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Colorado Bibliographies: Alphabetical List

Note: This list is not complete nor is the inclusion of sites meant to imply endorsement by the State of Colorado or Colorado State Archives. The bibliography is provided as a service only.

Abbot, Carl, Stephen J. Leonard, & David McComb. Colorado: A History of the Centennial State.
    Boulder, Colorado: Colorado Associated University Press, 1982.

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

Athearn, Robert G. The Coloradans. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

Beebe, Lucius Morris. Narrow Gauge in the Rockies. Berkeley, California: Howell-North, 1958.

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

Brown, Robert Leaman. Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1968.

Bueler, William M. Roof of the Rockies: A History of Mountaineering in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado:
    Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.

Chronic, John. Prairie, Peak, and Plateau : A Guide to the Geology of Colorado. Denver, Colorado:
    Colorado Geological Survey, 1972.

Colorado State Grange. Colorado State Grange History: 1874 – 1975. Westminster, Colorado: North
    Suburban Printing & Publishing Incorporated, 1975.

Dallas, Sandra. No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days. Norman, Oklahoma:
    University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.

Dines, Glen. Overland Stage: The Story of the Famous Overland Stagecoaches of the 1860’s. New York:
    MacMillan, 1961.

Dorset, Phyllis. The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado’s Gold and Silver Rushes. New York:
    Macmillan, 1970.

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

Fay, Abbot. Ski Tracks in the Rockies: A Century of Colorado Skiing. Louisville, Colorado: Cordillera
    Press, 1984.

Feitz, Leland. Colorado Trolleys. Golden, Colorado: Bell Press, 1971.

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

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

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

Hafen, Le Roy Reuben. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State.
    New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1948.

Hafen, Le Roy Reuben. The Indians of Colorado. Denver, Colorado: State Historical Society of
    Colorado, 1952.

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

Hall, Frank Louis. Structural Changes in Colorado’s Agriculture. Fort Collins, Colorado: Colorado State
    University, 1971.

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

Hollister, Ovando James. The Mines of Colorado. New York, Arno Press, [c1867]1973.

Holthaus, Gary, ed. A Society to Match the Scenery: Personal Visions of the Future of the American
    West
. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1991.

Howe, Elvon L., ed. Rocky Mountain Empire: Revealing Glimpses of the West in Transition from Old to
    New
. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1950.

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

Jackson, Olga. Architecture/Colorado. Denver, Colorado: American Institute of Architects, Colorado
    Chapter, 1966.

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

Johnson, Forrest Hall. Denver's Old Theater Row: The Story of Curtis Street and its Glamorous Show
    Business
. Denver, Colorado: B. Lay Litho, 1970.

Kingsbury, Joseph Lyman. The Development of the Colorado Territory, 1858 – 1865. Chicago, University
    of Chicago, 1922.

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.

Lamm, Richard D. Pioneers & Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile. Boulder, Co.:
    Pruett Publishing Company, 1984.

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

LeMassena, Robert A. Colorado’s Mountain Railroads. Golden, Colorado: Smoking Stack Press, 1963 –
    1968.

Leonard, Stephen. Trials and Triumphs: Colorado during the Great Depression. Niwot, Co.:
    University of Colorado Press, 1993.

Lindbloom, Harold Seth. Colorado Citizen. Denver, Colorado: Old West Publishing Company, 1966.

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

MacKell, Jan. Cripple Creek District: Last of Colorado's Gold Booms. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia
    Publishing, 2003.

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

Martin, Curtis. Colorado Government and Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Press, 1964.

McCann, Roud. Colorado’s Agriculture. Fort Collins, Colorado: Colorado Agricultural College, Extension
    Service, 1925.

McCarthy, Michael. Hour of Trial: The Conservation Conflict in Colorado and the West, 1891-1907.
    Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.

McGiffert, Michael. The Higher Learning in Colorado: An Historical Study, 1860-1940. Denver,
    Colorado: Sage Books, 1964.

Metcalf, Fay D., Thomas J. Noel, & Duane A. Smith. Colorado: Heritage of the Highest State.
    Boulder, Colorado, 1984.

Nankivell, John H. History of the Military Organizations of the State of Colorado: 1860 – 1935. Denver,
    Colorado: W. H. Kistler Stationery Company, 1935.

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

Ormes, Robert M. Railroads and the Rockies: A Record of Lines In and Near Colorado. Denver,
    Colorado: Sage Books, 1963.

Peake, Ora Brooks. The Colorado Range Cattle Industry. Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark
    Company, 1937.

Rogers, James Grafton. The Rush to the Rockies; Background of Colorado History. Denver, Colorado:
    State Historical Society of Colorado, 1957.

Shikes, Robert H. Rocky Mountain Medicine: Doctors, Drugs, and Disease in Early Colorado. Boulder,
    Colorado: Johnson Books, 1986.

Smead, Cophine. Relations with the Plains Indians of Colorado, 1859 – 1869. Denver, Colorado:
    University of Colorado, 1947.

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.

Southworth, Dave. Colorado Mining Camps. Round Rock, Texas: Wild Horse Publishing, 1997.

Steinel, Alvin Theodore. History of Agriculture in Colorado. Fort Collins, Colorado: The State
    Agricultural College, 1926.

Stocking, Hobart E. The Road to Santa Fe. New York: Hastings House, 1971.

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.

Walker, Henry Pickering. The Rise and Decline of High Plains Wagon Freighting, 1822 – 1880. Boulder,
    Colorado: University of Colorado, 1965.

Waton, Rodger Alan. Colorado: A Practical Guide to its Government and Politics. Fort Collins, Colorado:
    Shields Publishing Company, 1973.

Weimer, Robert J. and Haun. John D. ed. Guide to the Geology of Colorado. Denver, Colorado: Geological
    Society of America, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists & Colorado Scientific Society, 1960.

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.


Other Bibliographies Available On-Line Courtesy of the
Colorado State Archives

Colorado Territorial Bibliography

Colorado During the Civil War  Bibliography

Alfred Packer Bibliography

Ute Indian Policies & the Leadville Labor Dispute Bibliography

The Western Federation of Miners and Leadville Bibliography

Spanish American War Bibliography

Colorado Ku Klux Klan Bibliography

Amache Japanese Internment Camp Bibliography

Bibliography by Governor

Colorado State Capitol Building Bibliography

Colorado Civilian Conservation Corps Bibliography

Colorado Work Progress Administration Bibliography

The Colorado New Deal & Municipal Growth in the West Bibliography

 


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