Reference Materials
 (books, records, census, etc.)

  • 1930 Employment 1880: A Social History and Assessment of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Young Adult Conservation Corps

  • Aerial Photos of Park County  1938 (north of Jefferson) – Pike National Forest

  • Alma Mining

  • American Blue Book of Biography

  • Assessors Original Patent Atlas (8.2mb pdf)

  • Augusta Tabor – Caroline Bancroft

  • Bayou Salado – Virginia McConnell Simmons   (2 copies)

  • Bibliography and Resource Guide - Park County’s Cultural History

  • Bits and Pieces of History along the 285 Corridor – Harold Warren

  • Black Mountain Cowboys – Paul L. Huntley

  • Buckskin Cemetery Survey - 2010

  • Buffalo Harvest – Frank Meyer

  • Business Directories (Park Co. only) 1878, 1881, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1902, 1912, 1918, 1922, 1937, 1950

  • C & S High Line Memories and Then Some – Tom and Denise Klinger

  • C & S NG; the Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge – Mallory Ferrell

  • Cavalcade of Railroads in Central Colorado from 1871 to 1965 – George G. Everett

  • Cattle Cavalcade in Central Colorado – George G. Everett

  • Cemeteries (lists of burials by name & cemetery) 1976 – Harold & Lenore Warren

  • Census: 1870 Colorado Territory, 1880 U. S.

  • Chasing Butterflies in the Colorado Rockies with Theodore Mead in 1871 – Grace Brown, ed.

  • Charles Craig: Pikes Peak Indian Painter – Nelson A. Rieger

  • Colorado:  Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges and Health and Pleasure Resorts.  A Tourist’s Guide to the Rocky Mountains.  Second edition – Frank Fossett

  • Colorado As I Saw It – Harry A. Epperson

  • Colorado Families: A Territorial Heritage – Colorado Genealogical Society

  • Colorado History – Carl Ubbelohde    (2 copies)

  • Colorado Magazine Indexes: 1923–1948, 1923–1982, 1949-1960

  • Colorado Magazine Issues:  1964 (winter),1969 (spring),1972 (summer), 1973 (winter), 1974 (spring), 1976 (spring, summer, fall, winter), 1977 (spring, summer, winter), 1978 (spring/summer, fall, winter)

  • Colorado Marriages 1858 – 1939  (CD)

  • Colorado Quiz Bag – E. Richard Churchill

  • Colorado State Archives - Park County Courts and Clerk Listings

  • Colorado Year Books:  1937-1938, 1939-1940, 1941-1942, 1945-1947, 1956-1958, 1959-1961 (2 copies), 1962-1964 (2 copies)

  • Colorado’s Colorful Characters – Gladys R. Bueler

  • Come Along to South Park and Florissant with Lakes, Scudder and Bowditch August 1877; a Trek into Colorado History – Beth Simmons

  • Como Capers – Irving E. August

  • Como Historic Survey

  • Coroner Inquest - Oswald B. Schwartz, 1909 (New)

  • Coroner Inquest Records, Park County - 1872-1913 (New)

  • Coroners Record (1 vol.) 1873-1963

  • C. T.; Sage of the Rockies – Charles B. Roth

  • Court and Clerk Listings - Colorado State Archives

  • Cultural Resource Inventory of Forest Highway 81 (Tarryall Road) by Jonathan Horn

  • Cultural Resource Survey of Highway 9

  • Decree of the District Court of Fremont County, Colorado

  • Deer Valley Association – Robert Woodward

  • Diary – Willia V. Johnson  Alma, Colorado  1920

  • Directory of Early Photographers 1853 through 1900 – Opal Harber

  • Doin’ Time in Fairplay – Linda Bjorklund

  • DSP&PRR Postal Markings

  • Echoes of Como, Colorado 1879-1973 – Mary Dyer

  • Essays and Monographs in Colorado History (1991, Chinese in Colorado)

  • Family Histories: Almgren, Collard, Hepburn, Hooke, Horn, Link, Spindle

  • Fairplay Cemetery & Ranger Station Cemetery – Joe & Lucille Brown, Shirley Murphy

  • Fairplay Cook Book - Compiled by The Ladies of the Fairplay Aid, c. 1923

  • Fairplay Mining Claims  1860-1862

  • From Kansas to the Matchless: a Tabor Story 1857-1880 – Ruby G. Williamson

  • Game and Fish Management Hand Book (2 vols.) – Gilbert N. Hunter

  • George L. Shoup and the Civil War in Colorado – Michael Crosby

  • Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies – Robert L. Brown     (2 copies)

  • Ghosts of Park County – John K. Aldrich

  • Goin’ Railroading – Margaret Coel, as told by Sam Speas

  • Gold, Guns, and Grass South Park and Fairplay, Colorado – Katharine F. Nutt

  • Gold in the Gravel; a History of Gold Mining in Colorado – Linda Bjorklund

  • Great Gates; the Story of the Rocky Mountain Passes – Marshall Sprague

  • Guffey:  100 Years of Memories – Helen Cahill    (2 copies)

  • Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps – Perry Eberhart    (2 copies)

  • Hartsel: History of a Town – Linda Bjorklund

  • Historic Contexts – Front Range Research Associates

  • Historic Sites in Park County - Harold Warren

  • History of Colorado Biographical vols. 4,5

  • History of Colorado Illustrated vol. 2

  • History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado

  • History of the Famous Mosquito Pass – Norma L. Flynn

  • Homestead Records

  • Iron Rails and Iron Men (Boreas Pass, cassette)

  • Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains – Isabella L. Bird

  • Liquor Licenses, 1862-1883

  • Maps (see separate list)

  • Marriages 1881 to 1950 – Lucille Brown

  • Microfilm Records

  • Midland Route; a Colorado Midland Guide and Data Book – Edward M. McFarland

  • Mineral Belt  (vol. 1 & II) – David Digerness

  • Mines of Colorado – Ovando James Hollister

  • Mining Among the Clouds:  The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado’s Silver Boom - Harvey N. Gardiner

  • Muttering Machines to Laser Beams; a History of Mountain Bell – Herbert J. Hackenburg, Jr.

  • Obituary Database

  • Old Mose – James E. Perkins

  • Oral Histories

  • Park County Census 1860 thru 1920   (CD) – Joseph Brown

  • Park County Colorado: Where History Is Still Alive – Linda Balough

  • Park County Dist. RE-2 Survey

  • Park County Symposium Proceedings: August 13-15, 2004

  • Park County Symposium Proceedings  2007

  • Park County’s Cultural History:  A Bibliography and Resource Guide – Park County Historic Preservation Commission

  • Passes of Colorado; an Encyclopedia of Watershed Divides – Ed Helmuth & Gloria Helmuth

  • Patent Atlas

  • Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado

  • Post Offices  1859-1989

  • Pre-emption Books

  • Representative Women of Colorado.  Second edition.  1914

  • The Rockies – David Lavender

  • Rocky Mountain Letters 1869 – Professor William H.

  • Rocky Mountain Mining Camps – Duane A. Smith

  • Rocky Mountain News Weekly microfilm: April 23, 1859 through December 30, 1874

  • Salt Works Historic Structure Assessment (3 vols.) – Gary Higgins & Jackie Powell

  • Sherwood, Rupert – papers, letters, articles

  • Short & Informal Early Days History of the Town of Fairplay – Wallis & Morse

  • Silverheels: the Biography of the Legend 1999 2nd edition 2004 – Phyllis Hyland & Elizabeth McVicker

  • Slaghts/Fairville/Shawnee, Colorado – Gary R. Goodson

  • South Park Line: a Concise History (Colorado Rail Annual No. 12) –Chappell, Richardson & Hauck

  • South Park Symposium Proceedings - Index 1999-2013

  • South Park Symposium Proceedings:
                August 13, 14, 15, 1999
                June 23, 24, 25, 2000
                August 9, 10, 11, 2002

  • South Park Winter – Irving E. August

  • Special Collections (see separate list)

  • St. Alban’s Episcopal Church Record Book  Aug. 1939 through Feb. 1942

  • Stampede to Timberline – Muriel Sibell Wolle

  • Strew of Wonder; the Story of the Bristlecone Pine at Windy Ridge, Colorado – Roberta Fiester

  • Tabor Family Album

  • Tarryall Mountains and the Puma Hills – Midge Harbour

  • Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado – Robert Ormes

  • Tract Records (microfiche)

  • Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots – Caroline Bancroft

  • West of Pike’s Peak – Everett Bair

  • West of the Peak – Jack Cahill

  • U. S. Department of Agriculture Yearbooks 1898, 1921

  • Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico – Virginia McConnell Simmons

  • Western Yesterdays:  Vols. I, II, IV, V, X, XII – Forest Crossen

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