Resources

Books on the Colorado Italian American Heritage

Alisa Zahller, Italy in Colorado (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers: 2008): This book developed out of the Colorado Italian American Preservation Association (CIAPA) project at the Colorado Historical Society in 2007. The personal histories of numerous Italians and Italian Americans who settled in Colorado are related along with other tidbits of information about the rich Italian American culture in Colorado. Currently only available from libraries.
Dr. Giovanni Perilli, Il Colorado e gl'Italiano nel Colorado/Colorado and the Italians in Colorado (Denver, CO: Giovannin Perilli, 1922): This is now available on Google Books as a free download.
Dick Kreck, Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2009): This book tells the story of the Smaldone family in North Denver. It's available in local bookstores in Denver and from Amazon.
Jack L. Benham, Camp Bird and the Revenue (Ouray, CO: Bear Creek Publishing Co., 1980): Written by a mining engineer this pamphlet or small book provides considerable technical information about early Colorado mining as well as insight into the mining culture of the time particularly in the Uncompahgre Mountains area of Colorado. Available through Amazon and some used book dealers.

Tom Noel, "Noel: Columbus Day started in Colorado" (From The Denver Post ): The article tells how through the efforts of Angelo Noce Colorado became the first state to proclaim October 12th as Columbus Day and celebrate the date as an official holiday. In 1909 the state of Colorado held its first Columbus Day parade. — Read
Tom Noel, "Belly Up To Denver's Oldest Bar", (From The Denver Post, October 3, 1997).: Noel's article is a brief history of My Brother's Bar at the corner of 15th Street and Platte Street in Denver. The article came from Noel's research work for his book The City and the Saloons (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado; 2nd edition, 1996) available at Amazon.com and Google Books and elsewhere. — Read
Keith Chamberlain, "North Denver's Italian Societies Gather for Support and Friendship", ( North Denver Tribune, October 6-19, 2005; pp 2, 22): Chamberlain's article features the social organization Nativi di Potenza Basilicata (Potenza Lodge) and shows how it fit into the network of social and cultural organizations that the Italian community developed as they settled in Denver's Little Italy and elsewhere around the state of Colorado. — Read

Order of the Sons of Italy in American
http://www.osia.org/
This is a link to the national OSIA organization

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