Ruby Sisson Library

Colorado, a Guide to the Highest State presents a graphic picture of this rugged state as it was in 1941. It shows you the hardy people who lived in the shadow of the Rockies, upon the wide plains and in the state's cities. Written as a tour guide, each map was carefully checked for accurate mileage and directions.

On September 29, 2007, The Photography Club of Pagosa Springs took a field trip to the Hershey Ranch. This book is a compilation of the best images taken that day. Terry Hershey and John Taylor judged the images and awarded 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place as noted next to the winning photos.Special thanks to the Jacob & Terese Hershey Foundation, the Weminuche Chapter of the Audubon Society, Linda Newberry and Terry Hershey for making the trip and this book...

Founding families of Pagosa Springs, Colorado including the Lujan, Martinez/Velasquez, and "Dutch" Henry Born. Also included are voices from the past of Felix Gomez, Raymond Brown, Fred and Lola Harman and Emmett Martinez. More history from George Alley Sr. and Peggy Wiley, Helen Tabor (Gallegos), Jewel Walton, John Stevens, Emmett Martinez and Hortense Lowenstein Goodman, Orall McMain, Bud Seavy and Ted Lattin, Pablita Young and Bud Seavy, Ruby Archuleta,...

This is the story of the Spanish-speaking pioneers who settled the Chama Valley of New Mexico in the eighteenth century and their descendants who spread northward into the New Mexico-Colorado borderlands.