Article by Central Staff
Local Authors – January 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
The people who write for Colorado Central also write books, and since we don’t pay them nearly enough for their fine work, we’re glad to encourage you to buy their books. The following list may not be exhaustive, but the idea was to list everyone who’s written for our magazine during this millennium.
Some authors (i.e., Ken Jessen and Duane Smith) are so prolific that we listed only the books that seemed most relevant. Most of these books should be available at any Central Colorado bookstore; if there’s a problem, ask the store to contact us.
Aaron Abeyta
colcha (University Press of Colorado)
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Side Canyons (Five Star)
Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain (High Plains Press)
Red Colt Canyon (Music Mountain Press)
Chas S. Clifton
Ghost Tales of Cripple Creek (Little London Press)
Marcia Darnell
Museums of the San Luis Valley (available at Narrow Gauge Books in Alamosa, $5 postpaid from the author, P.O. Box 491, Alamosa CO 81101.
Dick Dixon
Off the Beaten Path (Little London Press)
Trails among the Columbine: The D & RG’s Calumet Branch and the Turret Mining Area (Sundance)
Eleanor Perry [Harrington]
I Remember Tin Cup (Published by the Author)
Taylor Park, Colorado’s Shangri-La (Published by the Author)
Ken Jessen
Colorado Gunsmoke , True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier (JV Publishing)
Bizarre Colorado, A Legacy of Unusual Events & People (JV Publishing)
Eccentric Colorado. (Pruett)
Ghost Towns Colorado Style: Volume One Northern Colorado (JV Publishing)
Ghost Towns Colorado Style: Volume Two Central Region (JV Publishing)
Ghost Towns Colorado Style: Volume Three Southern Region (JV Publishing)
Jim Ludwig
The Climax Mine: An Old Man Remembers the Way it Was (Pleasant Avenue Nursery)
John Mattingly
Life with Pickle (Mirage Publishing)
Laura McCall
Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West, with Matthew Basso and Dee Garceau (Routledge)
Ed Quillen
Deep in the Heart of the Rockies (Music Mountain Press)
George Sibley
Dragons in Paradise (Mountain Gazette Publishing)
Virginia McConnell Simmons
The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-armed Cross (University Press of Colorado)
The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (University Press of Colorado)
Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park (Pruett)
Upper Arkansas: A Mountain River Valley (Pruett)
Duane Smith
Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado (University Press of Colorado).
Henry M. Teller: Colorado’s Grand Old Man (University Press of Colorado)
Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend (University Press of Colorado)
They Came to Play: A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball (University Press of Colorado)
Steve Voynick
Leadville: A Miner’s Epic (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
Colorado Gold (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
Climax: A History of Colorado’s Climax Molybdenum Mine (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
Colorado Rockhounding (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
New Mexico Rockhounding (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
Yogo: The Great American Sapphire (Mountain Press, Missoula MT)
The Making of a Hardrock Miner (available from the author)
Riding the Higher Range: The History of Colorado’s Coleman Ranch (available through Coleman Natural Products, Inc., Denver)
Hal Walter
Pack Burro Stories (Out There! Publishing, available at the Book Mine).
Ken Wright
Why I’m Against It All: Rants and Reflections (Raven’s Eye Press)
A Wilder Life : Essays from Home (Kivak Press)
