Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel University of Nevada Press, paper, 212 pp, $21.95 Reviewed by Annie Dawid History and “short” don’t usually go well together, but in this case, the celebrated Denver Post columnist Thomas J. Noel and his co-writer, Stephen J. Leonard, history professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, make the combination fascinating, funny and relevant. Both writers point out that much history – often written by the victors – shows only the positive, the city bountiful, in this case, leaving out the lives of the poor, the disaffected, the victims. “Until the 1970s, most local historians lauded ...