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This is a bibliography of the U.S. State of Colorado.

General history

Abbot, Carl; Stephen J. Leonard and David McComb (2011). Colorado: A History of the Centennial State (4th ed.). Boulder, Colorado: Colorado Associated University Press. ISBN 978-1457109553.
Athearn, Robert G. (1976). The Coloradans. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826306234.
Brown, Robert Leaman (1968). Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers. ISBN 978-0870043420.
Ellis, Richard; Duane A. Smith (2005). Colorado: A History in Photographs (4th ed.). Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-0870817892.
Fay, Abbot (1984). Ski Tracks in the Rockies: A Century of Colorado Skiing. Louisville, Colorado: Cordillera Press. ISBN 978-0917895029.
Fielder, John (1999). Colorado 1870–2000. Englewood, Colorado: Westcliffe Publishers. ISBN 978-1565793477.
Griswold, Don L. (1958). Colorado's Century of "Cities". Denver, Colorado: Smith-Brooks Printing Company.
Hafen, LeRoy Reuben (1948). Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
Hall, Frank (1889–1895). History of the State of Colorado ... from 1858 to 1890. Chicago, Illinois: Blakely Printing Company. ISBN 978-1110812097.
Holthaus, Gary; Wilkinson, Charles F., eds. (1991). A Society to Match the Scenery: Personal Visions of the Future of the American West. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-0870812415.
Howe, Elvon L., ed. (1950). Rocky Mountain Empire: Revealing Glimpses of the West in Transition from Old to New. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company. ISBN 978-1245536141.
Jessen, Kenneth Christian (1986). Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company.
Kingsbury, Joseph Lyman (1922). The Development of the Colorado Territory, 1858 – 1865. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago.
Kinsey, Joni (1992). Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Knight, Harold Vincent (1971). Working in Colorado: A Brief History of the Colorado Labor Movement. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Center for Labor Education and Research.
Lee, W. Storrs (1970). Colorado: A Literary Chronicle. New York, New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
Leonard, Stephen (1993). Trials and Triumphs: Colorado during the Great Depression. Niwot, Colorado: University of Colorado Press.
McCarthy, Michael (1977). Hour of Trial: The Conservation Conflict in Colorado and the West, 1891-1907. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
Metcalf, Fay D.; Thomas J. Noel, and Duane A. Smith (1984). Colorado: Heritage of the Highest State. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company.
Rogers, James Grafton (1957). The Rush to the Rockies; Background of Colorado History. Denver, Colorado: State Historical Society of Colorado.
Shikes, Robert H. (1986). Rocky Mountain Medicine: Doctors, Drugs, and Disease in Early Colorado. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books.

Sibley, George. Water Wranglers - The 75-Year History of the Colorado River District: A Story About the Embattled Colorado River and the Growth of the West. Grand Junction, Colorado, U.S.: Colorado River District. ISBN 978-1-938393-02-0 Copyright and first printing, September 13, 2012, George Sibley and Colorado River District.

Sprague, Marshall (1976). Colorado: A Bicentennial History. New York, New York: Norton.
Toby, Emma C. (1930). History of the Formation of the Counties and History of the Counties of Colorado. Denver, Colorado: University of Denver.
Ubbelohde, Carl; Maxine Benson; Duane A. Smith (1995). A Colorado History (7th ed.). Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company.
Wickens, James F. (1979). Colorado in the Great Depression. New York, New York: Garland Publishing.

Agriculture and livestock

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

Dobie, Frank J. Cow People. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964.

Easterly, Lewis H. The Agricultural and livestock Interest of Gunnison County. Gunnison City, Colorado: 1916.

Frink, Maurice. When Grass was King. Denver: University of Colorado Press, 1956.

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

Goff, Richard, Robert McCaffree, Doris Sterbenz. Centennial Brand Book. Denver: Colorado Cattlemen’s Centennial Commission, Denver, Colorado, 1967.

Goff, Richard, Robert McCaffree. Century in the Saddle. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1967.

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

Marriott, Alice. Hell on Horses and Women. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.

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

Meyers, Sandra L. Westering Women. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

Mumey, Nolie, editor. The Westerners Brand Book.

First Forest Ranger – Len Shoemaker. Denver: Denver Possee, V0l. VII, 1951.

Osgood, Ernest. The Day of the Cattleman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929.

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

Sammons, Judy Buffington. Tall Grass and Good Cattle - A Century of Ranching in the Gunnison Country. Gunnison: Dove Graphics, c. Western State College Foundation, Inc., 3rd Edition.

(Proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to: Gunnison County Stockgrowers Association College Scholarship Fund.) See: Jasper Ackerman.

Shores, C. W., editor Rockwell, Wilson. Memoirs of a Law Man. Denver: Saga Books, 1962.

The Cooperative Century. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1967. The Colorado Cattlemen’s Centennial Commission.

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

Wallace, Betty. Gunnison Country. Denver: Sage Books, 1960.

History with the Hide Off. Denver: Sage Books, 1964.

Wolfenstine, Manfred R., Edited by Ramon F. Adams. The Manual of Brands and Marks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Journals, associations and organizations

Gunnison County Stockgrower’s Association, 1894 – 1994. U.S.A.: GCSA, 1994. Leslie J. Savage Library, Call number: SF196 C6 G8 1994.
Fogg, H. H. The First Decade of the Gunnison Stockgrower’s Association: Personalities and Trends,. Gunnison, Colorado: In possession of the Gunnison Stockgrower’s Association. 1894 – 1904.
Gunnison County Stockgrower’s Association Since 1894,. 75th Anniversary Issue: pre-print from The Cattle Guard, August 1967.

Federal documents

Gunnison County Abstract of Assessment and Levies, 1915 – 1922,. Located in the Gunnison County Courthouse, (The Blackstock Building).
The Federal Range Code, (commonly known as the ‘’The Taylor Grazing Act’’, under the ‘’Act of June 28, 1934, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936’’).
Ker, Bill. Gunnison National Forest: a Brief History. USFS: Gunnison Field Office, undated.
Colorado Senate Journal 15th Day, Jan. 21, 1976.
Range Rider Newsletter Nov. 2, 1993. Publication of Gunnison Soil Conservation District.

Architecture

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.

Education

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

Rockwell, Noraetta, The Early History of Gunnison County, Colorado Schools. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, WSC, 1953.

Forest Service

Shoemaker, Len. Saga of a Forest Ranger. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1958.

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.

Government

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.

Military

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.

Mining and 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.

Nelson, A. P. Gunnison County, Colorado. Pitkin, Colorado: A. P. Nelson Mining, 1916. P. 47.

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.

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 S. The Utes of Colorado – People of the Shining Mountains. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1982. ISBN 0-87108-620-1 (pbk).

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

Parkhill, Forbes. The Blazed Trail of Antoine Leroux. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1965. p. 74.

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.

Magazine Articles

Jackson, William H. A Visit to the Los Pinos Indian Reservation. The Colorado Magazine, XV, Nov. 1938, pp. 201 – 209.

Borland, Lois. Ho For the Reservation: Settlement of the Western Slope. The Colorado Magazine, XXIX, Jan. 1952, pp. 56 – 75.

Vader, Diane. Mr. Outcalt and the Indians. Gunnison Country Magazine, Gunnison: B & B Printers, 1976.

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 1860s. 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.

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