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Book Summaries and References The Red Feather Lakes Library website, www.redfeatherlibrary.org, in addition to a search catalogue for books, has a community calendar and links to community organizations such as the churches, the boys' and girls' scout camps, the volunteer fire departments, the Shambhala Center and more.The first group of books
listed below were significant sources for this website. Many are in the Red Feather Lakes Library.
Click on a highlighted title to obtain more information about the book in this
website, such as table
of contents or a summary of the book. Resources for this Website Among
These Hills, A History of Livermore Colorado, Revised
Second Edition, 2009, 297 pages, Livermore Woman’s
Club.
Available through the Livermore Woman's Club, call Linda Adams, 970 224 4567. Memories of an Old Timer, Wesley Swan, 1972, 122 pages, self-published. Ranch
Histories of Livermore and Vicinity 1884- 1956,
A Reprinting of the Larimer County Stockgrowers Association, 2003, 166 pages.
Available through the Livermore Woman's Club, call Linda Adams, 970 224 4567. Red Feather 100 Years, Evadene Burris Swanson, 1971, 90 pages. Available through the Red Feather Historical Society, call Pat Clemens, 970-495-0560. Those Crazy Pioneers, Lafi Miller, 2000, 166 pages, self-published.
The
Poudre: A Photo History, Stanley R. Case, 1995, 468 pages, self-published,
. Rabbit Creek Country, Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West, John Thiem, with Deborah Dimon, 2008, 440 pages, University of New Mexico Press. Centennial,
James A. Michener, 1974, 1087 pages, Random House. Centennial is a fictional town a few miles east of Greeley, Colorado,
along the South Platte River. It is
the setting for Michener’s depiction of the settling of the west, and of
particular interest for our history, the development of the cattle ranching
business. History of Larimer County, Colorado, by Ansel Watrous, reference only, can not be checked out. The Story of the Ben Delatour Boy Scout Ranch by Harold M. Dunning (undated, with Mr. & Mrs. George C. Weaver as primary resources). Roadside History of
Colorado, James
McTighe, 1984, 389 pages, Johnson Books Boulder.
An
Ear In His Pocket: The Life of Jack Slade, Roy Paul O’Dell & Kenneth
Jessen, 1996, 122 pages, J. V. Publications, Loveland. Historic
Trail Map of the Greeley 1º X 2 º Quadrangle, Colorado and Wyoming, (USGS)
1993, 29
pages, Glenn R. Scott (US Geological Survey) and Carol Rein
Shwayder (Historian of Greeley Colorado). Historical Atlas of the American West, (ATLAS), Warren Beck (geology professor at California State University Fullerton) and Ynez D. Haase (cartographer), 1989, 78 pages, University of Oklahoma Press. The
World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, J. S. Holliday, 1981,
556 pages, A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster. Bromley, John E., Director Historic Programs, Union
Pacific Railroad Museum, 200 Pearl St. Council Bluffs, IA 51503 (402) 501-3843,
email correspondence.
Other books of possible interest. Local History From Dream To Reality A
Short History Of How A Little Library Was Born And Grew, Ann Smyth, 2005. History And 2005 Dedication Of Red Feather Lakes Community Library,
Ann Smyth, July 2005. Historical Interest Tour
For Red Feather Lakes Mountain Gals, Lafi
Miller, August 11, 1982. A Cool Place To Be Red
Feather Lakes, Colorado, Doris Gregory-Deits, Colorado 2008. Red Feather Lakes A
Child's View Of History, Red Feather Lakes Library, 1988. Regional History - Colorado Colorado Place Names,
William Bright, 2004, Boulder, Colorado, Johnson Books. Over Hill And Vale Vol. II History Of Northern Colorado , Harold
Marion Dunning, 1971, Boulder, Co Johnson Publishing Co. Natural History Roadside Geology of
Colorado,
Halka Chronic and Felice Williams, 2002, Mountain Press Publishing, 334 pages. Scenes of the Plateau Lands, and How They Came to Be, Wm.
Lee Stokes, 1969, Starstone Publishing ____
Historical Fiction ** The Meadow, James Galvin, 1992, Henry Holt and Company, 230
pages. “James Galvin depicts the
hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming
border. Galvin describes the
seasons, the weather, the wildlife and the few people who do not possess but are
themselves possessed by this terrain” (back of the book).
The Meadow Tour was for several years conducted by Dennis Frydendall and
one of the most popular tours offered by the Society. ** Fencing the Sky, James Galvin, 1999, Picador, 258 pages.
A followup to The Meadow, the novel is a murder mystery
reflecting the tensions occurring as the ranching community reacts to the influx
of outsiders who lack historical and ecological perspective. |