Western Reflections Publishing Company

The History of "Ouray -- Gem of the Rockies" is a fascinating tale of the typical boom and bust cycles of all of Colorado's major mining towns. Silver brought the first prospectors to the beautiful...

A Silver Camp Called CreedeAuthor: Richard C. HustonPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Jul 01, 2005Number of Pages: 570 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The presence of gold in the Rocky Mountains had been rumored in the United States since the Mexican-American War and the gold rush to California. But, when gold nuggets were found in Clear Creek in...

Alienation of AffectionAuthor: Robert M. HardawayPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Aug 26, 2003Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Of all the women who came to Colorado to start a new life in the 1860s and 1870s, Ellen E. Jack (also known as "Captain Jack") could well have been the most unusual. As a young woman, she was touched...

Not all that glitters is gold, warns George Thomas Ingham in Digging Gold Among the Rockies, a Colorado and Dakota mining book for both the casual reader and hardcore mining historian. As a Deputy...

The name Cyrus W. "Doc" Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America's "wild and wooly West;" yet, in the late...

Rev. J. J. Gibbons experienced the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as few men ever did. At the end of the nineteenth century, when avalanches ran, mines exploded, and plagues hit hard - everyone...

People of the Red Earth - American Indians of ColoradoAuthor: Sally CrumPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Feb 01, 2009Number of Pages: 287 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

In 1876, George M. Darley and his brother Alexander, an ordained Presbyterian minister, ventured into the wilds of Colorado and became the first non-Catholic ministers to hold church services on the...

Speck - The Life and Times of Spencer PenroseAuthor: Robert C. OlsonPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Apr 01, 2008Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Helen Sloan Daniels, now deceased archeologist, anthropologist, and historian from Durango, Colorado, wrote The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado in 1941 as a project for the Durango Public...

Over one hundred years ago, Luella Shaw wrote down the stories told to her by Watson S. Coburn, Alston Knox Shaw, and John Patterson, all of whom were early-day Colorado pioneers. She felt their...