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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

Augusta Tabor – Caroline Bancroft

Bayou Salado – Virginia McConnell Simmons   (2 copies)

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

Black Mountain Cowboys – Paul L. Huntley

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 & Sng; 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 editon – 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 

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

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 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

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

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’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 editon.  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:
            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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