John Denver was one of the most popular performing artists of the 1970's. He released more than three hundred songs, composing about half of them himself. Denver hosted a television series and performed in movies. He was named 'Poet Laureate of Colorado' in 1977 and his song Rocky Mountain High was named as a state song for Colorado in March 2007. John Denver is remembered also for his social activism and commitment humanitarian projects. This the tenth book in the Now You Know Bio series from Filter Press.

John Denver: Man for the World (Now You Know Bio's)

Children's Books

John Stansfield

Biographies

Filter Press, LLC

Laurie Wagner Buyer, award winning poet and author of Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles, wrote a haiku each day for a year. The experience was empowering. This book brings these 365 haiku to readers in the form of Laurie s year-long collection, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal. Learn from and enjoy Laurie’s haiku, but just as importantly, use this book as a journal. The practice of journaling goes back centuries; and now there is increasing evidence of the benefits in terms of stress reduction, critical self-reflection, and problem solving. Try journaling as your path to creating your own infinite possibilities. This is a perfect gift for friends or loved ones.

Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal

Literature & Fiction

Laurie Wagner Buyer

Poetry

Santa Fe Trail Trilogy

Mary Peace Finley

Harry Vold produced his first rodeo in 1944 when he joined his brothers to put on the Asker Stampede near the little community of Asker in southern Alberta, Canada. Today, the Harry Vold Rodeo Company is the premier producer of rodeos including Cheyenne Frontier Days and the National Finals Rodeo. Harry has been named Stock Contractor of the Year eleven times by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and is a member of both the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in the US and the Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame. Author Loren R. Whittemore worked closely with Harry to write an important segment of the history of rodeo. Through Harry s recollections and family memories, the author evokes the days when rodeo week was the highlight of the ranchers year and rodeo stock was driven on trails from town to town .

The Duke of the Chutes: Harry Vold's Sixty Years in Rodeo

Loren R. Whittemore

Biographies & Memoirs

Nine-year-old Raephy McDowell is NOT a snoop. At least, she doesn't think so. She's mighty curious, though. Who wouldn't be with talk of a brand new town where there's nothing for miles except for the Santa Fe Railroad Station?  Mary Peace Finley weaves a light-hearted tale of curiousity, ingenuity, and adventure as a train station along with its inhabitants is moved in the middle of the night to become the center of a new town. The book is based on a true story of the founding of Lamar, Colorado.  Mary Peace Finley is author of the award-winning Santa Fe Trail Trilogy—Soaring Eagle, White Grizzly, and Meadow Lark. Judith Hunt is the illustrator of many children's books including Prunes and Rupe

The Midnight Ride of Blackwell Station

Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called “Baby” by the miners in Central City, Colorado. After attracting the attention of wealthy “Silver King” Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with Tabor ending with marriage in a private ceremony in 1882. A lavish lifestyle followed but ended abruptly after fifteen years with loss of the Tabor fortune in the Silver Crash and Horace's death in 1899. Baby Doe spent the last thirty-five years of her life in a small cabin outside the Matchless Mine in Leadville. “Lohse has written a succinct and enjoyable history of what is perhaps the greatest rags-to-riches-to-rags story in the American West—how Baby Doe Tabor became the Matchless Silver Queen.“ —Robert E. Hartzell, Executive Director, National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum

Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen

Joyce B. Lohse

Community & Culture

Rescue in Poverty Gulch (Ruby and Maude Adventure)

Rescue in Poverty Gulch transports the reader to 1896 Cripple Creek, Colorado, where gold was in the hills and the town was booming. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey, Maude, are happy with things just the way they are, traveling with Pa to mining camps to sell candlesticks to miners. However, life changes drastically when Ruby and her Pa are stranded in Cripple Creek. Spending days in a schoolhouse when she already knows her numbers and how to read, doesn’t strike Ruby as the best use of her time. To make things worse, Pa decides Ruby needs a ‘proper upbringing’. The hilarious antics of Maude, a menacing figure set on kidnapping Maude, and the historic backdrop of the destructive Cripple Creek fires of 1896 make for an exciting page-turning read. Nancy Oswald is author of two other Ruby and Maude Adventures—Trouble on the Tracks and Trouble Returns—as well as the historical novels Nothing Here But Stones and Hard Face Moon. Rescue in Poverty Gulch is filled with delights. With eloquent charm, Nancy Oswald recreates life in the rough-and-tumble gold mining town of Cripple Creek. Margaret Coel, author of Chief Left Hand and the Wind River novels Readers are sure to adore best friends Ruby and Maude. Her donkey, Maude, is the best friend a tomboy like Ruby can have! This is a page-turning adventure laced with twists, turns, humor, and a cast of memorable characters. We can only hope that Ruby and Maude team up for more fast and fun adventures. —Randall Platt, Award-winning author of Hellie Jondoe Nancy Oswald has the magical ability to let her young readers see life as it was a century ago. Ruby s story gives the reader a great sense of 1896 Cripple Creek. This is a great read for kids! —Jan Collins, Director, Cripple Creek District Museum, Cripple Creek, Colorado

Rescue in Poverty Gulch (Ruby and Maude Adventure) (Ruby and Maude Adventures)

Nancy Oswald

Who or what was Kokopelli? Images and likenesses of Kokopelli, from whimsical to exact reproductions of the ancient rock art, are at tourist stops and gift shops all over the Southwest. 
First published in 1990, the hunchback Flute Player's many roles and the numerous Kokopelli legends are described in a new edition (2010) of this 44 page, illustrated book.

Kokopelli Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers

Young, John V.

When the bloodiest labor dispute in U.S. history burst forth in 1913-14 in the coal fields of Southern Colorado, the miners knew whom to praise, and the owners knew whom to blame. Mary Harris Jones, known from New York to Colorado as Mother Jones, could incite a riot or calm a crowd with her amazing oratory gifts. She dedicated her life to helping miners organize to negotiate, even demand, better wages and working conditions. “I hope there is no war in Trinidad,” Mother Jones had said, referring to the entire Trinidad coal field expanse, “for it will cause suffering. But if the war has to be made that the boys in the mines may have their rights let it come!” In the long run, did she help or harm the progress toward workers’ rights? Were the deaths of mothers and children at Ludlow too great a price to pay? “It is extremely important that readers of all ages know what happened at Ludlow, and the role played by that spectacular rabble-rouser, Mother Jones. Lois Ruby has told this gripping story with just the right balance of fact and dramatic power. The eyes of the nation were on southern Colorado in 1914, when much that has made America what it is—the lives of immigrants, the conflict between corporate power and organized labor—lay in the balance. This story will speak to our time as provocatively as it spoke a century ago, and this book will engage and inform anyone who gives it attention.” —David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate

Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War

Lois Ruby

Thirty historic hotels in Colorado currently hold the prestigious Landmark classification from one or more of the following: the National Register of Historic Places, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ‘Landmark’ designation by Colorado Preservation, Inc., or designation as an historic property from city or county organizations. Linda R. Wommack brings the stories of each of these hotels to Colorado travelers and history buffs. All but three of the hotels are at least one hundred years old, and all are all in operation today. Each book comes with a music CD by award-winning singer/songwriter Jon Chandler. “This book updates the hotel stories with a look at such modern conveniences as online booking and Wi-Fi access as well as ‘Fun Facts’ and includes encounters with hotel ghosts. A wonderful book.” —Thomas J. Noel, Professor of History and Director of Public History, Preservation &amp; Colorado Studies at the University of Colorado Denver “Much more than simple histories, these hotel biographies capture the unique character of the hotels profiled, deftly describing for each the context of its place and times. So well researched and written is this compendium of the state’s venerable venues that checking out Colorado’s Landmark Hotels is the next best thing to checking in.” —Debra Faulkner, Brown Palace Hotel historian “As a Colorado native who has had a longstanding relationship with the historic Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, I noted Wommack’s command of its history. She describes the hotel’s regional and national significance with palpable affection. Those who know it well will nod their heads in appreciation, and those who don’t will want to visit. For those who count themselves as Coloradans, either geographically or in spirit, a new Linda Wommack book is a singular treat.”—Jon Chandler, award-winning novelist and singer-songwriter

Colorado's Landmark Hotels

History

Linda R. Wommack

Americas

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