Acknowledgments

The most important thank you for this guide must be extended to the owners of songs and images used herein. Although fair use law for the production and distribution of free, educational materials allows the right to use these materials, each image has been accredited to its rightful owner in the table of contents. This guide would be much less educatioal without the music and photographs that come with it.

Other sponsors for the Listening to the West conference and festival included First Union, the Greenlee Family Foundation, Caribou Ranch, Westview Press, KGNU, the President’s Fund for Humanities, the Boulder Arts Commission, Wells Fargo, and the Best Western Boulder Inn. Thank you all.

I would like to personally thank Darren Zrubek, Jim Mohan, Benjy Jacobson, and Andy Russell for their technical wizardry. I owe Carol Taylor, from the photo archives at the Daily Camera, a big thanks for finding images of the Eagles and Hot Rize, and for turning me on to the music of Otis Taylor, her incredibly talented husband. Finally, I am thankful for Tom Trager’s and Tom Riis’ advice, for the help of all the folks at the Center of the American West, and for the patience of Christine Labozan at the Newspapers in Education Project.

Duke Richey