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...

11th printing, April, 1967, 10th printing, April 1965, 2nd printing, October 1949

A collection of twenty-five essays in which Louis L'Amour describes various aspects of the American frontier.

Includes index, glossary and bibl.

The origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state's formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community along the Arkansas River Cotopaxi, after a volcano in Ecuador. Rifle Creek and the town of Rifle earned their names thanks to a rifle left behind along the banks of the creek. Optimistic miners mistakenly believed Tarryall had an abundance of gold and thus named it as a place where prospectors could mine and tarry....

"Very little has been written about the "real" northeastern plains of Colorado, the small communities that dot its open, sky-filled, mountainless landscape. Haxtun began as two separate homesteads, "proved up" by Alice Strohm and Kate (Fletcher) Edwards, who sold their land to the Lincoln Land Company in 1887,which led to the founding of the town. The area was generally viewed as useless land in those early days but was promoted as being full of opportunity;...

Contains information on more than 600 insitutions, sites, and facilities in 90 categories. Includes ghost towns, historic buildings, monuments, visitor centers, historic districts and more.