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1) Carl Akers' Colorado

Author

Akers, Carl

2) Treasure tales of the Rockies

Author

Eberhart, Perry

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Here is a whopping collection of tales of lost mines and buried treasure to stir the blood of any adventurous spirit and to satisfy the most lively imagination. Maps and photos galore accompany the stories. Perry Eberhart gathered and researched almost 150 treasure tales and tells them with the same thoroughness, engaging style, and lively anecdotes that distinguish his other major contribution to Colorado lore and history: Guide to the Colorado...

3) Colorado place names

Author

Bright, William

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The book lists 1,900 Colorado communities, counties, peaks, passes, and other geographical features. Each alphabetical entry includes, as appropriate, a pronunciation guide, elevation, location, date of founding, history, and origin of the name.

4) Colorado's century of "cities"

Author

Griswold, Don L

Pub. Date

[1958]

5) Stampede to timberline: the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado

Author

Wolle, Muriel Sibell

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11th printing, April, 1967, 10th printing, April 1965, 2nd printing, October 1949

6) Colorado Place Names: communities, counties, peaks, passes : with historical lore and facts, plus a pronunciation guide

Author

Eichler, Geo. R

Pub. Date

1977

7) Timberline tailings: tales of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps

Author

Wolle, Muriel Sibell

Pub. Date

1977

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'Timberline Tailings' is made up of material--letters and interviews--of the hardy men and women who met the challenges of the gold and silver mining camps of Colorado with stamina, ingenuity, and a keen love of life.

8) High country cowboys: a history of ranching in western Colorado

Author

Reyher, Ken

Pub. Date

c2002

9) Frontier in transition: a history of southwestern Colorado

Author

O'Rourke, Paul M

Series

Cultural resources volume no. 10

10) John Fielder's best of Colorado

Author

Fielder, John

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Imagine what it would be like to take a trip through Colorado with John Fielder as your tour guide, or to be on location at a Fielder photo shoot. Now is your chance to do both! The celebrated photographer who has traveled the state for more than 40 years in search of its most beautiful vistas shares his love for Colorado's rugged beauty, as well as his knowledge of Colorado's historical, recreational, and cultural richness, in this extraordinary...

11) Colorado southern frontier historic context

Author

Carter, Carrol Joe

12) Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado Volume 4

Author

So Co Chap Territorial Daughters of Colo

Pub. Date

1986

13) Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado Volume 3

Author

So Co Chap Territorial Daughters of Colo

Pub. Date

1986

14) Guide to Colorado historic places: sites supported by the Colorado Historical Society's State Historical Fund

Author

Noel, Thomas J

Pub. Date

15) Colorado ghost towns and mining camps

Author

Dallas, Sandra

16) Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado

Pub. Date

c1980

17) Ghost hunting in Montana: a search for roots in the Old West

Author

Conrad, Barnaby

Pub. Date

c1994

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In the summer of Montana's 1989 centennial of statehood, the questing young writer bought a used Jeep; packed a tent, a pistol, and a fly rod; and hit the trail. With humor and insight, Conrad encounters bar-fighting cowboys, wolf biologists, modern-day mountain men with flintlock rifles, xenophobic flyfishermen, philosophical Indians, New Age religious groups, and even grizzly bears drunk on fermented corn.

18) The San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado: calderas, mastodons, conquistadors & gold

Author

Smith, P. David

Pub. Date

[2013]

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Although many limited histories have been written of the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado, there has never been a complete, all encompassing study of the entire area until now.