Indian eater Big Phil, the deadly rat game, gold bricks for sale and the pickled skull mystery are all as much a part of Colorado history as mining and railroading. Imaginative, ambitious people and hard frontier living combined to create a fertile setting for genuinely bizarre behavior. Short story format is used in this well-illustrated book.

Bizarre Colorado: A Legacy of Unusual Events & People

History

Jessen, Kenneth

Americas

J V Pubns

The Wyoming/Colorado Railroad

In the early days of the American West, Colorado was no stranger to the six-shooter and the lynch mob. The names Bob Ford, Doc Shores and Clay Allison figured prominently in the state's history. So did the lesser-known names of James Gordon, Charley Harrison and others. In this unique collection, Kenneth Jessen brings to life twenty-three episodes featuring Colorado's most flamboyant outlaws and lawmen.

Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws & Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier

The first volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the northern region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 150 town histories from Routt, Moffat, Larimer, Grand, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. To guide readers to various sites, Jessen also provides 60 detailed maps and helpful directions. Also look for: Volume Two – Central Region Volume Three – Southern Region Ghost Towns, Eastern Colorado Colorado’s Best Ghost Towns (in full color)

Ghost Towns, Colorado Style Volume One: Northern Region (updated edition)

J.V. Publications

The second volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the central region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 250 town histories from Chaffee, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Lake, Park, Pitkin and Teller counties. To guide readers to various sites, Jessen also provides 80 detailed maps and helpful directions.

Ghost Towns, Colorado Style Volume Two: Central Region (updated edition)

Easy-to-read, interesting early history of Georgetown, Colorado, and the Georgetown Loop.Softcover

Georgetown: A Quick History Including the Georgetown Loop

Travel

United States

Hewlett-Packard and the Loveland Colorado facility.

How It All Began: Hewlett-Packard's Loveland Facility

Business & Money

Over 260 photographs and illustrations of Colorado outhouses, including two-story privies, hexagonal and ornate privies, six-shooters, WPA Sanitary Privies, decorated units, outhouse tours, outhouse races, sheet metal and stone privies, and structures on the National Register are included in this book. Short stores describe each outhouse in a wide varity of settings.

Out the Back, Down the Path: Colorado Outhouses

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The Great Western Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Western Sugar Company, was designed to bring freshly harvested sugar beets in from the fields of north-central Colorado to selected Great Western factories for processing. It also hauled raw materials to the factories and delivered refined sugar to common carriers. With such a specialized purpose, it is a tribute to the short line that it still survives today. This book, complete with 186 photos, 14 drawings and 6 maps, provides an overview of the railroad from its beginning in 1901 to modern times, including its later role in TV shows and movies.

The Great Western Railway

This four-color 8 x 10 book is designed to show through photographs what the best 105 ghost towns in Colorado look like. The photographs are complimented by a brief history of each abandoned town. A rating system was used to determine which towns to include. A GPS location is given for each site along with maps of each major area covered in the book.

Colorado's Best Ghost Towns

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