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The historic mining town of Silverton, Colorado, founded in 1874, lies in Bakers Park and is ringed by 12,000 and 13,000-foot peaks of the San Juan Mountains. However, it was not the beautiful...

In the spring of 1870, five Union Army veterans followed the South Fork of the Rio Grande River up to a stream that ran along the base of 13,000-foot South Mountain located in the "Alps of America."...

Colorado definitely is known as a ski state, but did you know the sport dates back over 100 years to the days when it was called "snowshoeing." Twelve-foot boards and a long stick was used in those...

The story of the Las Animas Mining District in Colorado's San Juan Mountains began with the Colorado Gold Rush of 1860, but it was silver that kept the local mines operating for over one hundred...

Abbott Fay, Colorado's noted historian and author of I Never Knew That About Colorado, shares 101 unique stories of places and people during Western Colorado's early days.Did you know that: --...

Chipeta -- Queen of the UtesAuthor: Cynthia S. BeckerPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Colorado Mining Stories is a collection of tales depicting the hazards, heroics and humor of hardrock mining in Colorado. While collecting the stories for her book, Caroline Arlen would hear the same...

Ernest Ingersoll, famous 19th century travel writer, set out to explore Colorado in the 1880s because "it was wild and rough" and caused "exhilaration of the body and soul." The result of his...

Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. His daughter, Evalyn Walsh McLean, tells an engaging true story of the family that wanted for...

When Bulletin 478 was published by the United States Geological Survey, the big mines around Lake City, Colorado, had all been discovered and many had been worked for decades. Some of the more famous...

This book contains short stories with interesting facts about Grand Mesa, America's largest mesa located near Grand Junction, Colorado. Written by Abbott Fay, one of the area's greatest story...

Journalist Robert Strahorn came to Gunnison County, Colorado in the summer of 1880 to see firsthand what the excitement was all about. The Utes had been told they would have to leave Colorado, thus...

Using fictional, "third-person" names in order to provide readers an "impersonal outlook of the Western Slope as a whole," Colorado pioneers Henry and Martha Ripley detailed their family life and the...

History of the State of Colorado - Vol. IAuthor: Frank HallPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 664 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

History of the State of Colorado - Vol. IIAuthor: Frank HallPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 660 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

History of the State of Colorado - Vol. IIIAuthor: Frank HallPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 684 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

History of the State of Colorado - Vol. IVAuthor: Frank HallPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 784 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

In his book I Never Knew That About Colorado, author and historian Abbott Fay presents a unique compilation of long-forgotten and little-publicized happenings of Colorado history. While this book is...

IMAGES OF THE SAN JUANS--HISTORIC SELECTIONS FROM THE RUTH AND MARVIN GREGORY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Images of the San Juans is a rare treat--a collection of over 250 photos, many never before...

The rugged beauty of the San Juan Mountain Range and some captivating experiences of miners who rushed to Southwestern Colorado in the late 1800s, are again made available to the public in this...

A little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a "silver rush" with an output of precious metals second in Colorado...

She had always had a special connection with the animals that entered her life - dogs, cats, marmots, wildlife in general, but especially Colorado's beautiful mule deer. It was a mutual camaraderie,...

The burro has been a very special part of the land that is now called Colorado, dating all the way back to Spanish exploration of the New World. Despite abuse, ridicule, and torture, this little...

Riches to RustAuthor: Eric TwittyPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 392 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1890437603ISBN-13:...

San Juan SilverAuthor: Arthur W. MonroePublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Publication Date: Feb 20, 2009Number of Pages: 260 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1932738789ISBN-13:...

Arthur Lakes, generally considered to be the "Father of Colorado Geology," taught geology at the Colorado School of Mines, but also saw the need for a book that laymen could use in their quest to...

Exploration, adventure, hardship, success - these are words that are interchangeable with the "taming" of the American West. They are also words that exemplify one of the lesser known, but greatest...

The Million Dollar Highway runs north and south directly through the middle of the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern, Colorado - some of the most beautiful and rugged country in all of North...

Concentrating on unique events, people whose stories have never fully been told, and a few "new" facts, The San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado - Calderas, Mastodons, Conquistadors, and Gold...

Western Reflections is reprinting an engaging, historical autobiography for the general public -- "The Snow-Shoe Itinerant." Reverend John Dyer, an intrepid Methodist minister, came to Colorado in...