Colorado Books

I live in Colorado and keep this book handy for planning vacations, family field trips, and weekend getaways. I appreciate that the author includes information on local parks, places to see, and things to do with kids that wouldn't necessarily be included in other travel guides.

This book is a must have for all ski and snowboarding families. It absolutely captures the child's imagination and adds a whole different element of ideas while on the slopes!

Butts has provided that rare delight, a book of major scholarship which may be read with pleasure by the thoughtful general public. Though her subject seems specialized, her research and thoughtful analyses throw light on subsequent American history. Butts writes with the thoroughness of a scholar but with the skill of a novelist!

Well-organized and precise - separate sections for annuals, perennials and bulbs.

WHAT A JOY TO SEE A PUBLISHED MASTERPIECE ...OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST CUTTING EDGE EXAMPLES OF CIVIC ARCHITECTURE.

Denver International Airport obviously derives it's superb design FORM, from it's context in the native locale and region of the majestic 14,000 foot high mountains of DENVER. "Gateway to the West" contains the best published architectural photography anyone could expect.It could be argued that the informed reader would make comparisons or analogies of Denver airport with Sarinnen's Dulles Airport or his soaring TWA airport at JFK, in N.Y.

The success of the airport's execution by Master ARCHITECTS Fentress & Bradburn (& winters) sets the standard for future airports world-wide.

In fact we see that this internationally world-class Architectural Firm has already accomplished a self-fullfilling prophecy, by accepting several more world-flung Airport Design comissions in the Middle East and Far East, as well as in the U.S.

Architect Curtiss Fentress & his "gang" know what they're up to, in creating majestic uplifting roof structures to symbolize air travel. This publication cements the architect' ideas into a philosophy of "FORM FOLLOWS VISION", rather than the more prosaic "FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION", and the publisher deserves credit for devoting 200+ pages of how private expression (on the drawing boards) becomes public expression (to millions of passengers who arrive at "Gateway to the West" ).

This poetry anthology by 12 Colorado writers is a real keeper. The backgrounds of the poets are as diverse as their poetry. Whatever your taste in poetry you are sure to find something that speaks to you. Humor, regret, nature, politicss, love, and a dash of magic are all represented in light and darkness. The diversity of the poetry is amazing considering the writers all reside on the common ground of the Western Slope of Colorado. Wallace Stegner, dean of writers of the West, wrote that "...no place is a place until it has had a poet..." If that is true, the Western Slope of Colorado is truly a place thanks to these poets. This collection, now in it's second edition, is a must have for anyone remotely interested in contemporary poetry of the first rank.

Compiled, organized, and written by Colorado native and former tour guide Richard Harris, The Getaway Guide To Colorado is a fun and practical introduction to the sights and excitements of America's highest state, ranging from newly created national parks and monuments; to ghost towns, gold mines, and Victorian-era historic hotels; to paths for hiking, biking, and whitewater rafting, and so much more. Maps, descriptions, contact information, and a great deal of enthusiasm pack the pages of this wonderful and enthusiastically recommended sightseeing guide.

Muriel Sibell Wolle (nee Muriel V Sibell)was a long time professor at the University of Colorado. In the early 30's she visited many "young" ghost mining towns in Colorado, sketching and researching the towns and buildings.
The ravages of time, weather and curiosity seekers have all but destroyed these specimens of Colorado's mining heritage. Over 70 years since Wolle visited Blackhawk, Central City and Nevadaville, the book is a priceless volume of sketches and historical notes.
This is one of two companion volumes she wrote in '33 and '34, the latter being "Cloud Cites of Colorado:Leadville, Kokomo, Robinson, Climax, Fairplay, Breckenridge". Ms. Wolle continued her sketching and historical writing in the landmark "Stampede To Timberline" first published in 1949.

After reading this material, I would strongly recommend the avid frontiersman to the novice to take advantage of Brown's testimony to lost and unseen towns that "once were." Brown's attention to detail is above no other; the exquisit portraits he provides makes you shiver in anticipation and almost to a point, turn back in time to actually see how we might have lived during this now lost and not too distant era.

I recommend this book highly.

This is going to be in the "Reference Section" at your local library years from now. This one goes into detail about the lost communities of Colorado boom and bust past. Read this one, and you will want the other volumes in this series. Don't put this on your wish list - get it - you won't regret it.