Colorado: A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

Further Reading

521 Books often include a sources section. It lets authors acknowledge the debts they owe to other writers and lets readers know where to go to learn more. Early editions (1976, 1982, 1994) of Colorado: A History of the Centennial State conformed to the standard long bibliography model. To save space and because much source information had become accessible on the Internet, the 2005 edition included a selection of major books on Colorado published before 1979 and a more extensive compilation of books published since 1979. We selected 1979 as a dividing line because in 1980 Bohdan S. Wynar and Roberta J. Depp’s monumental Colorado Bibliography included nearly 9,200 books, booklets, and dissertations on Colorado, making it unnecessary for us to wade into the pre1979 bibliographical depths. In this edition we have included some of the major pre-1979 works and many of the significant books published since 1979, withemphasisonscholarlycontributions.Tosavespacewehave omitted many possible entries, including many town, neighborhood , and pictorial histories. We have no doubt inadvertently overlookedsometwenty-caratemeralds.Forsuchomissionswe apologize. Fortunately, the Internet gives readers a way to repair ouroversightsandtoeasilyfindadditionalmaterial.TheCenter for Colorado and the West at the Auraria Library in Denver helps keep readers up-to-date on current scholarship with its listofrecentpublicationsandbookreviewsonColoradotopics. A section on the rapidly expanding universe of electronically accessible sources follows the list of traditional print sources. Students and the general public often fail to realize the importance of newspapers and periodical articles in providing Further Reading further reading 522 the foundation for books. The many contributors to the Colorado Magazine, to its successor , Colorado Heritage, and to Essays and Monographs in Colorado History—all published by the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado)—have provided the bedrock upon which much of this text is built. The Journal of the Western Slope, produced at Mesa State College in Grand Junction; the San Luis Valley Historian, edited at Adams State College in Alamosa; the University of Colorado at Denver’s Historical Studies Journal, and numerous other periodicals have also explored Colorado’s past. Some of the articles from those publications are cited in the chapter notes. Many others are included in the America: History and Life database accessible through academic libraries. We regret not being able to acknowledge all the newspaper reporters and columnists, many from the Rocky Mountain News, which in its 150th anniversary year ceased publication in February 2009. Our thanks go to them and to all the other researchers who have laid the foundations for this book. Colorado General Histories and Reference Works Also see the Colorado Guidebooks and the Colorado Territorial Period Histories sections. Athearn, Robert G. The Coloradans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment, and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices, 1859–1989: A Comprehensive Listing of Post Offices, Stations, and Branches. Denver: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990. Benson, Maxine. 1001 Colorado Place Names. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Blecha, Arvid D. Blecha’s Colorado Place Names: A Genealogical and Historical Guide to Colorado Sites. Denver: Colorado Genealogical Society, 2001. Donald R. Elliot and Doris L. [Salmen] Elliot put Blecha’s monumental work into publishable form. Buys, Christian J. Illustrations of Historic Colorado. Ouray, CO: Western Reflections, 2000. See also Buys’s photographic books on Leadville [1997] and Telluride [1999]. Western Reflections has published numerous books on Colorado, with an emphasis on the southwestern section of the state. Ellis, Richard N., and Duane A. Smith. Colorado: A History in Photographs. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991. Griffith, Mel, and Lynnell Rubright. Colorado: A Geography. Boulder: Westview, 1983. Hafen, Leroy R., ed. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State, 4 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1948. The first two volumes are a mine of information. Hall, Frank. History of the State of Colorado, 4 vols. Chicago: Blakely, 1895. Leonard, Stephen J. Trials and Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression, with FSA Photographs. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. further reading 523 National Agricultural Statistics Service and Colorado Department of Agriculture. Colorado Agricultural Statistics 2001 Preliminary–2000 Revised. Lakewood: Colorado Agricultural Statistics Service, 2002. Noel, Thomas J. The Colorado Almanac. Portland, OR: WestWinds, 2001, is filled with unusual information including an entry on the jackalope, “a cross between the jackrabbit and the antelope.” Noel, Thomas J., Paul Mahoney, and Richard Stevens. Historical Atlas of Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 [1994...