Colorado Books

Interested readers should know that this is the exact same book as STORM AND STAMPEDE ON THE CHISHOLM, published by Bison Books, that appears above. I believe WARPATH AND CATTLE TRAIL was the earlier title. Both editions are excellent.

This is the final installment in the Colorado Confidential series. Learn who has taken the Langworthy baby - and why! Find out who the baby's father is, and what lengths he will go to in order to return little Sky to safety.

By the time I had read the other Colorado Confidential books, the characters had become old friends, so I was on the edge of my seat to find out how it all ends. I was 97% satisfied that the loose ends were all wrapped up - though doing so smoothly in a multi-book series is destined to leave a few choppy sections. All in all, it was nicely done and I'm glad I read the series.

These poems are stunningly beautiful. They are simple enough to grasp immediately, but as you reread them, the depth is overwhelming. The poems are crisp, there is a beautiful tension between love and woundedness. This is a book that I have given often as a gift and I continually reach for it myself.

I searched for about a year before finding this book (in the days before Amazon.com) and when I finally found it, I wasn't disappointed. The book is a few decades old now, but the writing style, being clean and un-flowery, is still as accessable today as when it was first written. Deeply informative and enjoyable, it's actually a bit of a page-turner, and is in fact recommended by scholars such as Catherine Mulholland and Dr. J. David Rogers as a fair and serious work documenting the history of Los Angeles' water saga from the 1870's up through the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct for the MWD in the middle of the 20th Century. A must for your California history bookshelf!

This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen. I wish they would have given details on the printing process for this book. I've never seen such vibrant, sharp, photographs in a book. They look almost as good as professionally done prints on photographic paper. As for the artistic merit of the photographs themselves, they are wonderful, something to get lost in.

The traffic of tools and ideas between mathematics on the one side, and the aplied sciences and engineering, on the other, is a win-win-proposition;-- and this lovely book is a great testament to the benefit to signal processing, to image compression, and more generally to engineering, medicine and biology, from taking this seriously. Imaging, X-ray, tomography, multiscale analysis, and frequency subband filtering are now making their mark. Mathematics is enriched at the same time by the new applications. The striking sucess, and the impact of the mathematical ideas, rely on having great books, like the present one, around. The public benefits from this;-- and mathematics does as well: twofold,--both from the inspiration, and from the ideas dictated by applications. The book offers a great selection of research expository papers, each one with an applied subject that makes the point.
Review by Palle Jorgensen, September 2003.

I've been buying the Trails Illustrated maps for years, and this map worked well on a recent trip to the area it covers. It showed the trail re-routing correctly, which the topo map in my Garmin GPS did not. All the old timers familiar with the area were checking to make sure I had "The 140," as this map was being called locally. It was in the side pocket of my pack during rain and small hail, and was good as new after drying, just as users of the TI maps expect. Great value at $12.

Charles Hawley provides his readers with an incredibly detailed fact-filled account of the life of one of the most famous and brilliant Americans in history - Wes Dunkle. The book is packed with interesting facts, photos, and anecdotes of the life and times of one of the true genius minds in pioneer history. The book provides excellent historical facts and records while at the same time offers very entertaining reading. A must have for anyone interested in mining, pioneering or the history of Alaska.
Peter Besler, Toronto Canada

This book will be tough going if you have no knowledge of geology, but having just finished Foutz' "Geology of Colorado Illustrated" (another excellent read), this book took me deeper into exactly what I was looking for geology-wise, i.e. more detail. Plus, it ties itself to the San Juan Skyway, a loop of paved highways that winds through the scenery of the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado, a place I know well. After treating the geology, ecology, and human history with analyses from experts in each field, it follows up with what I think was a masterstroke: a mile-marker guide through the entire San Juan Skyway, highlighting points of interest previously discussed in the book. Wonderful! The fact that the book is a compilation, with contributions from various experts that know the region well, was also a great idea. You get as a result a wide scope of knowledge that may not have been matched by a single individual. I borrowed it from a friend, but I will buy it now that it has become available on Amazon.

So much history is facts and dates-- mostly about battles and wars. Here is a look at what everyone else was doing at the time, and between the times that are covered in the history books. The stories are told in a variety of styles, almost all of them charming in several ways. Even the style of writing adds to the experiences being told.

This is not necessarily a book to be read cover to cover. Rather, it is one to pick up in front of the fire in the evening for 2 or 3 stories about our heritage-- not only for us in Colorado, but the West and the whole country.