fter business ventures went bust during the Great Depression and a fruitless quest for the fabled Anglo Saxon silver vein, Walter Berry finally got his break when he revolutionized the steel industry by designing and building oxygen lances. 
He was not content to retire on his laurels though and set off to build a financial legacy for the world’s children. The culmination of his and his wife’s efforts led to the establishment of the Walter V. and Idun Y. Berry Fellowship Program in Children’s Health at Stanford University. 
Throughout his 98 years, Berry possessed undying optimism, a contagious sense of good humor, and a respect for all people. His story and the challenges he faced and overcame through persistence and hard work are a source of inspiration to all of us who dream of new frontiers.

Walter V. Berry: Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist for Children (The Pruett Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Walter R. Borneman

Professionals & Academics

WestWinds Press

This natural history workbook for children of all ages is both fun and informative. Children will use their imagination to color and at the same time will learn about the wild places of the Black Hills and the animals that live there. It is a great educational souvenir.

Color the Black Hills: A Nature Coloring and Acitivity Book (The Pruett Series)

Children's Books

Prather, Eric

Keown, Joy

History

From bobcats and bears to raccoons and rabbits, children of all ages will enjoy coloring the animals of the Rocky Mountains. Youthful locals and visitors alike will love this coloring book.

Color the Wild Rockies: Discover the Great Outdoors (The Pruett Series)

Pruett, Mary

Arts, Music & Photography

Everyone will enjoy coloring the wildflowers that grow in the Rocky Mountains while enhancing their observation and discovery of nature.

Color the Wildflowers of the Rockies: Discover the Great Outdoors (The Pruett Series)

Activities, Crafts & Games

This is a handy pocket guide for the day hiker with easy-to-follow directions to the high country and peaks surrounding Telluride and beyond. Helpful maps are included at the beginning of each chapter. Many of the 110 hikes are illustrated with photos along with listings of elevation, distance, time, and ease of trails to help travelers through their journey.

Telluride Trails: Hiking Passes, Loops, and Summits of Southwest Colorado (The Pruett Series)

Scarmuzzi, Don J.

Americas

The Practical Fly Fisher: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Fly Fishing (The Pruett Series)

Sprinkled in between the fly dressings and tying lessons are hundreds of illustrations drawn by longtime fishing guide Doug Stewart as well as personal stories and anecdotes. These are interesting and informative—each one containing an element of knowledge or instruction that will add to your fishing success.  The book's purpose is to help you become a more complete angler, a better fly tier, and a more successful fly fisher. It covers all aspects of fly fishing: casting, proper equipment, tying flies, reading water, the feeding habits of fish, and the proper strategy for fishing a stretch of river. Also included in the book are traditional and historical flies along with a selection of Doug’s favorite patterns. Dressings and instructions are also presented.  Doug Stewart, a lifelong fly fisher, is also a fly-tying instructor and guide and a fly shop owner, and has written about fly-fishing for The Oregon Sportsman and Amato Publications. Doug spent many years teaching customers how to fly fish during the thirty-two years he owned Stewart’s Fly Shop. “I think I get more out of teaching someone, out of seeing them be successful or catch their first fish, than I do out of catching my own,” Doug says.   

Reference

Stewart, Doug

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

The Flat Tops Wilderness Area is unique, a high plateau at 11,000 feet. Its nearly flat surface is covered with woodlands and alpine meadows, pockmarked with hundreds of lakes and drained by mountain streams. The wilderness is accessed by a network of trails for hikers and horseback riders alike. A visitor could spend an entire season here and not see all of this magnificent wilderness. This book is the only comprehensive guide to the Flat Tops Wilderness. It gives detailed directions to each trailhead and describes what you will find along the many trails. You will discover the many wonders of the Flat Tops; its geologic history from the episodes of mountain building and subsistence, and inundation by warm seas; the periods of volcanism and succeeding ice ages; and the first visitors to this remarkable land. The wildlife of the region, the flora and fauna, the weather, and seasons are all described. You will also learn common sense ways to protect wilderness environment as well as yourself on a visit to this incomparable land.

The Hiking and Camping Guide to Colorado's Flat Tops Wilderness (The Pruett Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Marlowe, Al

Christopherson, Karen

Hiking & Camping

Grizzlies On My Mind: Essays of Adventure, Love, and Heartache from Yellowstone Country

What is it about Yellowstone National Park that draws millions of visitors from all over the world? If you’ve visited Yellowstone, you should already know the answer. If you’ve never visited—or you have, but still don’t know the answer—Michael Leach explains it to you in his book of essays, Grizzlies on My Mind.   Leach is a Yellowstone insider with unmatched passion for this nation’s first national park. At the age of twenty-two, Leach’s dream of becoming a Yellowstone ranger came true. It wasn’t long before he’d earned the nickname “Rev” for his powerful Yellowstone “sermons.”     In Grizzlies on My Mind, Leach shares his love for Yellowstone—its landscapes and wildlife, especially its iconic bison and grizzlies—as he tells tales that will delight anyone interested in the national park system, wildlife and wild landscapes, rivers and adventure. Heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of human lives lost, efforts to save a black bear cub, a famous wolf who helped Leach through some dark personal days, the unique and oftentimes humorous Yellowstone “culture,” backpacking trips that nearly ended in disaster, and Leach’s spiritual journey with his Assiniboine-Gros Ventre “brother” fill the pages—and the reader’s heart.   If you’ve never been charged by an elk, traveled solo at dawn across Yellowstone’s frigid interior (working your way slowly through a herd of peaceful bison in the process), or lain awake in a backcountry tent, listening for the spine-tingling breaths of a curious grizzly—but you crave such experiences, Grizzlies on My Mind is the book for you.

Leach, Michael W.

Religion & Spirituality

A Colorado History, 10th Edition (The Pruett Series)

Experience Colorado with this new, enlarged edition of A Colorado History. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource have led readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed―and how it has stayed the same.
 From the arrival of Paleo-Indians in the Mesa Verde region to the fast pace of the twenty-first century, A Colorado History covers the political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues, along with the fascinating events and characters, that have shaped this dynamic state.
 In print for fifty years, this distinctive examination of the Centennial State is a must-read for history buffs, students, researchers―or anyone―interested in the remarkable place called Colorado.

Business & Money

Smith, Duane A.

Benson, Maxine

Ubbelohde, Carl

Economics

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