Colorado Books

'Just when Adam Macintyre answered his true calling at last, putting down roots on his Colorado ranch, along came footloose Lisa Berthoff to turn things upside down. His siblings might have marched down the aisle with hers, but Adam wasn't about to fall for a drifter who didn't believe in God, or in settling down...
As a photojournalist, Lisa knew better than to let her personal feelings about a subject interfere with a job. But she couldn't seem to help herself. Not when the subject was rugged cowboy Adam and the feelings were...well, she wasn't quite sure what they were. That was the problem...'

Mary Anne Tarr's guidebook to the Gunnison, Colorado area is thorough, interesting, and very helpful for anyone wishing to explore what these mountains have to offer. The book offers a wide variety of trails in the Gunnison-Crested Butte-Lake City area, as well as hints for hiking around here. If you live nearby, or are considering a trip, this is a book you will want to take with you.

I am a Californian planning to retire to Colorado Springs in four years. I have been reading as much as I can about my new home and this book is fabulous! I love history and this book highlights the Springs a century ago with anecdotes, personal stories, photographs, and a glimpse of life in the past. The best part for me was learning about the Century Chest that the residents of the Springs in 1900 left for the residents in the year 2000. The chest is supposed to be opened on January 1, 2001 and I'm planning to be there!

Wonderful coverage on the two kids that did the killing as well as the kids that died!

A real look at todays municipal elections No sugar-coating. Was interesting to see how a regular guy wins a major US city's mayoral campaign.

Exquisitely written in a quirky voice unlike any other, Waldstein's book fearlessly mines her life
experiences. As a young wife and mother in the 60's, as well as a brilliant medical mind starting out on her
tumultous career in pediatric pathology, she has quite a tale to tell -- of her complex self, her lively friends, her simultaneously wonderful and cursed family life that ultimately includes two ex-husbands.
In these pages, by turns delightfully amusing and stricken by doubt and pain, Waldstein has energizing lessons for us all. But it doesn't read like lessons, it reads like what it is -- a masterful artistic expression of real life, scars and all, from a born writer.

If this is the book I think it is -- I believe I read it cover to cover a couple of years ago -- it is an absolutely beautiful book. The author and photographer went into the Snowmass-Maroon Bells wilderness areas of Colorado for 4 weeks, llamas carrying their loads (which I think included a view camera, so the load was considerable). The result is a book filled with jaw-dropping mountain photography -- sunrise, sunset, alpine meadows sprinkled with lakes and snowfields, wildflowers and crystal-clear skies. If you love high places, you'll love this book.

These maps are great reference maps. They are not as detailed as a Topo map, but for general information for camping and recreation they are great.

This is a great book to save some cash if you are in Colorado or going to vacation here. I really liked it and found out stuff I never knew about the state. I highly suggest it if you want to enjoy Colorado in cheap way!

What a wonderful idea! The tours in this book are really entertaining and even better, they are free. This is the kind of book that gets you off the couch. My kids might not have been too excited when they saw the plain black and white pages, but we went on some tours, and now they love looking through it and picking the next weekend trip. I appreciate how well Jodi describes the tours, so I know exactly what to expect. I'm definately looking forward to taking free tours in other states when I've finished with Colorado.