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Colorado
EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1 - ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED THROUGH LONGLEAF SERVICES.
Longleaf Services, Inc.
116 S. Boundary St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3808
Phone: 800-848-6224 / Fax: 800-272-6817
E-mail: customerservice@longleafservices.org
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Central City and Gilpin County: Then and Now
ISBN 0-87004-363-3
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Caxton Press
Robert L. Brown
Gold brought people to mid-nineteenth century Colorado. Central City and its environs came to be known as "The Richest Square Mile on Earth." Gilpin County soon evolved, with a population that sometimes approached 40,000, and Central City became the second largest community in Colorado. This book tells the story of this remarkable area, its towns, its mines, and its people. Scores of "then and now" photographs of historic sites illustrate the text.
6x9, Paperback, 200 pages, illustrated, index.
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$8.95
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Colorado Ghost Towns Past and Present
ISBN 0-87004-218-1
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Caxton Press
Robert L.Brown
History, nostalgia, and detailed travel directions combine to provide background for exploring sixty-five of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. Brown pairs early and contemporary photographs of many towns, as he tells of the people and places from the 1800s.
6x9, 322 pages, Paperback, 140 photographs, map, index.
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$14.95
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Colorado On Foot
ISBN 0-87004-336-6
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Caxton Press
Robert L. Brown
Robert Brown traces the routes of the early explorers and settlers and shares some seventy trails through the Colorado Rockies. Some are wagon trails up to the mines, often visible from the cities. Others are adventuresome outings, requiring preparation and skill. Brown explains the difficulty level of each trail, how to get there, where to park, and what will be found along the trail. This is another invaluable Colorado guidebook.
6x9, Paperback, 309 pages, 139 illustrations, 7 maps.
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$12.95
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Colorado Treasure Tales
ISBN 0-87004-402-8
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Caxton Press
W.C. Jameson
Lost mines, missing outlaw loot and buried and sunken treasure fascinate many folks. Colorado has more than its share of stories about lost treasure. W.C. Jameson has spent many years collecting such tales. In Colorado Treasure Tales Jameson presents 27 intriguing, mysterious and compelling stories about lost gold and silver mines, hidden strongboxes, missing Army payrolls and Spanish loot.
6x9, Paperback, 220 pages, maps.
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$13.95
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From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries
ISBN 0-87004-386-2
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Caxton Press
Linda Wommack
The only comprehensive guide to Colorado's oldest graveyards.
Includes:
• Nearly 400 cemeteries
• More than 1,000 pioneer mini-biographies
• Easy-to-follow road directions and guides to individual plots.
• Regional maps.
• Histories of regions and communities
• Clever epitaphs.
6x9, 500 pages, 100 photos, maps.
Available in Paperback ($24.95) or Hardcover ($34.95).
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$24.95
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Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
ISBN 0-87004-342-0
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Caxton Press
Robert L. Brown
This book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history of each town as well as an early and a contemporary photograph to aid in site identification.
6x9, 401 pages, Paperback, 136 photographs, map, index.
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$17.95
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Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns
ISBN 0-87004-021-9
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Caxton Press
Robert L. Brown
Settle into your 4-wheel drive vehicle or any old easy chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s with directions on how to get there.
6x9, Paperback, 245 pages, 105 photographs, endsheet map, index.
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$12.95
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Massacre Along the Medicine Road
ISBN 0-87004-387-0
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Caxton Press
Ronald Becher
In August, 1864, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors swept down on the California-Oregon Trail, virtually shutting down that vital transcontinental route. The raids along the Platte and Little Blue Rivers are cited by historians as one of the causes of the infamous Sand Creek Massacre, later that year. Sand Creek, where Colorado Volunteers attacked a Cheyenne camp, killing men, women and children, is well documented. However, few details of the Nebraska attacks on settlers have been published. Ronald Becher, a Nebraska native, spent seven years researching Massacre Along the Medicine Road. He profiles many of the people who lived and worked along the trail painting a graphic picture of what happened to families and individuals--and how those tragic events forever changed the survivors.
6x9, 500 pages, 40 photos, 8 maps.
Available in paper ($22.95) and hardcover ($32.95)
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Massacre Along the Medicine Road
ISBN 0-87004-387-0
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Caxton Press
Ronald Becher
In August, 1864, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors swept down on the California-Oregon Trail, virtually shutting down that vital transcontinental route. The raids along the Platte and Little Blue Rivers are cited by historians as one of the causes of the infamous Sand Creek Massacre, later that year. Sand Creek, where Colorado Volunteers attacked a Cheyenne camp, killing men, women and children, is well documented. However, few details of the Nebraska attacks on settlers have been published. Ronald Becher, a Nebraska native, spent seven years researching Massacre Along the Medicine Road. He profiles many of the people who lived and worked along the trail painting a graphic picture of what happened to families and individuals--and how those tragic events forever changed the survivors.
6x9, 500 pages, 40 photos, 8 maps.
Available in paper ($22.95) and hardcover ($32.95)
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$22.95
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Our Ladies of the Tenderloin
Colorado's Legend in Lace
ISBN 0-87004-444-3
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Caxton Press
Linda Wommack
Our Ladies of the Tenderloin is a unique look at life in the oldest profession in early day Colorado. Linda Wommack tells the story of the women who made the night life come alive and brought excitement to the new frontier.
Wommack puts the women of the “hog ranches” of the eastern plains and the houses of the Rocky Mountain mining camps into their rightful place in history — as pioneers.
The author brings Colorado’s soiled doves to life through in-depth research and never-before-seen photographs.
History and folklore are wrestled apart so readers can focus on the prostitute as a member of frontier society, rather than a mere footnote in accounts of the wild west.
Linda Wommack once again brings Colorado's colorful pioneer past to life in this richly-detailed account of nineteenth-century prostitution. She recreates the underside of boom town life with its colorful cast of sometimes, heroic, often tragic, and always fascinating characters. Here is grassroots history at its best.
-- Paul Andrew Hutton, author of Phil Sheridan and his Army, Professor of History at The University of New Mexico and past president of the Western Writers of America.
6x9, Paperback, 250 pages, illustrated.
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$16.95
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Pikes Peak Backcountry:
The Historic Saga of the Peak's West Slope
ISBN 0-87004-391-9
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Caxton Press
Celinda Reynolds Kaelin
Celinda Reynolds Kaelin has been in love with the region west of Pikes Peak since she first visited the area. Pikes Peak Backcountry traces the history of the west slope of the famous mountain--from when it was a hunting paradise for the Ute Indians, to the fur trappers, followed by settlers and the coming of the railroads.
Pikes Peak Backcountry recounts the glory and decline of the native culture and the tragedy and triumph of the society that replaced it.
6x9, Paperback, 280 pages, 65 photos, map, index.
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$15.95
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Pioneers of the Colorado Parks
ISBN 0-87004-381-1
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Caxton Press
Richard Barth
The exciting frontier history of the Colorado mountains can be found in these true stories from the North, Middle and South Parks. During the 1800s, folks settled the open meadows nestled high in the Rocky Mountains. This book contains more than 40 stories -- each illustrated by the author.
• In Middle Park, county commissioners settled their differences with guns instead of votes.
• Piah, a Ute Indian chief, worked hard to live in peace with settlers in North Park.
• At South Park, Sheriff Ifinger tried to hold back a determined mob, tolerated Doc Bailey as he searched for a human head, and ignored Anna Beeler's pleas to be allowed to keep her son.
These are just a few of the interesting characters you'll meet when you read these unembellished stories from the parks of Colorado.
6x9, Paperpack, 276 pages, 45 illustrations, 4 maps, bibliography, index.
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$17.95
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Telluride: From Pick to Powder
ISBN 0-87004-265-3
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Caxton Press
Richard L. and Suzanne Fetter
Exciting history combines with a walking tour of Telluride to make this a multi-purpose paperback. After booming with the discovery of gold and silver in the last century, Telluride went bust and slept for decades only to revive and enter a new era when skiing swept the Rockies in the 1960s.
6x9, 194 pages, Paperback, 86 illustrations, 4 maps.
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$12.95
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The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush
ISBN 0-87004-412-5
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Caxton Press
Robert L. Brown
Colorado's Pikes Peak Gold Rush was an event of enormous social and cultural significance. Its effects reached far beyond the immediate area of the gold strikes, changing the basic economy and lifestyle of the entire region. Ever since Lieutenant Zebulon Pike led an exploring party of 22 men up the Arkansas River in 1806, the 14,110 foot high mountain that he used as a landmark has been known as Pikes Peak. When it was rumored that gold had been found near Cherry Creek, the mountain's name became synonymous with the wild westward rush that ensued in the spring of 1859.
5.5x8.5, Paperback, 140 pages, photos, index.
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$12.95
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