Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.

In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado.

Four brief stories depict experiences of trappers and fur traders in Colorado duing the first half of the nineteenth century.

Four brief stories depict scientific concerns of early Colorado: the collecting of botanical specimens; the invention of a low-cost way to separate ores; the discovery of dinosaur bones; and the treatment of tuberculosis.

Four brief stories portray ranch and farming life in 19th century Colorado.

Growing up in Colorado in the 1880s and 1890s, Sally finds that her Jewish faith has a significant effect on her social standing and her life in general.

Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudes legs and Rubys heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...

In 1873, eleven-year old Daniel Blair is living in Golden, Colorado with his widowed mother. His father died in a suspicious accident and when Daniel meets a Pinkerton detective, he helps solve the mystery of his father's death.

In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

Nine-year-old Raephy McDowell and the other inhabitants of the Santa Fe Railroad Station are moved in the dead of night to a brand new town in the middle of nowhere.