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Local History Room Update

Over the past five months, we have made good progress in rehoming our local history collection. We have successfully moved significant portions of our historical archives to regional museums and research libraries where they will be preserved and maintained.

Moved to the Luther Bean Museum:

  • The Domínguez-Escalante journal : | their expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776 / by: Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre
  • The cañons of Colorado : | from photographs by W.H. Jackson / by Jackson, William Henry
  • The Peter Hansen Family History / by Hansen, Julie
  • San Luis Valley Pioneers  
  • Pageant of the pioneers : | the veritable art of William H. Jackson, "picture maker of the Old West" / by Jackson, Clarence S.
  • Platoro, Colorado; | mining camp and resort town. By Feitz, Leland.
  • Colorado : | 1870-2000 / by Jackson, William Henry
  • Conejos County : | a quick history of Colorado's land of many contrasts / by Feitz, Leland
  • Old Fort Garland by Colorado Historical Society of Colorado

Moved to The Crestone Historical Museum:

  • Voice of empire : | a centennial sketch of The Denver post / by Hornby, William H.
  • The Episcopal Church in Colorado, 1860-1963 / by Breck, Allen duPont
  • Spanish & Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado
  • Colorado post offices 1859-1989: | a comprehensive listing of post offices, stations and branches / by Bauer, William H
  • Telephone directory : | Alamosa, Antonito, Blanca, Center, Creede, Del Norte, Hooper, La Jara, Moffat, Monte Vista, Saguache, San Acacio / | [periodical]
  • People of the valley / by Waters, Frank
  • Hammond's new supreme world atlas 
  • Hammond new contemporary world atlas
  • Platoro, Colorado; | mining camp and resort town / by Feitz, Leland
  • Who's who in Western livestock industry : | a collection of biographies of the current leaders in the Western livestock industry 
  • Who's who in Colorado : | a biographical record of Colorado's leaders in business, professional and public life
  • Who's who in Colorado 1958 : | a biographical record of Colorado's outstanding civic, business, professional, religious, labor and government leaders
  • To Colorado's restless ghosts / by Hunt, Inez
  • Newspaper indexes : | a location and subject guide for researchers vol. 1 / by Milner, Anita Cheek
  • Newspaper indexes : | a location and subject guide for researchers vol. 2 / by Milner, Anita Cheek
  • Newspaper indexes : | a location and subject guide for researchers vol. 3 /  by Milner, Anita Cheek
  • The Shellabarger family and allied lines / by Bussard, Carmen Miesen
  • Encyclopedia of American family names / by Robb, H. Amanda
  • 1870 Colorado Territory census index
  • The Leadville story: brief story 1860-1960 / by Coquoz, Rene L.
  • Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado vol. 1 
  • Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado vol. 2
  • Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado vol. 3
  • Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado vol. 4
  • Dictionary of American family names vol. 1
  • Dictionary of American family names vol. 2
  • Dictionary of American family names vol. 3
  • Community culture : | life north of the Rio Grande 1870-1976
  • The Indians of the Pike's Peak Region, | Including an account of the battle of Sand Creek, and of occurrences in El Paso County, Colorado, during the war with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, in 1864 and 1868 / by Howbert, Irving
  • Western yesterdays vol. 1 / Crossen, Forest
  • Western yesterdays vol. 2 / Crossen, Forest
  • Western yesterdays vol. 3 / Crossen, Forest
  • Western yesterdays vol. 4 / Crossen, Forest
  • Western yesterdays vol. 5 / Crossen, Forest
  • Coloradan 1964 /
  • Coloradan 1965 /
  • Pioneers of the San Juan country vol. 2 /by  Daughters of the American Revolution, Sarah Platt Decker Chapter
  • Pioneers of the San Juan country vol. 3/ by Daughters of the American Revolution, Sarah Platt Decker Chapter
  • Pioneers of the San Juan country vol. 4 / by Daughters of the American Revolution, Sarah Platt Decker Chapter
  • Nuggets from Chalk Creek / by Humbeutel, Lacy
  • Highlights of Colorado history for non-historians / by Rickard, Kent
  • Hooper and Mosca : | Colorado history / by McAllister, Melvin
  • San Luis Valley place names / by Kessler, Ron
  • This is Colorado : | special centennial magazine section of the Denver Post.
  • Life north of the Rio Grande : | community reflections, 1870-1976 vol. 1
  • Life north of the Rio Grande : | community affairs, 1870-1976 vol. 2
  • Public domain in New Mexico 1854-1891 / by Westphall, Victor
  • Bones in a boxcar : | The investigation of Snippy the horse / by Doty, Herman
  • Stalking the herd : | unraveling the cattle mutilation mystery / by O'Brien, Christopher
  • Comprehensive Conservation Plan : | San Luis Valley, National Wildlife Refuge Complex /
  • Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement : | San Luis Valley, National Wildlife Refuge Complex /
  • Greater Sand Dunes interagency fire management plan : | Environmental assessment : Assessment of effect
  • The Last Ranch: A Colorado community and the coming desert / by Bingham, Sam
  • San Luis Valley Office: | geothermal leasing RMP amendment EA
  • Draft Environmental Assessment of Proposed Oil and Gas Exploration: | Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Saguache County, Colorado
  • Draft Environmental Assessment of Planned Gas and Oil Exploration: | Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Saguache County, Colorado
  • Final Environmental Assessment of Planned Gas and Oil Exploration: | Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Saguache County, Colorado
  • Mining the summit : | Colorado's Ten Mile District, 1860-1960 / by Dempsey, Stanley
  • Otto Perry : | master railroad photographer / by Albi, Charles
  • Alamosa / Salida : | and the Valley Line / | compiled by Richard Dorman
  • The Moffat Road / by Bollinger, Edward Taylor
  • Lies, legends & lore of the San Juans : | (and a few true tales) / by Henn, Roger
  • Colorado water resources basic data release no. 22 : | hydrological data for the San Luis Valley, Colorado
  • Geology of the Pikes Peak region, Colorado / by Hubbard, Richard L.
  • Dinosaur lake : | the story of the Purgatoire Valley dinosaur tracksite area / by Lockley, M. G.
  • Final supplement to final environmental statement : | San Luis Valley Project- Colorado Closed Basin Division
  • Colorado's bountiful San Luis Valley / by Abney, Toby
  • Buildings of Colorado / by Noel, Thomas J.
  • Fourteen thousand feet : | a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks / by Hart, John Lathrop Jerome
  • Longs Peak its story and a guide for climbing it / by Nesbit, Paul W.
  • Legends of the Valley: | poems / by Hamilton, Fern Jensen
  • Blue crystals / by Welsh, Dan
  • The fourteeners, Colorado's great mountains / by Eberhart, Perry
  • F. A. McKinney's San Luis Valley Directory, 1913-1914 : | including city directories of Alamosa and Monte Vista, also all the towns, post offices and rural routes in Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande and Saguache Counties...also a complete classified business directory of the whole valley.
  • Guide to the Colorado mountains
  • Valley of the dunes : | Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve / by Rozinski, Robert. 
  • This is Vail. 
  • Great Sand Dunes : | the shape of the wind / by Trimble, Stephen
  • The unsinkable Mrs. Brown / Bancroft, Caroline
  • Kit Carson's own story of his life : | as dictated to Col. and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 1856-57, and never before published / Carson, Kit
  • Kit Carson's own story of his life : | as dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters about 1856-57, and never before published /  Carson, Kit 
  • Faster than a deer : | an autobiography of an American athlete / Guthrie, Alma R. 
  • Silver queen : | the fabulous story of Baby Doe Tabor / Bancroft, Caroline
  • Colorado outdoor living, eighty-plus years / Wilkinson, Ernest
  • Drillin', loadin', and firin' : | in Crestone with the "old timers!" / Sisemore, Gladys
  • Living on the Spine : | a woman's life in the Sangre De Cristo mountains / Nealson, Christina
  • Southern Colorado : | O.T. Davis collection / Butler, Michael Ray
  • Seven keys to the Rocky Mountains / Pearl, Richard M
  • Trail to disaster : | the route of John C. Frémont's fourth expedition from Big Timbers, Colorado, through the San Luis Valley, to Taos, New Mexico / Richmond, Patricia Joy
  • The great gates : | the story of the Rocky Mountain passes / Sprague, Marshall
  • Zebulon Montgomery Pike entered the San Luis Valley via Medano Pass January 27, 1807 / Cooper, Jack
  • Tracking ghost railroads in Colorado : | a five-part guide to abandoned and scenic lines / Ormes, Robert M. 
  • Land of the blue sky people : | a story of the San Luis Valley / Bean, Luther E. 
  • Atlas of Colorado ghost towns / Boyd, Leanne C. 
  • Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies / Brown, Robert L.
  • Fremont's fatal fourth expedition (1848-1849) : | a modern trail guide / Bryan, Stuart R.
  • Colorado history now | newsletter of the Colorado Historical Society 1998 / | [periodical]
  • Museums of the San Luis Valley / Darnell, Marcia
  • Guide to the Colorado ghost towns and mining camps / Eberhart, Perry
  • Treasure tales of the Rockies / Eberhart, Perry
  • Abandoned southern Colorado : | and the San Luis Valley / Eberle, Jeff D.
  • Colorado place names : | communities, counties, peaks, passes : with historical lore and facts, plus a pronunciation guide / Eichler, Geo. R. 
  • Colorado : | its gold and silver mines, farms and stock ranges, and health and pleasure resorts / Fossett, Frank 
  • Empire and the Berthoud Pass / Harrison, Louise 
  • Postmarks and places / Harlan, George
  • Historical encyclopedia of Colorado Vol 1
  • Historical encyclopedia of Colorado Vol 2
  • The crest of the continent : | a record of a summer's ramble in the Rocky Mountains and beyond / Ingersoll, Ernest
  • Shining mountains : | Colorado / McMechen, Edgar C. 
  • Colorado : | heritage of the highest state / Metcalf, Fay D.
  • Old Spanish Trail : | draft national historic trail feasibility study and environmental assessment ; New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California
  • San Luis Valley illustrated / | with its public buildings, summer resorts, residences, business blocks, manufactores and citizens / Pelton, A. R. 
  • Redstone Castle
  • The Upper Arkansas: | A Mountain River Valley / Simmons, Virginia McConnell
  • This is Colorado : | special centennial magazine section of the Denver Post. 
  • Wet Mountain Valley / Turk, Gayle 
  • Life explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont / Upham, Charles Wentworth
  • Stampede to timberline : | the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado / Wolle, Muriel Sibell
  • The WPA guide to 1930s Colorado
  • Mesa Verde National Park : | the first 100 years
  • The Strater Hotel story : | a story of the old landmark of the Southwest / Jarvis, Marion 
  • Colorado's San Luis Valley : a pictorial history
  • Looking for the past : | a pictorial of artifacts : volume I / Harlan, Noel
  • A gold camp called Summitville / Huston, Richard C. 
  • Alma : | the magazine of the San Luis Valley
  • Montville trail
  • The San Luis Valley : | land of the six-armed cross / Simmons, Virginia McConnell
  • Sea of sand : | a history of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve / Geary, Michael M. 
  • Famous Aspen : | its fabulous past, its lively present / Bancroft, Caroline
  • Bayou Salado : | the story of South Park / Simmons, Virginia McConnell
  • The Rocky Mountain National Park / Mills, Enos A. 
  • Ghosts of Park County: A guide to the ghost towns and mining camps of Park County, Colorado / Aldrich, John K. 
  • Ghosts of the Sangre de Cristo area : | a guide to the ghost towns and mining camps of the greater Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado / Aldrich, John K. 
  • A quick history of Ute Pass / Pettit, Jan
  • Old Spanish Trail North Branch and its travelers / Kessler, Ronald
  • Chipeta : | queen of the Utes, a biography / Becker, Cynthia S. 
  • Ancient Denvers : | scenes from the past 300 million years of the Colorado Front Range / Johnson, Kirk R. 

Moved to Nielsen Library 

  • Return of the corn mothers / Fajardo, Renee
  • Tradiciones de Valle : | folklore collected in the San Luis Valley / Everts, Dana
  • The Spanish language in New Mexico and southern Colorado / Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio
  • Lizzie Beaudrie : | dance hall girl 1882-1960 / Beaudrie, Lizzie
  • This soldier life : | the diaries of Romine H. Ostrander, 1863 and 1865, in Colorado Territory / Ostrander, Romine H.
  • Tom Tobin and the Bloody Espinosas : | the story of America's first serial killers and the man who stopped them / Scott, Bob
  • Hank Wiescamp story : | the authorized biography of the legendary Colorado horseman / Holmes, Frank
  • Monte Vista downtown historic district
  • Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church Conejos, Colorado : | oldest parish of Colorado / Stauter, Patrick C. 
  • History of San Luis Valley / | Madge L. Perks 
  • Our voices raise : | volume two of the story of Adams State College of Colorado 1950-1966 / McAdow, Beryl
  • From crested peaks : | the story of Adams State College of Colorado 1950-1966 / McAdow, Beryl
  • Meeker : | the story of the Meeker Massacre and the Thornburgh Battle, September 29, 1879 / Werner, Fred H. 
  • Bachelor Colorado : | history of a San Juan mining ghost town / Harbert, Charles Armon
  • Francisco Fort and the early days of La Veta 1862-1876 / Christofferson, Nancy
  • Adobe kingdom : | New Mexico 1598-1958 as experienced by the families Lucero de Godoy y Baca / Lucero, Donald L. 
  • Los Alamos before the bomb and other stories / Pearce, Charles S. 
  • The Pueblo Revolt : | the secret rebellion that drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest / Roberts, David
  • Searching for Chipeta : | the story of a Ute and her people / Krudwig, Vickie Leigh
  • The Colorado Doctrine : | water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier / Schorr, David

Moved to the San Luis Valley Museum

  • The Penitentes of the Southwest. / Weigle, Marta
  • Take up your mission : | Mormon colonizing along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900 / Peterson, Charles S. 
  • Enduring legacies : | ethnic histories and cultures of Colorado
  • Seasonal farm labor in the San Luis Valley / Carlson, Alvar W. 
  • Historic tours : | the Denver Mint : the story of the mint from the gold rush to today / Eitemiller, David
  • A cross-cultural study of individual attitudes toward natural resources and natural resources development, San Luis Valley, Colorado / Earle, Janet Louise
  • United States of America vs. Alamosa County : | voting rights 
  • City of Alamosa comprehensive plan 1997
  • Alamosa, Colorado : | a community analysis / Skinner, Mark F. 
  • Outlaw tales of Colorado : | true stories of Colorado's notorious robbers, rustlers, and bandits / Murphy, Jan Elizabeth
  • Season of terror : | the Espinosas in central Colorado, March-October 1863 / Price, Charles F.
  • La sociedad : | guardians of Hispanic culture along the Rio Grande / Rivera, José A.
  • The Gilpin Gold Tram : | Colorado's unique narrow-gauge / Ferrell, Mallory Hope
  • Railroads and the Rockies : | a record of lines in and near Colorado / Ormes, Robert M. 
  • Railroads and railroad towns in New Mexico
  • Chama / Cumbres : | with a little chili
  • Narrow gauge news : | Colorado rail annual no. 21 / Richardson, Robert W. 
  • Cripple Creek railroads : | a quick history of the great gold camp's railroads / Feitz, Leland
  • Locomotive 315 : | the lives, times, and rebirth of an 1895 steam engine / Niederauer, George F. 
  • Narrow gauge byways in the San Juans : | private cars, Lake City, Creede
  • The collected Colorado rail annual : | reprinted from issues numbers one through seven
  • Trails Through Time 
  • Grave images : | San Luis Valley / Hettinga, Kathy T. 
  • A tortilla is like life : | food and culture in the San Luis valley of Colorado / Counihan, Carole
  • A dictionary of New Mexico and southern Colorado Spanish / Cobos, Rubén
  • Colorado water plan 2023: | 2022 draft
  • Birds of Colorado, vol. I & 2/ Bailey, Alfred M.
  • Birds of Colorado, vol. I & 2/ Bailey, Alfred M. 
  • The wandering gene and the Indian princess : | race, religion, and DNA / Wheelwright, Jeff
  • S. L. V. gardening tips / Couture, Joan 
  • Ranches of Colorado / Fielder, John
  • Riding, roping, and roses : | Colorado's women ranchers / Sammons, Judy Buffington
  • A palette of Rocky Mountain cuisine | classic recipes from the historic hotels of the Rocky Mountain West / Feinberg, John D. 
  • More across Colorado : | [recipes and recollections : more than a cookbook] 
  • From this earth : | the ancient art of Pueblo pottery / Peckham, Stewart
  • Doorways of New Mexico / Vorhees, D. Lawrey 
  • ¡Viva la tradición! : | premio hilos culturales, 2000-2012 / Martínez, Herman
  • The Tabor Opera House : | a captivating history / Furman, Evelyn E. Livingston
  • Lakes and trails of the Conejos : | a complete trail guide to the south San Juan Wilderness / Ross, Dick
  • Ortega Middle School [yearbook] : | 2006 - 2007
  • Ranch memories at thirty below : | reflections in rhyme / Brandt, Dorothy Hinson
  • Misty trails : | the San Luis Valley in song and folklore / Newcomb, Effie Aldrich
  • Collected poetry of Clarence Earle Moullette : | 1897-1972, an anthology / Moullette, John B. 
  • Southwestern lore | [periodical]
  • Place names in Colorado : | why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin/ Dawson, John Frank
  • The majestic fourteeners ... Colorado's highest / Crouter, George. 
  • This is Colorado / 
  • Ticket to Toltec : | a mile by mile guide for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad / Osterwald, Doris B. 
  • Soapy Smith's Creede :"The Silver Camp In 1892" / Feitz, Leland
  • Pueblos of the Rio Grande : | a visitor's guide / Gibson, Daniel
  • Halfbreed : | the remarkable true story of George Bent : caught between the worlds of the Indian and the white man / Halaas, David Fridtjof 
  • A flame of pure fire : | Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s / Kahn, Roger
  • United Nations memories / Sloan, Blaine
  • The lost pathfinder, Zebulon Montgomery Pike. / Hollon, W. Eugene 
  • Timeless caravan : | the story of a Spanish-American family / Chavez, Thomas E.
  • Pioneers of Center / Brownell, John
  • Unique ghost towns and mountain spots / Bancroft, Caroline
  • Kokopelli : | Casanova of the cliff dwellers : the hunchbacked flute player / Young, John V. 
  • Women of the upper Rio Grande, Beartown to Creede : | memories from 1920 through 1960 / McClenny, Laura
  • The Bonanza West : | the story of the Western mining rushes, 1848-1900. / Greever, William S. 
  • San Luis / Maestas, Dana
  • Land of contrast : | a history of southeast Colorado / Athearn, Frederic J. 
  • Six racy madams of Colorado / Bancroft, Caroline 
  • Colorado's lost gold mines and buried treasure / Bancroft, Caroline
  • Old forts of southern Colorado / Beckner, Raymond M. 
  • An archaeological inventory in the Pike's | Stockade Area, Conejos County, Colorado/ Kevin Black
  • Vanishing trails of romance : | legendary and historical tales and events gleaned along moccasin-winged trails of Aztec and Indian and the blazed trails of explorer and pioneer settler in enchanting Colorado / Boyer, Warren E. 
  • Atlas of Colorado ghost towns vol. 1 / Boyd, Leanne C. 
  • Historical guide to Colorado : | a pilgrimage over the old trails to outstanding sites and landmarks / Brigham, Lillian (Rice) 
  • Colorado history (Alamosa) 2006 / | [periodical] 
  • Colorado history now | newsletter of the Colorado Historical Society 1998 / | [periodical]
  • Colorado magazine | VOL.XIII NO. 4, 1936 [periodical]
  • Colorado magazine | VOL.XLV NO. 2 [periodical]
  • Colorado magazine | VOL.XLV NO. 4 [periodical]
  • Olden times in Colorado / Davis, Carly Channing
  • La Gente: | Hispano History and Life in Colorado 
  • They all Came to Pueblo : | a Social History / Dodds, Joanne West
  • Legends and tales of the Rockies / Ellis, Amanda M. 
  • Essays in Colorado history / | 1994; #14 
  • Essays in Colorado history / | 1994; #14 
  • Cattle cavalcade in central Colorado, / Everett, George G. 
  • Folks and fortunes : | saga of the San Luis Valley in Colorado. 
  • Gold nuggets of Colorado history : | authentic short stories of the early settlers.
  • Mountain mysteries: the Ouray odyssey / Gregory, Marvin
  • Hispanic Colorado : | four centuries history and heritage
  • The Hispanic contribution to the State of Colorado
  • Colorado 1870-2000 II : | historical landscape photography / Jackson, William Henry
  • Archaeological investigations at the Ken-Caryl Ranch, Colorado / Johnson, Ann Mary
  • Land of adoption / McAdow, Beryl
  • Citadel on the Santa Fe Trail / Murray, Robert A.
  • Making of Colorado / Parsons, Eugene
  • A bridge to yesterday : | an early history of Monte Vista, Colorado / Riggenbach, Emma M.
  • Pleas and petitions : | Hispano culture and legislative conflict in territorial Colorado / Sanchez, Virginia
  • The San Luis Valley Historian 1996 | [periodical]
  • Valley of the cranes : | exploring Colorado's San Luis Valley / Simmons, Virginia McConnell
  • Southwestern Lore (Alamosa) 1944 / | [periodical] 
  • 100 years in Colorado's oldest parish / Stauter, Patrick C. 
  • Colorado settlers and Native Americans / Susienka, Kristen
  • Sketch of Early Days on the Purgatory. / Taylor, Morris F. 
  • From Fort Massachusetts to the Rio Grande : | a history of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico from 1850 - 1900 / Thomas, Douglas B. 
  • Pioneers, peddlers, and tsadikim : | the story of the Jews in Colorado / Uchill, Ida Libert
  • Old names and golden splendors / Walther, Lou
  • Echo in the Valley / Walrath, Ellen F. 
  • Pioneering in the San Juan : | personal reminiscences of work done in southwestern Colorado during the "great San Juan excitement" / Darley, George M. 
  • Ghost trails to ghost towns / Hunt, Inez
  • La Vereda : | a Trail Through Time / Colville, Ruth Marie
  • Century of medicine in Leadville, Colorado 1860-1966 / Coquoz, Rene L. 
  • The Antlers : | a quick history of Colorado Springs' historic hotel / Feitz, Leland
  • Mormon colonization of the San Luis Valley, Colorado 1878-1900 / Flower, Judson Harold
  • People of El Valle : | a history of the Spanish colonials in the San Luis Valley / Tushar, Olibama López
  • The people of El Valle : | a history of the Spanish settlers in the San Luis Valley / Tushar, Olibama López
  • Valley reflections : | a history and stories of the San Luis Valley / Petty, Hazel Bean
  • The San Luis Valley : | a pictorial history of people, places, events
  • People of the Valley : | a history of the Spanish colonials of the San Luis Valley / Tushar, Olibama López
  • La Garita / White, Frank A. 
  • Alamosa County : | a century of pictures
  • Alamosa : | the first 125 years, a photo history
  • Alamosa : | the San Luis Valley's big city / Feitz, Leland
  • Alamosa : | the San Luis Valley's big city / Feitz, Leland
  • Life In Hooper / McAllister, Melvin
  • Creede, Colorado history-- : | insights and views through postcards and photographs / Harbert, Charles Armon
  • The homesteaders of the upper Rio Grande / LaFont, John
  • Mountain tales, faded tracks, and hi-jinks : | wild and wooly and full of fleas in the early days of Western Colorado / McGraw, L. R. 
  • Frontier eyewitness : | diary of John Lawrence, 1867-1908 / Lawrence, John. 
  • Forgotten Cucharenos of the lower valley / Sanchez, Virginia
  • Colorado in perspective, 1999 : | a statistical view of the "Centennial State" / Morgan, Kathleen O'Leary 
  • MiniAlbum : | Taos, N.M. / Burke, James T. 
  • New Mexico's stormy history : | true stories of early Spanish colonial settlers and the Mestas/Maestas families / Maestas, Elmer Eugene
  • Fort Union : | National Monument, New Mexico / Utley, Robert Marshall
  • The Navajo and the Long Walk : | for the Fort Garland Museum and the Colorado Historical Society
  • Anza's 1779 Comanche campaign / Kessler, Ron 
  • Sand and Smoke: | a mile by mile guide for the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad / Osterwald, Doris B. 
  • Saving the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad / Wilson, Spencer

Available for Checkout at the Alamosa Public Library

  • Rocky Mountain religion : | a history of Sacred Heart Parish, Alamosa, Colorado
  • Treasured Jack family memories / Johnson, Sadie Jack 
  • Colorado families, a territorial heritage / Colorado Genealogical Society.
  • All-in-one basic to advanced guide to genealogy & ancestry history research / Berry, Kimberly L.
  • Basic heraldry / Friar, Stephen.
  • Simple heraldry : | cheerfully illustrated / Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Iain,
  • Heraldry in America / Zieber, Eugene.
  • Kit Carson and his three wives : | a family history / Simmons, Marc.
  • Mormon colonization of the San Luis Valley, Colorado 1878-1900 / Flower, Judson Harold.
  • Brothers of light : | the Penitentes of the Southwest / Henderson, Alice Corbin
  • Rocky Mountain religion : | a history of Sacred Heart Parish, Alamosa, Colorado / Carter, Carrol Joe.
  • The Colorado Labor Wars : | Cripple Creek, 1903-1904 : a centennial commemoration
  • The Taylor Ranch war : | property rights die / Johnston, Dick.
  • Man and resources in the Middle Rio Grande Valley / Harper, Allan G.
  • Riding the higher range: | the story of Colorado's Coleman Ranch and Coleman Natural Beef. Voynick, Stephen M.
  • San Luis Valley district judges : | 2nd edition 1861-2024 / Ogburn, Robert W.
  • Legal reflections : | a memoir / Ogburn, Robert W.
  • San Luis Valley district attorneys / Ogburn, Robert W.
  • Silver San Juan: | the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. Ferrell, Mallory Hope.
  • Rio Grande along the Rio Grande / Griswold, P. R.
  • Colorado's loneliest railroad : | the San Luis Southern / Griswold, P. R.
  • Colorado's loneliest railroad : | the San Luis Southern / Griswold, P. R.
  • Rio Grande's La Veta Pass route : | gateway to the San Luis Valley / Rasmussen, Stephen.
  • Rio Grande narrow gauge / Norwood, John B.
  • Rio Grande's La Veta Pass route : | gateway to the San Luis Valley / Rasmussen, Stephen.
  • Rio Grande memories / Norwood, John B.
  • A bumpy ride : | a history of stagecoaching in Colorado / Burke, Marril Lee.
  • The San Luis Valley storytellers / Wolf, Priscilla
  • A Colorado book of the dead / Rippeteau, Bruce Estes.
  • Old Mose : | the king of the grizzlies / Perkins, James E.
  • The architecture and art of early Hispanic Colorado / Adams, Robert
  • Stitching rites/ MacAulay, Suzanne P.
  • Ski pioneers : | Ernie Blake, his friends, and the making of Taos Ski Valley : as told to / Richards, Rick,
  • Peace flows from the sky / Schutz, Susan Polis.
  • Discovering Los Fuertes / Sanchez, James 
  • Messages from the Hidden Lake, vol. I : | Literary & Art Collection of the Southern Peaks Public Library
  • Messages from the Hidden Lake, vol. II : | Literary & Art Collection of the Southern Peaks Public Library
  • Messages from the Hidden Lake, vol. III : | Literary & Art Collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake , vol. iv : | literary & art collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake , vol. v : | literary & art collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake , vol. vi: | literary & art collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 8 : | literary & art collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 9 : | literary & art collection of the Alamosa Public Library
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 10 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Messages from the hidden lake , vol. 11 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 13 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 14 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Messages from the hidden lake, vol. 14 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Messages from the hidden lake , vol. 15 : | Alamosa Public Library literary & art collection
  • Tiny Hinsdale of the silvery San Juan / Wright, Carolyn
  • Ticket to Toltec : | a mile by mile guide for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad / Osterwald, Doris B.
  • A Taos mosaic : | portrait of a New Mexico village / Morrill, Claire.
  • A passion for life : | Ruth Marie Colville / Virden, Jo Ann.
  • The life and loves of Bonney Lopez : | an inspiring story of determination and faith growing up in the San Luis Valley / Lopez, Bonifacio.
  • Zebulon Montgomery Pike : | pathfinder and patriot / Carter, Harvey L.
  • Conejos country / Mead, Frances Harvey.
  • Centennial Colorado  | Its exciting story Athearn, Robert G.
  • Across the northern frontier : | Spanish explorations in Colorado / Carson, Phil.
  • Essays in Colorado history / | 1994; #14
  • Stony Pass : | the tumbling and impetuous trail / Kindquist, Cathy E.
  • Rugged life in the Rockies / La Font, Don,
  • Land of adoption / McAdow, Beryl.
  • Our voices raise : | volume two of the story of Adams State College of Colorado 1950-1966 / McAdow, Beryl.
  • From crested peaks : | the story of Adams State College of Colorado 1950-1966 / McAdow, Beryl.
  • Hardships & Hope: | fascinating frontier women of northern Colorado Mefford, Jack.
  • The San Luis Valley :  | Land of the Six-Armed Cross / Simmons, Virginia McConnell
  • "To spare no pains" : | Zebulon Montgomery Pike and his 1806-1807 Southwest expedition : a bicentennial commemoration
  • My home at present : | life in the mine boarding houses in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado / Vendl, Mark A.
  • Cornerstones and communities : | a historical overview of Colorado's county seats and courthouses / Virden, William L.
  • Colorado's first portrait; | scenes by early artists. Westermeier, Clifford P.
  • Tough trails and true tales : | fifty years on a San Luis Valley ranch / Woodard, John M.
  • River ripples / Wright, Mabel Steele.
  • Mt. Lookout, "where you can see for two days" / Colville, Ruth Marie.
  • Boom town boy : | in old Creede, Colorado / Bennett, Edwin Lewis
  • Golden treasures of the San Juan, | [Book] / Marshall, John B