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A suggested reading list for San Miguel County researchers

A word about Interlibrary Loans.....

For those of you haven't tried "Interlibrary Loan" - it is the greatest thing since ice cream! If you want to read a book that you can't get locally talk to your librarian. Most US libraries participate in the program. Write down the book title, author, and any other details you may have such as publisher. Give it to your librarian and she will order the book in for you. My library charges me between $2-$5 to get any book that circulates in the country. The process usually takes several weeks. The library calls you when it comes in. Usually you can take the book home for several weeks. Some libraries require you read the book on the premises. It depends on the policy of the lending library and the value of the book. Some books are so scarce that they don't circulate.

If you can't obtain your book through interlibrary loan - there is still hope. Make a trip to the Library of Congress in Washington DC some day. They have a copy of almost every book ever published in the U.S. Everyone needs to visit this wonderful repository at least once in their life! And don't forget Ebay - always a good source for obscure books, as is Amazon.com. One final place to look - check out the local historical societies - they usually have books and transcriptions available for sale because sale of their transcriptions is one of their major sources of funding.

A Quick History of Telluride,
by Rose Weber,
Little London Press, Colorado Springs, 52 pages. See online index.
Beginnings: Shenandoah-Coventry-Redvale,
by Mildred Jacobs Porter.
See online index.
Historic Telluride,
by Christian J. Buys
In the Company of Cowboys,
by Howard E. Greager
(about Disappointment Valley).See online index.
Recollections of Telluride, Colorado: 1895-1920,
by Martin G. Wenger,
62 pages, See online index.
Telluride: From Pick to Powder,
by Richard L. and Suzanne Fetter,
Caxton Printers Ltd, Caldwell Idaho 83605, 1990, history of Telluride with photos, 196 pages, See online Index.
Telluride: Tales of Two Early Pioneers,
by L.G. Denison and L.A. York,
recollections of the settlement of Telluride and Norwood, 161 pages including index, Indesign Studios, Loren S. Kruse, PO Box 69363, Odessa TX 79769-0363, See online index.
The Telluride Story,
by David Lavender
The Town That Refused to Die: Ridgway, CO 1890-1991,
by Doris H. Gregory.
Index available online.
Tomboy Bride,
by Harriet Fish Backus,
Pruett Press, Boulder CO, 1969, Author's autobiographical account of life in the Tomboy mining camp above Telluride, Colorado. Also accounts of mining camps near Leadville, Ouray and in the San Juan Mountains at the turn of the last century.
Uncompahgre: A Guide to the Uncompahgre Plateau,
by Muriel Marshall.
Online index available.
Uncompahgre Country,
by Wilson Rockwell
Where Eagles Winter: History and Legend of the Disappointment Country,
by Wilma Crisp Bankston. See online index.
Where Rivers Meet: Lore from the Colorado Frontier,
by Muriel Marshall. See online index.
A Brief History of Telluride
by Christian J. Buys. See online index.
The Corpse on Boomerang Road: Telluride's War on Labor, 1899-1908
by Maryjoy Martin
. A Rocky Mountain Fantasy, Telluride CO,
by David Lavender
Adventures of a Telluride Native,
by Evelyn Gustofson Eggebroton. Online index.
. As I Remember: The Midwinters and Telluride,
by Alma Mary Midwinter Clifton
. Bostonians & Bullion, The Journal of Robert Livermore 1892-1915,
edited by Gene M. Gressley
. Gio Oberto of Telluride CO,
by Gio Oberto
. Last Dollar Ranch, Hastings Mesa, San Miguel County, CO,
by Donna Mulliken Freeman
. My Association with a Glamorous Man: Bulkeley Wells,
by EB Adams 1961
. Reminiscences of William J Webb,
by William J Webb, 978.823
. Smith Ranch, Colona CO, 1879-1992,
by Donna Mullikin Freeman
. Telluride, Pandora & the Mines Above : Telluride Pandora and the Mines Above
(The RGS Story Ser. Vol. 2) by Russ Collman
. Telluride: Power for the Intermountain West,
by Orville J. Sweeting (history of JJ Nunn and the development of alternating power transmission)
. The Hell That Was Paradox,
by Howard E. Greager
. The Spell of the Tabeguache,
by Alice Boyder Douglas
. The Uncompahgre Valley and the Gunnison Tunnel,
by Barton Walter Marsh 1870
   

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