This book offers the same high quality as Borneman and Lampert's guide to Colorado fourteeners. Unlike many other guidebooks listing routes on mountains within a certain elevation range, this book does not attempt to establish a "peak-bagging" list. Instead, it presents a selection of fun, enjoyable routes on some of Colorado's less-travelled, yet distinctive mountains. It has good maps, route descriptions, maps, and historical information.

Terrific book that goes with me on every trip around Colorado. This will get you to most every historic/interesting bar in the State.

An absolute beautiful book with many great and exciting photos! John Fielder takes you to the Colorado wilderness with an amazing photogenic touch. If you love the wilderness and have always dreamed about visiting Colorado, then this is the book that will inspire you more to go there. And John Fielder proves to you that there is no place in the world like the state of Colorado. I also recommend that you buy ALONG COLORADO'S CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL, ALONG THE COLORADO TRAIL, and TO WALK IN WILDERNESS photography books. And all of them are from the world famous John Fielder!

This is a great little book for those of you who like little bits of history. This book provides a short summary of the history or interesting facts of places in colorado. If you are into geneology you learn that a town or county may not have the same name today that it did 90 years ago. That complicates your search. This book lists many of those towns and gives you their current and old names,as well as the name of the county the town is or was in. You will often be told the origin of the place, and its nameas well as any interesting facts. I do recommend this book to historians or any one who just likes interesting tid bits. Its also fun to go visit some of those places and experience them first hand.

I've been fly fishing all my life and have traveled the world doing it. These are the best guides I've come across. He also wrote the Idiot's Guide to Flyfishing, which I have given away to friends.

Great book for data! Lists lat, lon, and elevation for thousands of named points along the CD. Not necessarily the CD Trail.

First of all, I'm somewhat biased in my opinion because Mr. Grant was a distant relative. That aside, this book is a must read for anyone who wants a first hand glimpse into life as seen through a pioneer settler's eyes. This man could tell a story in terms that any true midwesterner can appreciate. His other book, Vanishing Wagon Tracks is equally entertaining.

I want to buy this book for my family members. However, others must agree with my review because I've had no success finding this title anywhere else. Hopefully, Amazon.com can hook me up with someone that has this out of print work of art.

Because of her father's debts, thirteen-year-old Eda Hitchcock and her family are on their way west to Pike's Peak, hoping to strike it rich. After a long and difficult journey, they're finally almost there. But living in a tumbledown cabin in the wilderness and losing everything they own to thieves isn't what they expected. Nothing seems to go right. Eda sometimes wonders, will they ever get back home? This was a great book. It was interesting, and exciting, and had a likeable main character.

I spent four years on the Western Slope of Colorado involved in one way or another with some of the wonderful literary talent in the area. If there is one thing I learned it was that when Western Reflection Publishing Company of Ouray, Colorado published a book it was usually worth looking at. This one is no exception. In fact, the reader of this book gets not only a well-edited book but one written by a highly talented Western slope author: kind of a two for one deal. Glen Hinshaw spent thirty-four years as a Colorado wildlife officer specializing in the San Juan Mountains and southwestern Colorado. For most of this time he was "on the ground" working out of Creede, CO. to preserve and protect the wildlife heritage that most people associate with Colorado and too many take for granted. Crusaders for Wildlife is a highly readable history of the near demise of many of Colorado's wild animals just a hundred years ago and the mostly unknown efforts of a band of dedicated crusaders that toiled to preserve and return the wildlife heritage for generations to come. This is not your usual history book. It is better. To be sure, there is an abundance of well-researched, well-written histories of the fish and game that make the San Juan Mountains truly a national treasure. You will learn of the stewardship of the land and wildlife by the Ute Indians and exploitation by early settlers. You will learn some of the complex issues that confront wildlife officers as they struggle to balance the needs of wildlife with the changing demands and expectations of a growing populace. The effects of logging, grazing, and roads on wildlife is examined in a balanced manner and the age-old question of the possibility of Grizzlies in the San Juan's is addressed. You will also learn about Whirling disease which is threatening Colorado's legendary fishing reputation and the reasons behind setting limits on Elk and Deer kills. Yes, its all here. If you are a hunter, fisher or simply have had the opportunity to visit the incomparable San Juan Mountains and want to know about the history of the game and fish in the area, this is the book for you. Hinshaw has a knack of writing in such a manner that you feel you are riding along side of him as he patrols the mountains he so obviously loves. It's like sitting at home with an old friend visiting about wildlife and mountains and other memories that matter. We are indebted to Hinshaw for a superb, readable history of an area truly blessed to have attracted the attention of these Crusaders for Wildlife. This one is worth the reader's time.

We didn't know there were so many culinary adventures in Colorado. The author has researched the state well. We learned a lot about some of our favorite places and also discovered some new ones.