Colorado Books

Great book at fraction of original price. Really helped me out on my trip. Very informative.

Garciagodoy book opened my eyes to the depth of history and spirituality that is integral to the Day of the Dead. Her book is an unusual combination of scholarship and personal reflection. As an American whose family and culture pushes death aside as taboo, I was enthralled by how Mexicans remember and love their dead with humor and reverance. A reminder that under our skin we are all skeletons and that our dead deserve our continued love and remembrance. As described by Garciagodoy the celebration of Day of the Dead is an opportunity to bring death and the dead into the lives of the living in a manner rarely seen in the United States. One caveat: her book is not a coffee table book to be skimmed in an evening. It is an in-depth exploration of a fascinating subject. For those who are really interested, it is a must read.

Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West: The Field Journals Of Arthur Lakes, deftly edited by Michael F. Kohl (Amateur paleontologist, Head of Special Collections at the Clemson university Library, and the discovered of Lake's missing journals) and John S. McIntosh (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University and a paleontologist specializing in sauropods), is a unique presentation of the original journal entries from 1877 to 1880 by geologist Arthur Lakes and presented with numerous annotations, clarifications, maps, black-and-white photographs and a great deal more. Enhanced with an informative foreword by John Ostrom (Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophyiscs, Yale University) Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West is a superbly presented and invaluable addition to personal, professional, and academic paleontology supplemental reading lists and reference collections.

The Dolores River is one of the Southwest's best kept secrets. For 183 miles, from McPhee Dam to its confluence with the Colorado River in Utah, The Dolores offers a variety of scenery few other southwestern rivers can match. Whitewater, solitude, side canyon hikes, and superb campsites abound as the Dolores winds its way through canyons and valleys rich in history and folk tales.

This award-winning book will guide you down the river and introduce you to it's fascinating history and natural history.
---from book's back cover

An amazing journey of John Wesley Powell going down the Colorado River in the early 1900's, good illustrations as well.

Spare and elegant prose, like the dry side of the Cascades, makes this book utterly memorable. Ben Varon is one of those characters, albeit he was a real guy, who stays with you long after the last page has been turned.

I was fortunate enough to read this in early drafts, and reading it now, again, is like rediscovering an old friend. Familiar, yet wonderful, like perfectly broken in riding boots.

John Dunning is simply the best at what he writes. All of John's novels have heart, but I defy anyone to find novels with as much soul. I never want the stories to end and wait impatiently for the next. Superbly written, researched, and edited! Thursday Next: First Among Sequels

I recently purchased property in Durango and wanted a book that would tell family and friends about Durango and the surrounding areas.
This is a beautiful book, well written and the photos are reallly nice!
I was very pleased!

The Eagle on Battle Mountain is a highly detailed and very readable personal account about New Jersey Zinc Company's Eagle Mine at Gilman, Colorado in the 1940s and 1950s. William Burnett, the author, was a welder for most of his career, and in that capacity worked in almost every part of the complex. Most such books tend to be about "the life of the times". That is, the miners' personal lives, which were not greatly different from any other working-class worker. However, Burnet concentrates almost entirely on the mining complex, including the company town of Gilman. Among examples of details about the mining complex: The miners' change-room janitor was also the "powder man" who made up all the fuses and blasting caps used in the mine. The large underground mill (the largest underground mill in the world) was brightly lit with Cooper Hewitt Lamps, which were actually the first electric light bulbs, preceding Edison's incandescent bulbs. The electric shop actually manufactured all of the probably hundreds of electric heaters used throughout the complex. As Burnett was neither a miner nor a mill worker, his descriptions of those operation are brief and superficial---yet, those details can be found in mining journals. The descriptions Burnett provides are exactly the subjects---the support plant and personnel---that never make it into technical journals. As Burnett points out, there are several dozen support personnel for every actual miner. Mining, milling, and miners are fairly well documented. Burnett's view of life in a mine and mining company town is unique.

This is a well written account of Western Slope history by someone who was there, on location.