Ruby Sisson Library

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.

You don't need to depend on (or pay) a general contractor to manage your construction project. Whether you're building a new home or renovating an existing one, you can manage the job yourself. Carl Heldmann outlines how to purchase your own land, set a reasonable budget and schedule, describe your needs and vision to an architect, and hire subcontractors to do the actual building. Cut out the middleman and save as much as 25 percent on your beautiful...

Characterized by rocky hillsides, canyons and montane landscape, the Western Slope Canyons and Valleys design segment is a clear transition from the alpine landscape of the Crest of the Rockies. This design segment connects the towns of Wolcott, Eagle, Dotsero and Glenwood Springs and provides scenic views of the native vegetation, rocky hillsides and Colorado River, and provides direct access to local and regional recreational destinations. The Western...

The Front Range Foothills design segment begins the accent to the Rocky Mountains from the eastern plains and the Denver metropolitan area. Significant features comprise of the hogback, scenic views including to the Continental Divide, Clear Creek, access to local and regional recreational opportunities, and communities and residential areas. The Front Range Foothills design segment contains one Area of Special Attention (ASA) at Floyd Hill.

"An expanded and updated edition of the classic guide for backyard builders covers all the issues: use, cost, placement, difficulty, and construction basics; and provides detailed illustrations, plans and commonsense advice. Easy-to-follow shed designs with loads of color examples. The new edition of this classic do-it-yourself guide for backyard builders now contains more material and photographs than ever. Sheds helps the do-it-yourself builder...

Shows the mining techniques used to build the east tunnel of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of a Value for Money analysis completed by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and its High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE) to evaluate options to construct and finance the first phase of the I-70 East project. A Value for Money analysis compares key quantitative and qualitative factors with a goal of determining the project delivery option that best fulfills CDOTs objectives,...

In rhyming text, the vehicles of the construction crew set to work demolishing an old rickety building--the necessary first step to building something new.

In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since smallpox killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even to those...