New! Old! The Classic and extremely rare 300 Page 1925 Biography of Irving Howbert which has been out of print for 37 years! Reprinted by Permission of his 91 Year old Grandson. Colorado City from 1860, Pioneer Life, Fighting Indians at Sand Creek, Founding of Colorado Springs, Early El Paso County and the Pike's Peak Region. With an Index that was not in the original. Our most important Book.

Published by your Old Colorado City Historical Society in 2007. $19.95

Historic Colorado City: The Town with a Future

by Dorothy Aldridge.

Aldridge's quick history follows the development of Colorado City. "The joy of strolling," Aldridge says, "was inherent in Colorado City which may have lost its name and boundaries in 1917 but not the spirit of community nor the comforting expectation that certain things will never change."

Published in 1996 by Little London Press, 29 E. Bijou Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903.

$8.95 plus shipping and sales tax.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls - Prostitutes in Colorado, 1860-1930

By Jan MacKell

Published in 2004 by University of New Mexico Press

Hardcover, 310 pages. A lively, thoroughly researched, and historically informative history of these women of the West. Many of the Madame's were from Colorado City, such as the famous Laura Belle. A lot more on the backgrounds of these notorious women before they entered the 'business' than most sensationalist histories

$24.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Red Rock Canyon Land

by John G Bock

Reprinted by OCCHS with permission of Bock family - paperback, 41 pages, history of the historic Red Rock Canyon, just west of Old Colorado City, now property of the City of Colorado Springs which is developing it into a hiking park.

$6.95

 

 

 

 

Your Own Piece of 1859 History!

Authentic Log Slice Momento from Bancroft Cabin

Certified by the Old Colorado City Historical Society as coming from one log which had to be replaced during the 2003 Cabin restoration. This Cabin was built by Dr. James Garvin in the fall of 1859 owned by a Colorado City Town Founder, Melancthon Beach. 1st Colorado Territorial Legislators caucused in that cabin. Was the El Paso County Seat in the late 1860s. The two young Robbins Boys and Charlie Everhart were laid out in the Cabin after being killed and scalped by the Arapahoe Indians in 1868.

Great Mantlepiece item, or Unusual Gift for those remote from Colorado who love history. Cut, coated, and engraved on one side only by our craftsmen.

$25.00 Can be shipped anywhere

 

 

In and Around Old Colorado City, a Walking Tour Guide .

Published as a joint grant project between the OCCHS and the Colorado State Historical Fund. Copyright 2001. 108 pages, amply. Paperback. Divided into 5 separate walking tours with many pictures and history of homes. $9.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reflections of the Pikes Peak Region

by Nancy Thaler and Cathy Matthews

Published in 2004 by the Pikes Peak Library District and Friends of the Library. Paperback with spiral binding in format of a perpetual calendar. Over 50 historical photographs from the Special Collections of the Penrose Library. $14.95

 

 

 

 

A Pictorial History of Colorado Springs

by Leland Feitz

Published by the author in 2000, it contains over 200 rare photos. Large paperback, 64 pages. $6.95

 

 

 

Faith in High Places

Jean Goodwin Messinger and Mary Jane Massey Rust

Wonderful pictures, color and black and white with tales about Historic Country Churches of Colorado, from the Mountains to the Plains and the Spanish San Luis Valley. And stories of the sometimes missionaries who inspired and built them from the indefegatible Sheldon Jacksonto the Itinerant Snow-Shoe Preacher Father Dyer.

$16.95

 

Decisive Battle

Dr. Wilfred Martinez

Important new scholarship on the famous march by Juan Baptista de Anza in 1779, with 200 Spanish soldiers, 400 Utes and Apaches, which came right down Ute Pass through where Colorado City now stands, in pursuit of the hated and feared Cuerno Verde Commanche Chief who raided the Spanish settlements north of Santa Fe. Col (Ret) Dave Hughes, himself a military man and historian agrees with Martinez findings about where de Anza came down after crossing parts of South Park to get behind the Commanches, and first fighting them right where downtown Colorado Springs now stands. Then making a final attack on the hated and haughty Chief who had terrorized the Spanish and the Utes and Apaches for decades before, south of Pueblo. Leading to the naming of the peak 'Greenhorn'

Original, researched, for a change using live horses to follow de Anza'a journal entries, and meticulous by a descendent of de Anza's cartographer when he was the Governor of Spanish Santa Fe.

$16.95

 

 

 

Sarah Elizabeth

J. G Masters

A Tale of Old Colorado, by a writer who fell in love wth Old Colorado City when she lived here in the 1970s.

$13.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colorado Story

 

 

Esther Clibon

 

 

Story of Colorado Life on a Homestead

in Eastern Colorado

 

$12.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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