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Able, Mary Prentiss. Mines and Mills of Colorado. Denver, CO: The Author, 1976.

 

 

 

Athearn, Robert G. The Coloradans. Albuquerque, NM: U of NM Press, 1976.

 

 

 

Brandes, T. Donald. Military Posts of Colorado. Fort Collins, CO: Old Army Press, 1973.

 

 

 

Brown, Robert L. Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1968.

 

 

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Dallas, Sandra. No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days. Norman, OK:

    Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1967.

 

 

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Dyni, Anne Quinby. Back to the Basics. Boulder, CO: The Book Lode, 1991.

 

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Ellis, Richard and Smith, Duane A. Colorado: A History in Photographs. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1991.

 

 

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Fielder, John. Colorado 1870 – 2000. Englewood, CO: Westcliffe Publishers, 1999.

 

 

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Goff, Richard. Century in the Saddle. Denver, CO: Colorado Cattlemen's Centennial Comm.,1967.

 

 

 

Grisold Don L. Colorado's Century of "Cities." Denver, CO: Smith-Brooks Printing Co., 1958.

 

 

 

Hafen, Le Roy Reuben. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1948.

 

 

 

Hafen, Le Roy Reuben. The Indians of Colorado. Denver, CO: State Historical Society of

    Colorado, 1952.

 

 

 

Hall, Frank. History of the State of Colorado. Chicago, IL, Blakely Printing Company, 1889 – 1895.

 

 

 

Henderson, Charles William. Mining in Colorado; A History of Discovery, Development and Production. Washington D. C., Government Printing Office, 1926.

 

 

 

Hughes, Johnson Donald. American Indians in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1977.

 

 

 

Jessen, Kenneth Christian. Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1986.

 

 

 

Kinsey, Joni. Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

 

 

 

Knight, Harold Vincent. Working in Colorado: A Brief History of the Colorado Labor Movement.

    Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Center for Labor Education and Research, 1971.

 

 

 

Lee, W. Storrs. Colorado: A Literary Chronicle. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970.

 

 

 

Leonard, Stephen. Trials and Triumphs: Colorado during the Great Depression. Niwot, Co.:

    University of Colorado Press, 1993.

 

 

 

MacKell, Jan. Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930.  Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Press, 2004.

 

 

 

Marsh, Charles Seabrooke. People of the Shining Mountains: The Utes of Colorado. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1982.

 

 

 

McCarthy, Michael. Hour of Trial: The Conservation Conflict in Colorado and the West, 1891-1907.

    Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.

 

 

 

Metcalf, Fay D., Thomas J. Noel, & Duane A. Smith. Colorado: Heritage of the Highest State.

    Boulder, Colorado, 1984.

 

 

 

Noel, Thomas Jacob. Buildings of Colorado. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

 

 

Smith, Duane A. Colorado Mining: A Photographic History. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of

    New Mexico Press, 1977.

 

 

 

Sprague, Marshall. Colorado: A Bicentennial History. New York: Norton, 1976.

 

 

 

Toby, Emma C. History of the Formation of the Counties and History of the Counties of Colorado.

    Denver, Colorado: University of Denver, 1930

 

 

 

Ubbelohde, Carl, Maxine Benson, & Duane A. Smith. A Colorado History, 7th Edition. Boulder,

    Colorado, Pruett Publishing Company, 1995.

 

 

 

Wickens, James F. Colorado in the Great Depression. New York: Garland Publishing, 1979.

 

 

 

Wolle, Muriel Sibell. Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado.

    Chicago, Illinois: Swallow Press, 1974.

 

 

 

Young, Richard Keith. The Ute Indians of Colorado in the Twentieth Century. Norman, Oklahoma:

    University of Oklahoma Press. 1997.

 

 

 

Hausladen, Gary J., Ed. Western Places, American Myths. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2003.

 

 

 

Adams, Alexander B. Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains. NewYork: G P Putnams, 1977.

 

 

 

Adams, Alexander B. The Disputed Lands: A History of the American West. NewYork: G.P. Putnam's, 1981.

 

 

 

Brown, Dee. The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West. Lincoln, NB: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1958.

 

 

 

Brown, Dee. The American West. New York: Charles Schribners, 1994.

 

 

 

Billington, Ray Allen. The Far Western Frontier: 1830-1860. NewYork: Harper & Row, 1956

 

 

 

McDermott, John Francis, Ed. Travelers on the Western Frontier. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1970.

 

 

 

Coolidge, Dane. Fighting Men of the West. Freeport, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1932.

 

 

 

Holmes, Kenneth L. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1849. Lincoln, NB: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1983.

 

 

 

Crossen, Forest. Western Yesterdays. Boulder, CO: Boulder Publishing, Inc., 1967.

At least 6 vols to 1967.

 

 

Dobie, J. Frank. Prefaces. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1975.

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McKee, Russell. The Last West: A History of the Great Plains of North America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1974

 

 

 

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

 

 

 

West, Elliott. Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

 

 

 

Mumey, Nolie. James Pierson Beckwourth: An Enigmatic Figure of the West. Denver, CO: Old West Publishing, 1957.

Limited ed. avail at FRCC.

 

 

Dary, David. True Tales of the Old-Time Plains. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.

 

 

 

Spencer, Elma Dill Russell. Green Russell and Gold. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press, 1966.

Excellent detailed account of real exp.

 

 

Rosa, Joseph G. The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1969.