Colorado (U.S. state)/Bibliography

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• DeLorme's Colorado Atlas and Gazetteer - Topographic maps of the state, plus information on national and state lands, natural features, camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, cycling, and tourist attractions.

• Abbott, Carl, Stephen J. Leonard, and David McComb. Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. 2nd ed 1982.
• Athearn, Robert G. The Coloradans. 1976. popular history
• Athearn, Robert G. Rebel of the Rockies: A History of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. 1962.
• Baker, James H., and Leroy R. Hafen, eds. History of Colorado. 5 vol State Historical Society of Colorado, 1927, with many short biographical sketches
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 (1890) 828 pages; famous classic; online edition
• Eugene H. Berwanger. The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76, (2007) 208 pages
• Cassels, E. Steve. The Archeology of Colorado. Boulder: Johnson Books, 1983
• Cronin, Thomas E. and Robert D. Loevy. Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State, (1993) online edition
• Ellis, Elmer. Henry Moore Teller: Defender of the West. 1941.
• Ellis, Richard N., and Duane A. Smith. Colorado: A History in Photographs. 1991.
• Gulliford, Andrew. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885-1985. 1989.
• Hafen, Le Roy R. Colorado: The Story of a Western Commonwealth. 1933.
• Hogan, Richard. Class and Community in Frontier Colorado. 1990.
• Lamm, Richard D., and Duane A. Smith. Pioneers and Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile. 1981. popular
• Lorch, Robert S. Colorado's Government. 5th ed. 1991. textbook
• Ormes, Robert M. Guide to the Colorado Mountains. 7th ed. 1979.
• Parsons, Eugene. The Making of Colorado: A Historical Sketch (1908) 324 pages online edition
• Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893. 1986. scholarly study
• Scamehorn, Lee. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado (2002) online edition
• Scamehorn, Lee. Mill & Mine: The Cf&I in the Twentieth Century (1992) online edition
• Schulte, Steven C. Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (2002) online edition
• Smith, Duane A. Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man, 2002 online edition
• Sprague, Marshall. Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold (1979) online edition
• Ubbelohde, Carl, Maxine Benson, and Duane Smith. A Colorado History. 6th ed. 1988. textbook
• Wright, James Edward. The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado. 1974. on 1890s

Primary sources

• Ubbelohde, Carl, ed. A Colorado Reader.2nd ed

1964.

• Fossett, Frank. Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region (1878) 470 pages online edition
• Fossett, Frank. Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines: Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts (1880), 1184 pages online edition
• Parsons, Eugene. A Guidebook to Colorado (1911) 390 pages online edition