Books
of Local and Regional History
The electronic card catalogue for the Red Feather
Lakes Library is www.rfllibrary.org.
**
indicates books in the Red Feather Lakes Library; * available through
interlibrary loan;
Click
on highlighted titles to obtain more information about the book, such as table
of contents or a summary of the book.
Local History
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Among
These Hills, A History of Livermore Colorado, A
Centennial Publication of the Livermore Woman’s Club, 1896-1996, call Linda
Adams, 970 224 4567.
**
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, Fort Collins Co.
**
Those
Crazy Pioneers,
Lafi Miller, 2000, self published,
166 pages.
**
The Poudre: A Photo
History, Stanley R. Case , 1995, self-published, 468 pages.
**
Rabbit
Creek Country, Three Ranching Lives in
the Heart of the Mountain West, John
Thiem, with Deborah Dimon, 2008, University of New Mexico Press , 440 pages.
** 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
**
Roadside History of
Colorado, James
McTighe, 1984, Johnson Books Boulder, 389 pages.
**
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.
Regional History – Beyond Colorado
Natural History
** Cache la Poudre, The
Natural History of a Rocky Mountain River, Howard Ensign Evans and Mary Alice Evans, 1991,
University of Colorado, 260 pages.
** 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
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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 follow up 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.
** Centennial,
James A. Michener, 1974, Random House, 1087 pages.
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.
Click Centennial Summary for more.
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