Kenneth Jessen gives his readers an unusual and thoroughly entertaining look at some of the more peculiar aspects of Colorado's history in short story format. He shows us just how strange life in the Rockies could be and, at times, still is.

Eccentric Colorado: A Legacy of the Bizarre & Unusual

History

Jessen, Kenneth Christian

Americas

J.V. Publications

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)

Jessen, Kenneth

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)

Denver's City Hall War, Colorado's Famous Cannibal, The Deadly Rat Game, Gold Bricks for Sale, The Pickled Skull Mystery, A Burro Named Prunes, Colorado's Apeman, and MORE in 42 true stories! Imaginative pioneers are as much a part of Colorado's history as mining, ranching and railroading. They create a fertile setting for staged collisions, a horse that rode a trolley car, the discovery of a petrified man, and so much more. In Colorado's Strangest, Kenneth Jessen gives us a closer look at some of the more peculiar aspects of the state's history. Combining the best of Jessen's earlier books: Eccentric Colorado and Bizarre Colorado. "Any of us lucky to prowl the nooks and crannies of the highest state with Ken Jessen, know he is tireless in pursuing the strange. Who else has the secrets of every ghost town and where the state's most notable outhouses lie. This crackerjack book will test the knowledge—and the credulity—of even the most knowledgeable Coloradoan." -- Tom "Dr. Colorado" Noel

Colorado's Strangest: A Legacy of Bizarre Events and Eccentric People

Jessen, Mr. Kenneth C.

Asmussen, Mrs. Becky S.

Ewing, Mrs. LaVonne

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

Rocky Mountain National Park Pictorial History covers the early years prior to the founding of the park including commercial logging, ranching mining and lodges. It continues through the early years of the park including construction of Fall River Road and Trail Ridge Road. The book is illustrated with over 220 historic photographs.

Rocky Mountain National Park Pictorial History

Kenneth Jessen

This book includes nearly 1,000 abandoned sites in Eastern Colorado covering 26 counties from the Colorado foothills eastward. It is a history of ghosts towns on a sea of grass - from stage stations, military forts, once-thriving towns along the cattle trails to agricultural communities. It is a tale of homsesteaders hoping to create a better life for their family. Contemporary photographs document the abandoned buildings and empty fields were people once got their mail, purchased their groceries and sent their children to school. Maps provide a handy reference to selected sites. An extensive bibliography and detailed index make using this book easy.

Ghost Towns: Eastern Colorado

Estes Park Beginnings

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

A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state’s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West’s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.

Frontier Colorado Gunfights: True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen in the American West

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