They rode or drove over steep, narrow trails with precipitous falls and rewarding any mistake. They slept in primitive cabins and tents and faced water shortages. These were the pioneering tourists. Welcome to their world.

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Women to the Rescue

Who saved Mesa Verde? Women did. Who created the national park? Women did. Women to the Rescue is their story. From the 1890's into 1906, a group of determined, dedicated women did all in their power to preserve the ruins, make the public aware, and arouse Congress to action to establish a park. Then, at the moment of victory, they split into two factions and that is the rest of the story.

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San Juan Sampler is a marvelous book showcasing selections from the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Postcard Collection. It offers a glimpse of some quaint towns in the San Juan Mountains, and the spectacular Million Dollar Highway that connects them. Take a fascinating journey with these essays and the accompanying historic postcards and learn why so many of us are proud to call these mountain towns our home.

This book is one of numerous projects for the 40th anniversary of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. - Click here to order

"Charlie Langdon's newest poems, like those that preceded them, spring from a long and wonderful tradition of telling storeis that matter with words that capturte hearts. These are poems about the folly of current wars and the final days of lives well lived, about landscapes that offer succor and vital relationships that give us reasons to live. His voice is strong, true, and even wise, if I may use that word, by which I mean, I think these poems are the progeny of Charlie's keen eyesight and his soul."
-- Russel Martin, author of Picasso's War
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The Durango Diary

"The ‘Durango Diary’ was originally published from 1986-1991 in the Durango Herald in the Friday edition. Each article covered one subject and included a photograph or drawing. The series covered the years from the 1880s into the 1920s, with a few maverick 1870s articles to set the scene. The articles printed in this volume represent the largest share of those discussing topics and people from the 1880s and 1890s."...read more

Thirty years after the discovery of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, the first scientific archaeological explorations in Colorado took place in a district of the upper San Juan River drainage known for a pair of prominent pinnacles called Chimney Rock. ..read more

Houses on Country Roads

Essays on the Places, Seasons, and Peoples of the Four Corners Country.
"Ian Thompson is as deft at chronicling the cyclical sweep of time on a particular piece of earth as anyone I know. ...read more

Author B.J. Boucher gives us a chance to listen and discover the wildness of the Weminuche Wilderness in this beautifully written book. It’s more than a guidebook. ...read more

"For years, it has been apparent to this writer that there existed a need for a short history of Fort Lewis. Students consistently ask for information on the development of the College. They want "to know all about" its antecedents as an Indian School and a frontier military post. ..read more

Sally Morrissey's Peace Corps Experience in Guatemala.
With so much written lately about violence and poverty in Latin America, I want the people I lived and worked with in Guatemala to become real people, not statistics. ...read more

'I do not return to Massachusetts by way of Concord Bridge,' Charlie Langdon writes here in one childhood recollection that is both a poem and a story. Similarly, this storyteller's book of poems returns to American sources from new directions: mostly West. ...read more

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