
| 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 | |
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