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4
LOOKING FORWARD INTO THE PAST
By E.P. Tenney.
Printed
by the Rumford Press, and published at
Nahant
,
Massachusetts
, 1910. Original gold-embossed,
illustrated, black cloth binding; gold print on spine; 243 pages.
E.P. Tenney was the first president of
Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This book is about
Tenney's travels in the West, and his work in the development of Colorado
Springs and establishment of Colorado College.
Very fine in very good dust jacket.
Price:
$250.00
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LEGENDS OF THE PIKE'S PEAK REGION:
The Sacred Myths of the Manitou.
by Ernest Whitney
Assisted by William S. Alexander
Illustrated by Thomas C. Parrish, Colorado
Springs artist and promoter.
Published
by The Chain & Hardy Co.,
Denver
,
Colorado
, 1892. Original blue printed white
covers; 52 pages.
Very good plus condition.
Tipped in receipt from
Rosita
,
Colorado
, 1876, signed by Thomas C. Parrish.
Price:
$150.00
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THE
TREAD OF PIONEERS
Charles H. Leckenby, compiler.
Some Highlights in the Dramatic and Colorful History of
Northwestern Colorado
.
From the Pilot Press, by the Steamboat Pilot,
Steamboat Springs
,
Colorado
, 1944, first edition.
Original green cloth binding with gold embossing on front
cover and spine; 206 pages, plus index; half-tone illustrations.
Signed by Leckenby.
Condition: very good plus to near fine.
Price:
$100.00
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LIGHTNING
IN HIS HAND: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla
By Inez Hunt and Wanetta W. Draper
Sage
Books:
Denver
,
Colorado
, 1964, first edition; dust jacket; illustrated.
Original burgundy cloth with silver print on
spine; 269 pages; illustrated end papers.
Very fine in near fine, price-clipped, dust
jacket (one chip on rear panel).
"The authors of Lightning in His
Hand -- popular writers and lecturers upon the history of the West -- became
interested in the story of Nikola Tesla in doing the research for their book To
Colorado's Restless Ghosts. They found that the truly
internationally-known inventor, one of the greatest inventive scientists of all
time, had performed some of his most important experiments in Colorado.
And they found that a little isolated mining community in Colorado was the scene
of the world's first experiment in the transmission of high voltage alternating
current for power purposes in a project that involved distance."
Price:
$85.00
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GRAND
LAKE: THE PIONEERS
By Mary Lyons Cairns
The
World Press, Inc.: Denver,
Colorado,1946, first edition.
Original red cloth binding with black print
on front cover and spine; maps on end papers; 295 pages.
Original advertising brochure included. Near fine in near fine dust
jacket.
"Grand Lake: The Pioneers is a
stirring narrative as exciting as fiction, picturing in a vivid yet simple way
the founding of what is now one of the most widely known areas in
Colorado. It tells of the Indian Tribes who roamed these mountains --
their intrigues, their battles, their superstitions, and their ultimate
banishment. It brings to life many of the exploits of European nobles who
came for unspoiled hunting; it relates romantic and tragic incidents in the
lives of the first white settlers, and tells how they made their own good
times. Here the ghost towns are revived with all their hope and
promise. The church, the school, the trails, the roads -- all had colorful
beginnings ...."
Inscribed by author.
THE OLDEN DAYS, A Companion Book to
GRAND
LAKE
: THE PIONEERS
By Mary Lyons Cairns.
The World Press, Inc.:
Denver,
Colorado, 1954. Original red cloth binding
with black print on front cover and spine; maps on end papers; 242 pages.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Signed by author.
Set of 2 books:
Price:
$250.00
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NATURE
NOTES OF THE
PIKES PEAK
REGION
By Lloyd Shaw
Decorations by C.E. Butner.
Apex Book Company, 1916, first edition.
Original illustrated green cloth binding; gold print on front cover and
spine; 242 pages.
"If you love the out-of-doors and know
the faces of many of its wild folk, this book is yours. It makes no
pretensions of being a scientific treatise, a guide book or a key. It
makes no claim to completeness. Its plan is of the wild, a flash of
blossoms here, a bird fluttering overhead, a chipmunk scurrying by and the
singing of the unruled wind in the pines ... During the summer of 1916 the
author wrote a series of articles for the Colorado Springs Gazette,
following the wild things through a season ...."
Near fine condition; missing front fly-leaf.
Price:
$30.00
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