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Selected Books About Colorado
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David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate
Harriet Louise Castle Wilcox Wason [1839-?] was known as 'the Poet of Colorado'
Selected Non-Fiction & Memoir Books About Colorado
 | "Great River: The Rio Grande In North American History" [1954] by Paul Horgan {won the Bancroft Prize and Pulitzer Prize for History} Volume 1: Indians & Spain, Volume 2: Mexico & The United States Kindle Edition from Wesleyan [4/2012] for $14.29 Wesleyan 8½x5½ pb [10/91] for $21.79 Holt, Rinehart & Winston 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/71] out of print/used Rinehart & Co. 9½x6¾ hardcover [1954] out of print/many used |
 | "The Rocky Mountain Herald Reader" [1966] Edited by Thomas Hornsby Ferril & Helen Ferril, Introduction by Mark Van Doren Wm. Morrow 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1966] - overpriced! |
 | "Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp: Their Colorado Careers" [1978] by E. Richard Churchill Western Reflections Publng 8¼x5½ pb [2001] out of print/used Timberline Books 8½x5½ pb [6/78] out of print/used see also 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's pages for Wyatt Earp [1848-1929]
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 | "Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho" [1981] by mystery author Margaret Coel Award-winning biography of Chief Left Hand [c1825-1864], whose Indian name was Niwot; he took a peacable attitude toward the many whites moving into Colorado, but was among those massacred at Sand Creek under orders of Territorial Governor John A. Evans Univ Oklahoma Press 9x6 pb [3/88] for $14.96 Univ Oklahoma Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/1981] out of print/used Chief Niwot entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Colorado Scenic Guide: Northern Region" [1983] by Lee Gregory
Johnson Books 3rd edition 9x6 pb [6/96] for $14.95 "Colorado Scenic Guide: Southern Region" [1984] by Lee Gregory
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 | "The Great Southwest of The Fred Harvey Company and The Santa Fe Railway" [1996] Edited by Marta Weigle & Barbara A. Babcock Heard Museum 12x9 pb [6/96] out of print/used more info on the Harvey House Restaurants Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' |
 | "Rio Grande: From The Rocky Mountains To The Gulf of Mexico" [1999] by Peter Lourie Boyds Mills Press 8x10 pb [9/2000] for $9.95 Boyds Mills Press 8¼x10¼ YA hardcover [2/99] for $17.95 |
 | "Railroads of Colorado: Your Guide To Colorado's Historic Trains and Railway Sites" [2004] by Claude Wiatrowski Voyageur Press 11¼x9 hardcover [6/2004] out of print/used |
 | "Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing" [2004] Edited by Steve Grinstead & Ben Fogelberg 33 articles & essays previously published by the Colorado Historical Society, by authors including Helen Hunt Jackson, William Henry Jackson, Louis L'Amour, David Lavender & Wallace Stegner Fulcrum Publng 9¼x6 pb [9/2004] for $24.98 |
 | "A Colorado History - Ninth Edition" [orig 1965, rev 2006] by Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson & Duane A. Smith WestWinds Press/Pruett Series 9x6 pb [1/2006] for $23.66 Pruett Publng Third Edition hardcover [1972] out of print/used |
 | "The Colorado Labor Wars, 1903-1904 - Cripple Creek District" [2006]
Kindle Edition from Pikes Peak Library District [2006 edition] for $4.99 Pikes Peak Library District 8½x5½ pb [8/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Colorado Industries of The Past" [2008] by William L. Reich over 220 b&w images & illustrations Johnson Books 9¾x7 pb [10/2008] for $15.49 official book page {list price $18.95} |
 | "The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining In Colorado, 1859-2009" [2009] by {historian} Duane A. Smith Kindle Edition from Univ Press Colorado [5/2011] for $10.99 Univ Press Colorado 8¾x6½ pb [8/2011] for $16.51 Univ Press Colorado 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2009] out of print/used |
 | "An Elevated View: Colorado Writers On Writing" [2011] Edited by W.C. Jameson contributors include Mario Acevedo, Kathy Brandt, Margaret Coel, Dan Guenther, David Mason, Larry Meredith, Mara Purl, Joe Stone, Kym O’Connell Todd & Mark Todd, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Susan Tweit Kindle Edition from Seven Oaks Publng [11/2011] for $7.99 Seven Oaks Publng 9x6 pb [5/2011] for $11.66 |
 | "Hoist A Cold One!: Historic Bars of The Southwest" [2011] by Melody & Myke Groves Descriptions of 25 historic establishments in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico & Colorado, with photos past & present and driving directions U.N.M. Press 8x10 pb [7/2011] for $18.21 |
 | "Colorado's Best Ghost Towns" [2011] by Kenneth Jessen Using a rating system after completing his 4-volumes on Colorado ghost towns, author chose 105 'best' ghost towns for this book; includes histories, historic & contemporary photographs (many in color), and maps with GPS coordinates. J.V. Publns 10x8 pb [9/2011] for $16.91 |
 | "A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings On The Eastern Plains" [2011] by Jolie Anderson Gallagher
The History Press 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $16.52 |
 | "The Rio Grande: An Eagle's View" [2011] Edited by Barbara McIntyre, Aerial photography by Adriel Heisey, Foreword by Robert Redford
WildEarth Guardians 11½x10½ hardcover [7/2011] for $47.25 |
 | "Reining In The Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water" [2011] by Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall & Mary E. Black Univ New Mexico Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2011] for $23.76 |
 | "Film and Photography On The Front Range" for Kindle [2012]
Statewide history back to 1853 of amateur & professional photographers and of the movie industry in Colorado Territory & Colorado State. Kindle Edition from Pikes Peak Library District [6/2012] for $5.99 |
 | "Strike! Mother Jones and The Colorado Coal Field War" [2012] by Lois Ruby Kindle Edition from Filter Press [9/2012] for $6.99 Filter Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2012] for $8.95 Filter Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2012] for $17.95 |
 | "Hollywood of The Rockies: Colorado, The West, and America's Film Pioneers" [2013] by Michael J. Spencer After New York & New Jersey, the movie industry centered in Hollywood, California; but in between (1895-1915), many motion pictures were made in Colorado; author first produced a half-hour TV show for Rocky Mountain PBS, then this book. Kindle Edition from The History Press [7/2013] for $9.99 The History Press 9x6 pb [7/2013] for $16.86 official book site • PBS-TV program promo (30-seconds; in new window) |
 | "Colorado Inventions & Inventors of The 19th Century" [2013] by William L. Reich includes 149 b&w patent drawings & applications and 30 photographs & other illustrations Colorado Railroad Museum 11x8½ pb [re-issued 9/2014] - still not listed at Amazon (2015) official book page {list price $29.95} |
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"Early Hispanic Colorado, 1678-1900" [2015] by Joseph P. Sánchez Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [8/2015] for $0.00 |
 | "Silver Rails: The Railroads of Leadville, Colorado" [2015] by Christopher James Sierra Grande Press 8½x11½ hardcover [2015] out of print/used The story of Leadville's three railroads: the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado Midland, and the Denver, South Park & Pacific; 400+ b/w and color images, 18 route maps, 7 historic maps, bibliography, comprehensive index • official book site |
 | "River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind The Gold King Mine Disaster" [2018] by {environmental journalist} Jonathan P. Thompson
Kindle Edition from Torrey House Press [3/2018] for $9.99 Torrey House Press 7¾x5 pb [3/2018] for $12.76 |
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"The Denver Press Club: 150 Years of Printer’s Devils, Bohemians, and Ghosts" [2018] by Alan J. Kania The story of 150 years of the printer’s devils who served as the jack of all trades in print shops, the Bohemian lifestyle of the reporters who gathered the news, the ghosts of America's printed newspapers, and a few poker-playing spirits inside the Denver Press Club Xlibris US 9x6 pb [7/2018] for $19.99 Xlibris US 9x6 hardcover [7/2018] for $29.99 |
http://www.amazon.com/Coal-Creek-Canyon-Colorado-Tales/dp/0692013245/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-History-Centennial-State-Fifth/dp/1607322269/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-History-Centennial-State-Fourth/dp/0870818007/
http://www.amazon.com/Dawsons-Guide-Colorados-Fourteeners-Vol/dp/0962886718/
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Towns-Colorado-Pictorial-Discovery/dp/0896584186/
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Colorado-Images-America-Pioneer/dp/0738520748/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Places-Colorado-Marty-Bartholomew/dp/1932098682/
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Trails-Tommyknockers-Stories-Colorados/dp/0933472013/
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Voices-Years-Colorado-Writing/dp/1555915310/
http://www.amazon.com/Yampa-Valley-Sin-Circuit-Districts/dp/1626191670/
"The Labor War In Colorado" [1901] by Ben Hanford
http://www.amazon.com/Labor-War-Colorado-Classic-Reprint/dp/B008Z4WNKS/
"Mountains of Silver: Life in Colorado's Red Mountain Mining District" [2/2000] by P. David Smith
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890437360/
"Colorado Mining Stories" [Sept 2002] by Caroline Arlen
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890437743/
"The Corpse On Boomerang Road: Telluride's War on Labor, 1899-1908" [Aug 2004] by MaryJoy Martin
http://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Boomerang-Road-Tellurides-1899-1908/dp/1932738029/
"High, Wild & Handsome" [AuthorHouse 11/2004] Joanna Sampson
http://www.amazon.com/HIGH-WILD-HANDSOME-Joanna-Sampson/dp/1418465631/
"Strange But True, Colorado: Weird Tales of The Wild West" [6/2005] by John Hafnor
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-but-True-Colorado-Weird/dp/0964817535/
"Here Lies Colorado: Fascinating Figures In Colorado History" [10/2005] by Richard E. Wood
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Lies-Colorado-Fascinating-Figures/dp/1560373342/
"Colorado's Historic Hotels" [July 2011] by Alexandra Walker Clark
http://www.amazon.com/Colorados-Historic-Hotels-Alexandra-Walker/dp/160949301X/
"The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes" [10/2011] by Phyllis Flanders Dorset
http://www.amazon.com/New-Eldorado-Colorados-Silver-Rushes/dp/1555917232/
Selected Fiction Books About Colorado
mystery author Margaret Coel lives in Boulder, Colorado
 | "Colorado" [1947 novel] by Pulitzer Prize-winner Louis Bromfield [1896-1956] Witty and engaging tale of the rough and tumble miners, cowboys, and immigrants of fictional 'Silver City', Colorado – and their women Popular Library mass pb [1975] out of print/scarce Bantam Books mass pb [1951] out of print/scarce Harper & Bros. 8x5½ hardcover [1947] out of print/150+ used Harper & Bros. Book Club hardcover [1947] out of print/used |
"Centennial: A Novel" [1974] by James A. Michener [1907-97]
"An epic novel of the history, land, and people of Colorado State, centered around the fictional town of Centennial, with Michener's usual extensive
cast of characters including Native Americans, French fur trappers, English noblemen, and American businessmen & cowboys."
 | "The Poet" [1996 mystery novel] by Michael Connelly Denver, Colorado crime reporter Jack McEvoy is assigned the story of the death of his twin brother, a homicide detective. Suicide is out of the question, and the more Jack investigates, the more it looks like a serial killing, and within days he is sucked into a national F.B.I. hunt for a killer dubbed The Poet. Kindle Edition from Little, Brown / Hachette [2003 edition] for $6.64 Warner Books mass pb [1/97] for $7.99 Warner Books 8x5¼ pb [7/2002] for $11.21 Little, Brown 9¾x6½ hardcover [1/96] out of print/many used Brilliance ABR audio CD [4/2003] out of prodn/used |
 | "Ride To Raton" [2003] by Marsha Ward After being jilted by his fianceé, James Owen sets out looking for a new life; he meets beautiful young Amparo Garcés, who has come from Santa Fe to Colorado to marry a stranger. Through a twist of fate, James & Amparo must set out on a hazardous horseback trek over Raton Pass to Santa Fe, 'battling their personal demons, a challenging language barrier, and winter's raging storms'. Kindle Edition from WestWard Books [5/2011] for $2.99 iUniverse 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $15.95 |
"Against The Day" [2006 novel] by Thomas Pynchon
much of the story is set in Colorado mining towns at the end of the 19th century.
 | "A Dozen On Denver: Stories" [2009] from the Editors of The Rocky Mountain News
Winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award; illustrated by Charles Chamberlin; featuring 12 Colorado authors: Nick Arvin, Margaret Coel, Sandra Dallas, Diane Mott Davidson, Joanne Greenberg, Robert Greer, Arnold Grossman, Pam Houston, Laura Pritchett, Manuel Ramos, Connie Willis & Robert Pogue Ziegler Kindle Edition from Fulcrum Publng [11/2009] for $15.40 Fulcrum Publng 7¾x5¾ hardcover [11/2009] for $17.16 |
 | "East of Denver: A Novel" [2012] by Gregory Hill winner of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award • official book site Shakespeare Williams takes his dead cat back to his family’s farm in eastern Colorado for burial and finds that his widowed and senile father is living in squalor, with no money and the land lying fallow since a local banker has cheated old Emmett out of the majority of the farm equipment and his beloved Cessna airplane. With no job and no prospects, Shakespeare finds himself caretaker to both his dad and the farm. He is drawn into a mismatched clique of old high school classmates, who start thinking seriously of bank robbery . . . Kindle Edition from MobileRef [7/2012] for $12.99 Dutton Adult 8¼x5½ hardcover [7/2012] for $14.25 |
 | "Mister Moffat's Road" historical novel [2014] by Stan Moore Historical Colorado events of 1902 to 1904 are supplemented by tales from author's family and by fictional characters and elements of daily life • official booksite Kindle Edition from Adit & Stope [11/2014] for $9.99 Adit & Stope 8½x5½ pb [9/2014] for $15.77 Adit & Stope pb [9/2014] out of print/used watch half-hour interview on Bloomfield Channel local TV [27:45] online at YouTube |
 | "Lions: A Novel" [2016] by Bonnie Nadzam The small village of Lions on the high plains of Colorado is on the verge of vanishing. When a traveling stranger appears one day, his presence sets off a chain reaction that is especially unsettling to the Walker family . . . Kindle Edition from Grove Press/Black Cat [7/2016] for $9.99 Grove Press/Black Cat 8¼x5½ pb [7/2016] for $10.60 |
 | "Mister Moffat's Hill" sequel historical novel [2017] by Stan Moore Historical Colorado events of 1903 to 1906 are supplemented by tales from author's family and by fictional characters and elements of daily life Kindle Edition from Adit & Stope [4/2017] for $12.99 Adit & Stope 8½x5½ pb [9/2014] for $15.77 Adit & Stope pb [9/2014] out of print/used |
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