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Table of Contents

 

TITLE PAGES

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

FORWARD & PREFACE

A GUIDE TO RECREATION

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Part I. Colorado and Coloradoans

Part III. Up and Down and All Around

 

Tour 1:    Holyoke to Grand Junction (US 6)

 

Tour 1A: North Platte to Sterling (US 138)

The Land

Tour 2:   Sterling to Muddy Pass (State 14)

PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE

Tour 3:   Wray to Granby (US 34)

NATURAL RESOURCES

Tour 4:   Boulder to Estes Park (State 7)

The People

Tour 5:   Burlington to Grand Junction (US 24)

MEN OF THE STONE AGE

Tour 5A: Summit of Pikes Peak (Pikes Peak Hwy)

INDIAN NOMADS

Tour 5B: Divide to Florence (State 67)

PLAINSMEN AND MOUNTAIN MEN

Tour 5C: Twin Lakes to Glenwood Springs (State 82)

"PIKES PEAK OR BUST!"

Tour 5D: Leadville to Basalt (State 104)

TERRITORIAL DAYS

Tour 5E Grand Mesa to Delta (State 65)

STATEHOOD: THE FIRST YEARS

Tour 6   Idaho Springs to Boulder (State 279 & 119)

TWENTIETH CENTURY

Tour 7   Cheyenne Wells to Craig (US 40)

The Economic Base

Tour 7A Golden to US 40 (State 68)

MINING

Tour 7B Kremmling to Wolcott (State 11)

RANCHING

Tour 7C Sunbeam to Lodore Canyon Camp (State 318)

FARMING

Tour 8   Eads to Westcliffe (State 96)

STAGECOACH TO AIRLINER

Tour 8A Pueblo to Junction State 96 (State 76)

MANUFACTURING

Tour 9   Holly to Fruita (US 50)

The Arts

Tour 9A Junction US 50 to Bent's Fort

BUILDINGS, OLD AND NEW

Tour 9B Gunnison to Hotchkiss (State 135)

PAINT AND STONE

Tour 9C Sapinero to Delta (State 92)

"BELLS ON THEIR TOES..."

Tour 9D Grand Junction to Fruita (unnumbered road)

DRAMA AND MELODRAMA

Tour 10 La Junta to Trinidad (US 350)

BOOKS AND WRITERS

Tour 11 Springfield to Cortez (US 160)

Part II. The Urban Scene

Tour 11A Trinidad to Junction US 160 (State 12 & 111)

BOULDER

Tour 11B Walsenburg to Texas Creek (State 69)

COLORADO SPRINGS

Tour 11C Alamosa to the Great Sand Dunes (State 17 &150)

DENVER

Tour 11D US 160 to Ignacio (State 284 & 172)

FORT COLLINS

Tour 11E Cortez to Yucca House (US 84)

GRAND JUNCTION

Tour 12  Cheyenne, WY to Raton Pass (US 85)

GREELEY

Tour 13 Cheyenne, WY to Denver (US 87)

LEADVILLE

Tour 13A Laramie to Fort Collins (US 287)

PUEBLO

Tour 14 Laramie to Granby (State 127 & 125)

TRINIDAD

Tour 15 Denver to Chama, NM (US 285)

 

Tour 15A Morrison to Idaho Springs (State 74 & 103)

 

Tour 16 Kremmling to Hartsel (State 9)

 

Tour 17 Green River, WY to Rifle (State 13)

Rocky Mountain National Park

Tour 18 Montrose to Durango (US 550)

Tour 1 Estes Park to Grand Lake (US 34)

Tour 19 Montrose to Moab, UT (State 90)

Tour 2 Fall River Road

Tour 20 Ridgway to Cortez (State 62 & 145)

Tour 3 Estes Park to Bear Lake

Tour 21 Iola to South Fork (State 149)

Trail 1 Longs Peak Trail

 

Trail 2 Bear Lake to Loch Vale

 

Trail 3 Bear Lake to Fern Lake

 

Trail 4 Bear Lake to Grand Lake

 

 

Part IV.  Appendices

Mesa Verde National Park

Chronology

Tour 1 Knife Edge to Spruce Tree House

Selective Reading List

Tour 2 Chapin Mesa

 

Tour 3 Cliff Palace

Population Figures: 1940 Census