University, does not pioneer in primary sources. He does provide a valuable, balanced, and well-written overview of Colorado's formative years. As might be expected from the author of previous books on slavery and anti-negro sentiment in the West, Berwanger is particularly strong on the role of the territory's tiny black population. That population, however, has always been outnumbered by the less-well-covered Hispanic population. Working with radical Republicans in Congress, African Americans held up statehood until black suffrage was included in the Colorado constitution. Antipathy of southern Colorado's Hispanics and outlying towns to the pro-statehood "Denver crowd" also hindered the sixteen-year-long statehood drive.	1
Berwanger shows how Republicans used the admission of new states as a way to retain control in Washington. Colorado's 1876 admission and pivotal electoral votes, for instance, assured Rutherford B. Hayes's victory over Samuel B. Tilden in that close and controversial presidential election.	. . .

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