Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

After being betrayed by his own people and by white men, a Ute Indian boy, Thomas Black Bull, seeks to regain his pride in himself and in his heritage.

Celebrated nature writer Hal Borland's memoir of change, from his boyhood in pioneer country in Colorado to his manhood, hurtling into a new age Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland's father, the editor of a local...

A visual history of Colorado with images from the mid-1800s through the 1950s.

The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small townś economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasnt́ the rapids that killed him, he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals. Mandyś world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that...

"They were all good hands, the kind of cowboys--or buckaroos--that could work on any cow outfit. They didn't all arrive together, they just sorta drifted in, one at a time. Tom hired them on in January to help with the calving, even though it was early, There wasn't much riding to do, just go through the cattle each day looking for something that might be wrong. The cows weren't supposed to start calving until the middle of February. The ranch already...

The site of Trinidad has been a part of the Spanish Empire and Republic of Mexico. This booklet gives a historical view of the buildings and history of Trinidad CO influenced by the Spanish Empire.

"The Payton family bore the brunt of their era's meaner twists: the Comstock Laws, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and World War II. None of it kept the seventh of eight Payton kids from relishing his early years in Colorado's Grand Valley. Wayne made a specialty of surviving calamity and forged himself a Crockett caliber boyhood. His explorations broadened when wartime brough family solvency in the form of shipyard jobs at San Francisco Bay...