Colorado History

 
Across the Northern Frontier: Spanish Explorations in Colorado
by Phil Carson
Hardcover from Johnson Books

Albert Eugene Reynolds: Colorado's Mining King
by Lee Scamehorn

Aspen in Color
by Warren H. Ohlrich
(Hardcover - November 1990)

Aspen: The History of a Silver-Mining Town, 1879-1893
by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Paperback: 360 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 8.99 x 6.01
Publisher: University Press of Colorado; ; (September )
ISBN: 087081592X

Back to the Basics : The Frontier Schools of Boulder County, Colorado, 1860-1960
by Anne Dyni

Bizarre Colorado: A Legacy of Unusual Events & People
by Kenneth Jessen
Paperback from J. V. Publications
1994

Blood at Sand Creek: The Massacre Revisited
by Bob Scott, Robert Scott
Book Description: The dust around the site of the Sand Creek Massacre settled long ago. The blood spilled there no longer stains the ground. But the echoes of rifle shots, the death cries of the slain, and the words of accusation and slander reverberate yet-150 years after the battle. 

What really happened at Sand Creek, Colorado? Were the Native American inhabitants of the village hapless victims or aggressive fighters? How did the War Between the States influence hostilities between people groups on the plains? Was Civil War hero Colonel John Chivington a ruthless murderer of innocent women and children, or a political scapegoat? Blood at Sand Creek reaches conclusions that will surprise some. 

Using rare documents, sworn affidavits, and military records, historian Bob Scott reexamines the fateful battle. Under his masterful pen, the drama and intrigue of the Sand Creek Massacre unfolds. Its powerful leading characters live again in these pages, inviting you to find truth amid the tragedy in the Blood at Sand Creek.
Paperback from Caxton Press
1994

Butch Cassidy Was Here: Historic Inscriptions of the Colorado Plateau
by James H. Knipmeyer
Paperback from Univ of Utah Pr (Trd)

Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975 (Environmental History of the Borderlands)
by Evan R. Ward
Hardcover from University of Arizona Press

Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
by Ariana Harner, Clark Secrest, Colorado Historical Society
Book Description: On the morning of March 26, 1931, Carl Miller embarked on his usual school bus run through the vastness of Colorado's southeastern plains. Miller's routine was to pick up some 20 young people and deliver them to a pair of forlorn one-room schoolhouses. Then in the late afternoon, Miller would climb back into his wooden school bus and return his young charges to their farm homes. This would not be a usual day for Miller and his young passengers, however. By late afternoon their little school bus was marooned in the worst blizzard to strike Colorado in nearly 50 years. Before rescuers arrived 33 hours later, driver Miller and 5 of the young people-including his daughter-were dead or soon would die. News of the so-called "Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy" soon flashed around the world. Culled from newspaper accounts, archives, and interviews with 6 survivors, now in their eighties, a moving story emerges. This is a true tale of the will to survive, of media exploitation, false heroism, lifelong heartbreak, and lessons learned by people too young to fully understand.
Paperback from Fulcrum Pub

Canyon Country Prehistoric Indians: Their Cultures, Ruins, Artifacts and Rock Art
by Michaelene Pendleton, F. A. Barnes
(Paperback)

Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
by Rick J. Clyne

Cornerstones and Communities: A Historical Overview of Colorado's County Seats and Courthouses
by William L. Virden
(Hardcover)

Colorado Museums and Historic Sites
by Victor J. Danilov
(Paperback)

Colorado, 1870-2000 
by William Henry Jackson (Photographer)
Listed under Colorado Travel

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by Sandra Dallas

Colorado Gold: From the Pike's Peak Rush to the Present
by Stephen M. Voynick

Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws & Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier
by Kenneth Jessen, Kenneth C. Jessen
Book Description: In the early days of the American West, Colorado was no stranger to the six-shooter and the lynch mob. The names Bob Ford, Doc Shores and Clay Allison figured prominently in the state's history. So did the lesser-known names of James Gordon, Charley Harrison and others. In this unique collection, Kenneth Jessen brings to life twenty-three episodes featuring Colorado's most flamboyant outlaws and lawmen. 
Paperback from J. V. Publications

Colorado Mining Camps
by Dave Southworth

Colorado Mining Stories
by Caroline Arlen

Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure
by Caroline Bancroft

The Climax Mine: An Old Man Remembers the Way it Was
by Jim Ludwig

Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine
by Stephen M. Voynick
Paperback: 350 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.94 x 9.01 x 6.01
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company; ; (June )
ISBN: 0878423540

Colorado Nature Almanac: A Month-By-Month Guide to the State's Wildlife and Wild Places
by Stephen R. Jones, Ruth Carol Cushman, Dorothy Emerling
Paperback from Pruett Publishing Co.

The Colorado River (Watts Library, the World of Water)
by Carol B. Rawlins
Paperback from Franklin Watts, Incorporated

Colorado Autumn
by John Fielder
Hardcover from Westcliffe Pub
1994

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by Sandra Dallas, Kendal Atchison
Paperback from Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)
1988

Colorado, 1870-2000
by William Henry Jackson, John Fielder, Ed Marston, Eric Paddock
Hardcover from Westcliffe Pub

The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
by Elliott West
Paperback from Univ Pr of Kansas

Cripple Creek Days
by Mabel Barbee Lee, Lowell Thomas
Paperback from Univ of Nebraska Pr
1984

Denver Then & Now
by Joshua Dinar, Josh Dinar
(Hardcover)

Denver Landmarks & Historic Districts: A Pictorial Guide
by Thomas J. Noel, Wellington Webb
Hardcover from University Press of Colorado

Denver's Elitch Gardens: Spinning a Century of Dreams
by Betty Lynne Hull
Paperback from Johnson Books

Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through Grand Canyon
by Ann Haymond Zwinger
Paperback from University of Arizona Press

Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur Lakes
by Michael F. Kohl (Editor), et al
Expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming 1877 to 1880
Listed under Paleontology

Emily: The Diary of a Hard Worked Woman (Women in the West)
by Emily French, Janet Lecompte
Paperback from Univ of Nebraska Pr

Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in an Age of Extinction
by Sueellen Campbell
Paperback from Univ of Utah Pr (Trd)

Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
by John Wesley Powell, Wallace Earle Stegner
Listed under John Wesley Powell

Faster Horses, Younger Women, Older Whiskey: A Pictorial History of the Routt County Fair 1914-1995
by Sureva Towler
Book Description Histories, memories, recipes and photographs document the lives, ribbons and races won by the men and women who so generously contribute to this celebration. Proceeds from the sale support the Routt County Fair. The book won the 1997 Colorado Author's League Top Hand Award for Nonfiction. It is the ony history of a county fair, or the state fair, in Colorado.

Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
(Hardcover)
by Philip Varney

Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
(Paperback)
by Philip Varney

Guide to Historic Durango & Silverton (Cordillera Press Historic Mining District Series)
by Duane A. Smith
Publisher: Cordillera Pr; 1st Edition edition (December 1991)

Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by Perry Eberhart

Ghosts of Chaffee County: A Guide to the Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Chaffee County & Eastern Gunnison County, Colorado
by John K. Aldrich
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 8.25 x 5.25
Publisher: John K Aldrich; ; Revised edition (April 1992)
ISBN: 1883425085

Hell's Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver: With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman
by Clark Secrest
Paperback from University Press of Colorado

Holocene Depositional History and Anasazi Occupation in McElmo Canyon, Southwestern Colorado (Asm Archaeological Series, 188)
by Eric R. Force, Wayne K. Howell
Paperback from University of Arizona Press

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
by Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton
Paperback from Univ of Nebraska Pr

Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919
by Stephen J. Leonard
Hardcover from University Press of Colorado

A Mine to Make a Mine: Financing the Colorado Mining Industry, 1859-1902
by Joseph E. King

Mountains of Silver: Life in Colorado's Red Mountain Mining District
by P. David Smith
Book Description: A little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a "silver rush" with a resulting output of precious metals in Colorado second only to that of Leadville. In a period of less than twenty-five years, more than thirty million dollars in silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold were taken from the rich deposits in the mines along Red Mountain Divide - an amount roughly equivalent to a quarter-billion of today's dollars. ...
(Paperback)

Mining Camps and Ghost Towns: A History of Mining in Arizona and California Along the Lower Colorado (Great West and Indian Series, V. 42)
by Frank Love
(Hardcover - June 1974)
Special Order

Mining Among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom
by Harvey N. Gardiner
Book Description: In "Mining Among the Clouds," Harvey N. Gardiner examines what one reporter dubbed "aerial" mining-silver mining at such high altitudes that the miners were literally working among the clouds. In the summer of 1871, two prospectors ventured high up Mount Bross in Colorado's Mosquito Range. There they discovered an outcropping of silver ore in blue limestone. An unprecedented find, it set of strike after strike in Park County. Thus began the silver boom that gave rise to Leadville, laying the foundation for Colorado's Silver Decade.

Mountains of Colorado
by Eric Wunrow, Richard D. Lamm
Hardcover from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.

 

Mountains of Silver: Life in Colorado's Red Mountain Mining District by P. David Smith Paperback from Western Reflections Inc

Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country
by David B. Williams
Paperback from Falcon

Newport in the Rockies
by Marshall Sprague
Paperback from Ohio Univ Pr (Trd)
1987

Oddball Colorado: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places (Guide to Some Really Strange Places)
by Jerome Pohlen
Paperback from Chicago Review Press

One Man's West
by David Sievert, Lavender, William A. Smith
Paperback from Univ of Nebraska Pr
1977

The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado
by Eliot Porter, David Ross Brower, Glen Canyon Institute
Paperback from Gibbs Smith Publisher

Prospecting Our Past: Gold, Silver, and Tungsten Mills of Boulder County (Colorado)
by Harrison S. Cobb

The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-armed Cross, Second Edition
by Virginia McConnell Simmons, Virginia McConnell Simmons, David Fridtjof Halaas
Paperback from University Press of Colorado

Ski the High Trail -- World War II Ski Troopers In the High Colorado Rockies
by Harris Dusenbery, Wilson P. Ware
Listed under Mountain Troops

Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado
by Muriel Sibell Wolle
Paperback: 595 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.23 x 10.05 x 7.63
Publisher: Swallow Pr; 2nd edition (July 1991)
ISBN: 0804009465

Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau
by Charles Bowden, Jack W. Dykinga, Robert Redford
Paperback from Harry N Abrams

The Story of Hillside Cemetery, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado, Volume 2, M-Z, Revised 1997
by Freda Carley Peterson
Realistic portrayal of high-country mining camp life 1872 to date; important genealogical research tool.
Listed under Colorado Genealogy

Sunk Without a Sound : The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
by Brad Dimock
A 1928 Grand Canyon adventure that ended in tragedy.
Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x 8.99 x 6.03
Publisher: Fretwater Press; ; (February 21, )

These Strange Ashes: Is God Still in Charge?
by Elisabeth Elliot
Paperback from Vine Books

Those Strenuous Dames of the Colorado Prairie
by Nell Brown Propst
Paperback from Tamarack Books

Treasure Tales of the Rockies
by Perry Eberhart, Sandy Eberhart
Paperback from Swallow Pr
1990

The Last War Trail: The Utes & the Settlement of Colorado
by Robert Emmitt
Listed under The Utes of Colorado

The Thunder Tree: Lessons from and Urban Wildland
by Robert Michael Pyle
Paperback from The Lyons Press

Timberline Tailings: Tales of Colorado's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by Muriel Sibell Wolle
(Paperback - January 1993)

Vail: Triumph of a Dream
by Peter W. Seibert, et al
(Hardcover)

Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range
by Ellen E. Wohl
(Hardcover)

Warriors, Widows & Orphans and Other Tales of Southern Colorado
by Kay Beth Faris-Avery
Paperback from Western Reflections Inc

Water, Earth, and Sky: The Colorado River Basin
by Michael Collier, John C. Schmidt, David L. Wegner
Hardcover from Univ of Utah Pr (Trd)

Colorado River in Grand Canyon: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Natural and Human History
by Larry Stevens
Paperback from Red Lake Books

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Ghosts of the Western San Juans: A Guide to the Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of the San Miguel, LA Plata & Dolores Counties, Colorado
by John K. Aldrich
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Ghosts of Park County: A Guide to the Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Park County, Colorado
by John K. Aldrich
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Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado
by Sidney Jocknick, Sydney Jocknick
(Paperback)
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Ghosts of the Sangre De Cristo Area: A Guide to the Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Area, Colorado
by John K. Aldrich
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