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Title:<\/span> The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls<\/p>

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Goldie Griffith was one of a kind.<\/h3>\r\n \r\n\r\nShe never shot a husband who didn't deserve it...<\/em>\r\n\r\nShe boxed. She fenced. She rode bucking broncos in the Buffalo Bill Wild West traveling tent shows, and a newspaper referred to the pretty young bronco buster as a \"Heller in Skirts.\"\r\n\r\nShe was one of the first professional female athletes. She was an actor and stunt rider for the brand-new western movies that were taking the country by storm.\r\n\r\nShe was married during a Buffalo Bill Wild West show at Madison Square Garden with a crowd of 8,000 in attendance, and Buffalo Bill himself gave her away.\r\n\r\nShe became a rancher and owned several restaurants in the mountains of Colorado. She trained dogs for the war and applied to be the first policewoman in San Francisco. Was there anything she couldn't do? She didn't think so. This is the (amazingly) true story of Goldie Griffith's life. With over 120 photographs and images.\r\n\r\nA 2009 WILLA Literary Award finalist for creative nonfiction.\r\n\r\nAvailable everywhere online.<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/a>\r\n\r\n <\/p><\/div>\"Cover<\/a><\/div>The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls<\/a><\/span><\/span>

Title:<\/span> The Mountain Pine Beetle\u2014Tiny but Mighty<\/p>

Summary:<\/span> Imagine an insect as small as a grain of rice killing a tree that towers 70 feet above the forest floor. Seems impossible, doesn't it? Not when one mountain pine beetle joins forces with thousands of others to form an army of forest killers.\r\n\r\nIn \"The Mountain Pine Beetle: Tiny but Mighty,\" Kay Turnbaugh tells the story of how such a tiny insect has managed to change the landscape of our western forests. With lively text, vivid (and sometimes icky) photographs, plus engaging illustrations, \"The Mountain Pine Beetle\" tells us how these little buggers operate and how the forests manage to survive.\r\n\r\nPerfect for schools and libraries and anyone who wants to make sense of the world around them.<\/p><\/div>\"Book<\/a><\/div>The Mountain Pine Beetle\u2014Tiny but Mighty<\/a><\/span><\/span>

Title:<\/span> Around Nederland<\/p>

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Nederland survived three boom-and-bust cycles involving three different minerals.<\/h3>\r\nDuring the silver boom, U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant visited Central City in 1873 and walked on silver bricks that had been mined in Caribou and milled in Nederland.\r\n\r\nThe second boom followed the discovery of gold in Eldora in 1897 and lasted only a few years.\r\n\r\nThe third boom was sparked by the discovery of tungsten by Sam Conger, the same man who made the original discovery of silver in Caribou. The Conger mine eventually became the greatest tungsten mine in the world. During World War I, Nederland's population swelled to 3,000--twice the size it is today--and another 2,000 were estimated to live nearby.\r\n\r\nIn each boom, men came to mine, open stores, and transport goods and ore. They brought families with them, and many towns sprang up, including Caribou, Eldora, Lakewood, Tungsten, and Rollinsville. Some of these communities have survived, while others remain only in memories and photographs.<\/p><\/div>\"Book<\/a><\/div>Around Nederland<\/a><\/span><\/span>

Title:<\/span> Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl<\/p>

Summary:<\/span>  \r\n\r\nRocky Mountain National Park was just over 10 years old that rainy summer when a young woman from Fayette, Iowa, newly graduated from college with a degree in speech and English and a thirst for adventure, traveled across the country by train to work as a dining room girl at the Horseshoe Inn.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis was the heyday of the romantic and majestic Horseshoe Inn, a rustic but genteel lodge situated in a grand meadow framed by towering peaks. Five years later, in 1931, the Horseshoe Inn was the first of the park\u2019s lodges to disappear in the effort to bring the park back to its natural state.\r\n\r\n\"four-horsemen-fb\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nEleanor Parker wrote home almost every day, and her mother carefully transcribed her daughter\u2019s letters into a school composition book that was passed down through her family and recently discovered. Her letters\u00a0are the basis of this lively account of the young adventurer\u2019s first summer away from home, a summer filled with hikes, moonlight horseback rides, dancing in the casinos, and sight-seeing automobile drives.\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Includes historic photographs and maps of her hikes and rides, many to the long-gone historic park lodges and all to landmarks and sights familiar to today\u2019s park visitors.<\/h4><\/p><\/div>\"Book<\/a><\/div>Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl<\/a><\/span><\/span>

Title:<\/span> Afoot and Afield: Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, RMNP<\/p>

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One of the most comprehensive hiking and biking books available.<\/span><\/h3>\r\n \r\n\r\nAlan Apt<\/strong>, author of the best-selling guidebook, Snowshoe Routes Colorado\u2019s Front Range<\/em>, and Kay Turnbaugh<\/strong>, author of Around Nederland<\/em>, carefully describe 184 adventures for people of all abilities and interests. <\/span>\r\n\r\nThe book includes everything from easy access Front Range lakeside strolls to high challenging treks among the high peaks. Many trails are great for kids (of all ages)\u2014less ambitious but highly satisfying, easy gambols in the natural world.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPublished by Wilderness Press<\/a>.\r\n\r\n The geographical scope of the book stretches from the Fort Collins area to Colorado Springs, and west to Rocky Mountain National Park, Fairplay, and Independence Pass; with superb coverage of mountains, plains, canyons and riverside adventures.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe new edition offers much more than the first edition, with:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n