Colorado's San Juan Mountains are home to some of the most historic, and notorious, gold and silver mining towns in the West: Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and Creede. For five centuries, the San Juans were the summer home to the Ute Indians. They were explored and claimed by Spaniards 250 years ago, and it has only been 150 years since they were entered and permanently settled by European ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Duane A. Smith

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to "This Blue Hollow," is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the years when travel became a middle-class rite of summer and the park and town developed quickly, from 1903 to 1945. America's Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: James H. Pickering

As the representative building of the state, the Capitol has served as a silent witness to the evolving needs and interests of all Colorado citizens. The statehouse provided a proud testament for nineteenth-century Coloradoans who wanted to prove their state’s potential through grand architecture and it represents "the heart of Colorado" to this day. In one comprehensive volume ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Derek R. Everett

Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel

Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. Duane A. Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 "discovery" of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. Smith also ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: Duane A. Smith

This is the first comprehensive account of the early history of Estes Park, Colorado, the 'gem of the Rockies'. In this enthralling narrative, James H Pickering traces the development of Estes Park as a mountain resort community from 1859, when Joel Estes first saw it, to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. Though Estes and his family stayed only briefly, others quickly ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Written By: James H. Pickering

Most of the people in this book will die before the fifth paragraph. You probably haven't heard of any of them. That doesn't mean it s a book about nobodies. That doesn't mean it s a book about death. The obituaries collected here are at times humorous and at times heartbreaking. They shine a light into forgotten places and forgotten lives. Inside are countless lessons of life, taught by people we ...

Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Company
Written By: Jim Sheeler

The only comprehensive roadside tour guide to Colorado's oldest cemeteries and the history buried there. This 500-page work includes: -Nearly four hundred Colorado cemeteries -More than 1,000 mini-biographies of interred pioneers -Easy to follow road directions and cemetery guides -Regional maps by chapter -History of the areas and communities -Clever epitaphs -How to do your own gravestone ...

Manufacturer: Caxton Press
Written By: Linda Wommack

Threads of Honor is a true story of courage and sacrifice, of Boy Scouts learning about perseverance, of the great men and women of the American space program, and of the unquenchable spirit of a most remarkable American flag. The book’s rich appendix adds a 28-page history of the American Flag over its 230-year existence, including key events in American history that involved the flag. ...

Manufacturer: Mapletree Publishing Company
Written By: Gordon W. Ryan

This is an informational, historical, biographical book regarding the early mansions of Denver and the people who built them. The book covers descriptions, photographs and drawings of the residences and delves into the lives of the families who lived in them.

Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Company
Written By: James Bretz