Pitkin County Free Genealogy Research Information

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Pitkin County Free Genealogy Research Information

 The books below are a suggested reading list to learn more about the people and history of Pitkin County, Colorado.

You should be able to obtain most of these books through interlibrary loan for free or a very nominal fee.

BOOK TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER

Famous Aspen, by Caroline Bancroft, The Golden Press 1954

Aspen: Dreams and Dilemmas, by Peggy Clifford, The Swallow Press 1970

To Aspen and Back, St. Martin's Press 1980

The Aspen Idea, by Sidney Hyman, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1975

"Horsethief Kelley" and his Camera, by Janet Landry and Joan Lane, 1972

Aspen, The Quiet Years 1910-1930, by Jim Markalunas

The Aspens, edited by Jamie Marshall, The Aspen Skiing Company 1989 

The Aspen Story, by John and Frankie O'Rear, A.S. Barnes 1966 

Aspen & The Roaring Fork Valley, by Sarah J. Pearce and Roxanne Eflin, Cordillera Press 1990

Aspen, The History of a Silver Mining Town, by Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Oxford Press 1986

Oh Be Joyful! An Historic Tale of Aspen Silver Camp, 1975

The Historical Hotel Jerome, 1986

Aspen on the Roaring Fork, by Frank L. Wentworth, Sundance Ltd. 1976

Aspen's Early Days, a Walking Tour, by Aspen Historical Society Heritage Series, Vol 1 by Heather Hopton and Lilo Shuldener 1975. 75 pp with photos and map, this book shows how it was and who was there. 

Pioneers of the Roaring Fork, by Len Shoemaker, 1965 hb w/ dj. Sage Publishing Denver Colorado262pp. The Aspen area, including some biographies of early pioneers, railroad and mine stories with colorfol local lore and stories.

The Lion of Redstone, by Sylvia Ruland, Call Number ISBN 0-933472-55-2, Johnson Publishing Company, Boulder CO 1981, a biography of John Cleveland Osgood

The Hidden Place : Redstone, by Norma Kenney ; Winifred Kitts and Ken Johnson, editors. Call Number C978.843 K395hi Publisher [Redstone, Colo.?] : Redstone Press, 1992. Description 94 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 221 cm. Notes "July 1992." 

The Story of Redstone, Colorado, by prepared by Pat R. Zollinger and Charles E. Osgood. Author Zollinger, Pat R. Call Number C978.843 Z753st Publisher Denver, Colo.: Viking Enterprises, c1964. Description 8 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Notes Title from cover. 

Ghosts of Pitkin County : a Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Pitkin and Northern Gunnison Counties, Colorado, by John K. Aldrich. Call Number 917.884104 A356gh 1992 Publisher Lakewood, Colo. : Centennial Graphics, c1992. Description 60 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 map (41 x 46 cm. folded to 21 x 13 cm. 

Marble, Colorado: City of Stone, by Duane Vandenbusche and Rex Myers. Call Number 978.84103 V281ma C978.84 G956va Publisher Denver, Golden Bell Press [c1970] Description vii, 221p. illus., map (on lining papers) 23cm. 

The Fabulous Valley: Some Facts and Conjectures about the Crystal River Valley in Colorado, by Alvin Foote. Call Number 978.841 F739fab Publisher New York, A. & T. Co., c1950. Description 39 p. illus., map. 


 
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