Research Resources

I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. The links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.

The books below are a suggested reading list to learn more about the people and history of Gunnison County, Colorado. You can obtain most of these books through interlibrary loan.
	Crystal River Saga; Lore of the Colorado Rockies, Celebrating Rush to the Rockies Centennial, 1859-1959. In association with Will L. Francis. Author Francis, Theresa V. Call Number 978.84 F847cr C978.84 G956fr Publisher Carbondale, Colo. [1959] Description 48 p., illus. 20 cm.
	Epitaph for an Editor : a Century of Journalism in Hinsdale and Gunnison Counties, 1875-1975, by Betty Wallace. Call Number C071.8839 W155ep Publisher Gunnison, Colo. : B & B Printers, c1987. Description 286 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
	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.
	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.
	Gunnison, a Short, Illustrated History. Author Wallace, Elizabeth Virginia Steele, 1913- Call Number 978.841 W155g C978.84 G956wag G978.841 G957wa Publisher Denver, Sage Books [c1964] Description 88 p. illus., maps, ports. 21 cm.
	The Gunnison Country, by Duane Vandenbusche, Call Number C978.841 V281gu Publisher Gunnison, Colo. : B & B Printers, 1980. Description 472 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 29 cm. Includes index. Mr. Vandenbusche is a history professor at Western State College. This is an excellent book.
	The Gunnison Country, 1879-1886, by H.C. Cornwall. Call Number C978.841031 C816gu Publisher [s.l. : s.n.] 1928. Description 79 leaves ; 28 cm. Notes Typed copy of original manuscript college archives, Western State College, Gunnison, Colo.
	Gunnison County, Colorado; the Majestic Empire of the Western Slope, by A.P. Nelson Call Number C978.84 G956ne
	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."
	Historical Sketches of Early Gunnison. Corporate Author Colorado State Normal School. Class of 1916. (Western State College) Call Number C978.84 G956co Publisher [Gunnison, Colo.] 1916. Description 59 p. : illus. ports. 26 cm. Series Title Bulletin of Colorado State Normal School ; v. 5, no. 3 ; June 1, 1916
	History with the Hide Off, by Betty Wallace. Author Wallace, Elizabeth Virginia (Steele), 1913- Call Number 978.841 W155hi C978.84 G956wah Publisher Denver, Sage Books [c1965] Description 276 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. 23 cm.
	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
	Marble, A Town Built on Dreams, Volume I, by Oscar McCollum Jr., 978.841
	Marble, A Town Built on Dreams, Volume II, by Oscar McCollum Jr., 978.841
	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.
	Reflections on a Western Town : an Oral History of Crested Butte, Colorado, by Kelsey D. Wirth. 1969- Call Number 978.841 W746re Publisher Crested Butte, Colo. : Oh-Be-Joyful Press, c1996. Description xiv, 222 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
	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.
	What's in a Name? In the Gunnison Country, by Charles A. Page. 1926- Call Number 929.4 P141wh C929.488 P141wh Publisher Gunnison, Colo., Page Books [1974] Description 76 p. illus. 22 cm.
	When Coal Was King : a History of Crested Butte, Colorado, 1880-1952, by Duane A. Smith. Call Number 978.841 S645wh C978.841 S645wh Publisher Golden, Colo. : Colorado School of Mines Press, c1984. Description xiii, 144 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. -- Series Title Heritage resource study series ; v. 7 Notes Includes index.
	Your Passport to Gunnison Country, a Potpourri of Past and Present, by Charles A. Page

VOLUNTEERS - WE NEED YOU! Would you like to help?

• Do you have any Local History books that you would be willing to use for an occasional lookup request?
• Would you be willing to post Gunnison County obituaries on the GenConnect boards?
• Would you be willing to transcribe local cemeteries or photograph local historical buildings? (this is relaxing and fun)
• Do you visit the local library occasionally? If so, could you do a lookup while you are there?
• Do you have access to some other historical records, such as wills, diaries, census returns, newspapers, etc. that you would be willing to transcribe?
• Do you have any old Gunnison County yearbooks you would be willing to index or do a lookup in?
• If you do research in Gunnison County or at any Colorado Archives for a fee, let me know. I will post that in the appropriate area also.

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