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Colorado Bibliographies: Books By Subject

General History        Mining & Industry        Agriculture & Livestock

Native Americans        Military         Government         Transportation

Geology         Architecture & Buildings

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.

General History

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mining & Industry

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

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

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.

Nossaman, Allen. Many More Mountains: An Illustrated History of the Earliest Exploration in the High San Juans of Southwestern Colorado and the Settlement and Founding of Silverton, Colorado. Denver, Colo.: Sundance Publications, 1989.

Smith, Duane A. Colorado Mining: A Photographic History. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of
    New Mexico Press, 1977.

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

Wolle, Muriel Sibell. Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado.
    Chicago, Illinois: Swallow Press, 1974.

Agriculture & Livestock

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

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

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

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

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

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

Native Americans

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

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

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

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

Young, Richard Keith. The Ute Indians of Colorado in the Twentieth Century. Norman, Oklahoma:
    University of Oklahoma Press. 1997.

Military (see References at Bottom of Page)

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

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

Government (for Governors see References at Bottom of Page)

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

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

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

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

Transportation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geology

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.

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.

Architecture & Buildings

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

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

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