Corporate Histories and Biographies
In 1996 Banham was approached to write his first book, a 100-year history of USF&G, a major national insurance company. He followed it up with similar chronicles of Coors Brewing Company, Conoco, Guardian Life, Dover Corporation and Appleton Paper Company, among others. The Coors book, Rocky Mountain Legend, reached number four on the Denver Post’s regional bestseller list.
Banham also wrote three authorized biographies: on discount brokerage magnate Ernest Jacob Olde, Houston developer Kenneth Schnitzer, and Gary Milgard, founder of Milgard Manufacturing, the third largest producer of windows in the U.S.
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