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61) Summits to reach: an annotated edition of Franklin Rhoda's Report on the topography of the San Juan country

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Rhoda, Franklin

62) Frontier in transition: a history of southwestern Colorado

Author

O'Rourke, Paul M

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Cultural resources volume no. 10

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63) Colorado ghost towns & mining camps

Author

Riker, Hugh

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64) Huerfano Valley as I knew it

Author

Owens, Robert Percy

65) The San Luis Valley: land of the six-armed cross

Author

Simmons, Virginia McConnell

66) Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado

67) A tenderfoot in Colorado

Author

Townshend, Richard Baxter

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Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R. B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with $300 in his pockets. He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful characters, people who taught him much about life on the frontier. Jake Chisolm taught him how to shoot after rescuing him from two men preparing to skin

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68) Pioneers, peddlers, and Tsadikim; the story of the Jews in Colorado

Author

Uchill, Ida Libert

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"First published in 1957, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim, the original history of the Jewish people in Colorado, is now back in a revised and updated edition with twenty-one new illustrations. Containing a new preface and a comprehensive chronology covering more than 140 years, Pioneers, Peddlers, & Tsadikim is a definitive volume for both the scholar of Jewish/Colorado history and the casual reader alike."--BOOK JACKET

69) Memories of years gone by: growing up a coal miner's, rancher's, farmer's daughter

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70) School days in La Veta

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Walker, Evalyn Capps

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71) Wet Mountain Valley: A quick history Rosita, Querida, Silver Cliff, Westcliffe

Author

Turk, Gayle

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A general history of the Wet Mountain Valley from about 1870 to 1975.

72) Colorado 100 years ago

Author

Whitson, Skip

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73) 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

74) Ghost towns of Colorado

Author

Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Colorado

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

Author

Wolle, Muriel Sibell

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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.

76) I came from El Valle: from the fields to the chief's office

Author

Archuleta, Ruben Eduardo Francisco

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77) Mt. Harris echoes: with stories and history of the Mt. Harris area

Author

Johnson, Ruth Douglas

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78) This is Dinosaur: Echo Park country and its magic rivers

Author

Stegner, Wallace Earle

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79) Tragedy at Eden

Author

Helmers, Dow

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An account of the catastrophic events that occurred on the night of August 7, 1904, at Bridge 110-B, near Eden, Colorado, on the mainline of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, often referred to as the "Eden Wreck."

80) From trappers to tourists: Fremont County, Colorado, 1830-1950

Author

Campbell, Rosemae Wells

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