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41) The voyage of the Beagle

Author

Darwin, Charles

Formats

Book, CD

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A book about Darwin's expedition to South America and adjacent islands, where his observations on natural history and geology in his famous journal, The Voyage of the Beagle.

42) Haunted highways: the ghost towns of New Mexico

Author

Looney, Ralph

43) The romance of the Colorado River: the story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons

Author

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

Series

Classics of the Old West

Pub. Date

[1982] c1980

44) The Colorado guide

Author

Caughey, Bruce

Description

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Includes history of each area, major attractions, festivals and events, outdoor activities, where to stay and eat, services, and more. The books is separated by regions, including the northwest region, the north central region, the northeast region, the southwest region, the south central region, and the southeast region.

45) 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...

46) Colorado, eastern Colorado

Pub. Date

[1925?]

47) Colorado, the western slope

Pub. Date

[1925]

48) Lariat Loop scenic & historic byway corridor management plan

Pub. Date

2006.

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Features museums, historic parks, open space, sacred sites, historic districts, geology, and architecture in the Lariat Loop area. The byway travels through Golden, Clear Creek Canyon, Lookout Mountain, Genesee, Evergreen, Bear Creek Canyon, Morrison, and Red Rocks Park.

49) Colorado, top of the nation

Pub. Date

194u

50) Dominguez-Escalante trail bicentennial interpretive master plan and final report

Pub. Date

1976.

51) Colorado, the South Platte Valley

Pub. Date

[1925?]

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Describes different aspects of counties within the South Platte Valley District of Colorado. Includes information on climate, industries, crops, and population.

52) The prairie traveler: a hand-book for overland expeditions, with maps, illustrations, and itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific

Author

Marcy, Randolph Barnes

Series

Classics of the Old West

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Randolph Marcy was one of the great unsung explorers of the American Western frontiers in the 19th century. He escorted emigrants, and led numerous exploring and surveying expeditions. As a result of the writing ability he evidenced in his official reports of his frontier explorations, he was asked by the War Department to prepare this guidebook for emigrants to the west. It was published in 1959.

53) Bird Cloud: a memoir

Author

Proulx, Annie

Pub. Date

[2011]

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"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...

54) The natural resources, industrial development, and condition of Colorado

Pub. Date

1889.

55) The last wild men of Borneo: a true story of death and treasure

Author

Hoffman, Carl

Pub. Date

2018.

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A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization-or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing...

56) The story of Colorado: farming, mining, manufacturing

Pub. Date

[1917?]

57) The journal of Jacob Fowler

Author

Fowler, Jacob

Pub. Date

[1970]

58) Cape Cod

Author

Thoreau, Henry David

Series

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Pub. Date

1866

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Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000. This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...