Book Description
An easy-to-read geology tutorial of the of the eastern Colorado Plateau, this book will answer all of your questions about how this stunning region was formed. Includes detailed road logs.
Author : Robert Fillmore
Publisher :
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781607810049
An easy-to-read geology tutorial of the of the eastern Colorado Plateau, this book will answer all of your questions about how this stunning region was formed. Includes detailed road logs.
Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300071184
Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts--these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment. Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.
Author : Bill Haggerty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2025-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493075462
On Colorado’s Western Slope, stunning geological features and awe-inspiring scenery create a unique hiking experience unlike any other. This revised edition of Hiking Colorado’s Western Slope provides concise descriptions and detailed maps for over 50 of the state’s finest trails west of the Great Divide. Veteran hiker and author of Best Easy Day Hikes: Grand Junction and Fruita, Bill Haggerty, recommends his favorite routes—from short day walks to backcountry treks through the Western Slope’s spectacular landscape, including hikes near Aspen, Vail, the Flat Tops Wilderness, Steamboat Springs, Crested Butte and Gunnison, Ouray, Telluride, Grand Junction, and more. Inside you'll find Hikes suited to every ability GPS-compatible trail maps and route profiles Mile-by-mile directional cues Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, best hiking seasons, and more
Author : Phillip Benningfield
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2019-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781892540324
Author : Dave Pegg
Publisher : Wolverine Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780979264436
Rifle Mountain Park and Wester Colorado Rock Climbs is a full color, photo-topo style guidebook to over 20 different climbing areas in Western Colorado, most of which have never before been described in print. Not only does it include the most up-to-date climbing information for over 900 routes, it is also packed full of stunning action photographs by some of the most recognized climbing photographers in the business - Keith Ladzinski, Celin Serbo, and Tim Kemple. The book includes many interactive features like Tick lists of recommended routes, and was written as a compilation amongst local climbers with the most intimate knowledge of the local cliffs. Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs replaces an older, out-of-date guidebook called Western Sloper, and may be one of the best guidebooks you'll ever see.
Author : Laura Pritchett
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2011-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1571318550
Winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.”—Publishers Weekly On Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land below the Front Range, there are women like Renny who prefer a “little Hell swirled with their Heaven” and men like Ben, her husband, who’s “gotten used to smoothing over Renny’s excesses.” There is a daughter who maybe plays it too safe and a daughter plagued by only “half-wanting” what life has to offer. The ranch has been the site of births and deaths of both cattle and children, as well as moments of amazing harmony and clear vision. “Set in the unpredictable West, these stories remind us that we cannot escape the messiness and obsessions of ordinary life.”—Patricia Henley, author of Hummingbird House “Displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer.”—The Rocky Mountain News “With the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains as backdrop, Pritchett’s spare yet richly evocative stories portray the stark reality of life on a Colorado cattle ranch, where three generations of one family tend the land and animals, devoting and losing themselves to an existence few would understand or choose to follow . . . Regardless of whether the songs she hears are sung by a meadowlark or a jailbird, Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant.”—Booklist “The stories jump back and forth in time, but their message is clear: this family’s ties are as quixotic, fierce, and enduring as the land that binds them together.”—School Library Journal
Author : Jolie Anderson Gallagher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1625842015
Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold routes the town of Julesburg relocated four times in a decade; feuds; Indian fights; outlaws, and even early rodeo history. These stories and events shaped the Colorado territory and are a rich glimpse into the early history of the state.
Author : Aaron Abeyta
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1607323621
Through epistolary essays and poems, American Book Award- and Colorado Book Award-winning author and poet Aaron A. Abeyta captures the soul of the cultural and geographical crossroads of the driest quadrant in the nation, the Colorado headwaters, source to all the rivers in the southwestern and mid-western United States. Originating from and expanding on the themes of twenty-five years of “Headwaters” conferences at Western State Colorado University, these essays and poems embrace the region’s past while also exploring the struggles of a present that seeks a sustainable future for the borderlands that define the very cross-cultural essence of the American experience.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN :
Author : Dave Pegg
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9780972160902
A rock climbing guidebook to western Colorado, including Rifle Mountain Park, the Fortress of Solitude, Puoux, No Name, and Redstone Bouldering.