Ruby Sisson Library

Imagine what it would be like to take a trip through Colorado with John Fielder as your tour guide, or to be on location at a Fielder photo shoot. Now is your chance to do both! The celebrated photographer who has traveled the state for more than 40 years in search of its most beautiful vistas shares his love for Colorado's rugged beauty, as well as his knowledge of Colorado's historical, recreational, and cultural richness, in this extraordinary...

An alphabetical guide to the geography, economy, history and people of Colorado.

'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.

The author's journey through the Southwest, with over two hundred photographs taken by his brother.

Description of 42 "ghost towns" in photograph and story. All but 3 are accessible by car.

Lasso the Wind is a look at the eleven states "on the sunset side of the 100th meridian" that Egan regards as the true West. Fishing rod and notebook in hand, he travels by car and foot, horseback and raft, through a region struggling to find its future direction under both the ideological weight of the past and the commercial threats of the present. He visits the Sky City of Acoma, which may be the oldest continuously inhabited community in America,...

This new volume is the history of the Western Slope from the Indians of Mesa Verde to the present, divided into four parts; early history to 1874; the mining era, 1874-1915; the good days; 1900-1945; and 1945 to the present--a present that threatens mineral exploitation and drastic changes in the population and land use of the region.