Colorado Writers for Colorado Classrooms

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From this page, you may browse through particular subjects of texts by Colorado writers.  Each text title is linked to a critical summary, so that you may learn a bit more about the text.  Because the texts often include several topics, you may find texts listed under multiple subject headings.

Please select one of the topics listed below to browse the texts.

Growing Up
Bentley, Nancy.  I've Got Your Nose!.
Bogue, Lucille.  Blood on the Wind:  The Memoirs of Flying Horse Mollie, a Yampa Ute, Based upon the History of Colorado's Famous Meeker Massacre.
Creel, Ann Howard.  A Ceiling of Stars.
---.  Water at the Blue Earth.
Crow, Mary.  I Have Tasted the Apple.
Dean, Lou.  Angels in Disguise:  A True Story.
Epstein, Vivian Sheldon.  The ABCs of What a Girl Can Be.
---.  History of Colorado's Women for Young People.
---.  History of Women for Children.
Finley, Mary Peace.  Soaring Eagle.
Hanley, Victoria.  The Seer and the Sword.
Haruf, Kent.  Plainsong.
---.  The Tie that Binds.
Hobbs, Will.  Beardream.
---.  Howling Hill.
Hogan, Linda.  The Woman Who Watches over the World:  A Native Memoir .
Jones-Eddy, Julie.  Homesteading Women:  An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 .
Josephson, Gretchen.  Bus Girl.
Lyon, Suzanne.  Lady Buckaroo:  A Western Story.
Mills, Claudia.  Gus and Grandpa.
Nagda, Ann Whitehead.  Dear Whiskers.
Peters, Julie Anne.  Keeping You a Secret.
---.  The Stinky Sneakers Contest.
Pritchett, Laura.  Hell's Bottom, Colorado.
Schwartz, Steven.  A Good Doctor's Son.
Singleton, Elyse.  This Side of the Sky.
Stevens, Janet.  How the Manx Cat Lots Its Tail.
---.  Tops and Bottoms.
Stevens, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel.  My Big Dog.
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Colorado/Western Life and History
Abeyta, Aaron, A.  Colcha.
Bancroft, Caroline.  Augusta Tabor:  Her Side of the Scandal.
Bluemel, Elinor.  Florence Sabin:  Colorado Woman of the Century.
Bogue, Lucille.  Blood on the Wind:  The Memoirs of Flying Horse Mollie, a Yampa Ute, Based upon the History of Colorado's Famous Meeker Massacre.
---.  One Woman, One Ranch, One Summer.
Brown, Connie.  MacGregor's Lantern.
Brown, Margaret Duncan.  Sheperdess of Elk River Valley.
Cornell, Virginia.  Doc Susie:  The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies.
Creel, Ann Howard.  A Ceiling of Stars.
---.  Water at the Blue Earth.
Crow, Mary.  Going Home.
Dallas, Sandra.  The Diary of Mattie Spencer.
Davidson, Diane Mott.  Catering to Nobody.
Downing, Sybil. The Binding Oath.
---.  Fire in the Hole.
Epstein, Vivian Sheldon.  History of Colorado's Women for Children .
Fergus, Jim.  One Thousand White Women:  The Journals of Mary Dodd.
Finley, Mary Peace.  Soaring Eagle.
Friggens, Myriam.  Tales, Trails, and Tommyknockers:  Stories of Colorado's Past.
Furman, Evelyn E. Livingston.  My Search for August Pierce Tabor, Leadville's First Lady.
The Geography of Hope:  Poets of Colorado's Western Slope.
Galvin, James.  Fencing the Sky.
---.  Lethal Frequencies.
---.  The Meadow.
Glick, Daniel.  Powder Burn:  Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain.
Harmon, Susan.  Colorado Ransom.
---.  Spirit of the Bear.
Haruf, Kent.  Plainsong.
---.  The Tie that Binds.
Hobbs, Will.  Beardream.
---.  Howling Hill.
Hogan, Linda.  The Woman Who Watches over the World:  A Native Memoir .
Hunt, Inez and Wanetta Draper.  Colorado Crazy Quilt.
Hurd, Jerrie.  Miss Ellie's Purple Sage Saloon.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.  Nelly's Silver Mine.
---.  Westward to a High Mountain.
Jones-Eddy, Julie.  Homesteading Women:  An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950.
Jorgensen, Christine T.  A Love To Die for.
---.  You Bet Your Life.
Josephson, Gretchen.  Bus Girl.
Lund, Jillian.  Way Out West Lives a Coyote Named Frank.
Lyon, Suzanne.  Bandit Invincible:  Butch Cassidy, a Western Story.
---.  Lady Buckaroo:  A Western Story.
McManus, Carol.  Ida:  Her Labor of Love.
Pettem, Silvia.  Separate Lives:  The Story of Mary Rippon.
Pritchett, Laura.  Hell's Bottom, Colorado.
Propst, Nell Brown.  Those Strenuous Dames of the Colorado Prairie.
Rich, Helen.  The Spring Begins.
Robertson, Janet.  The Magnificent Mountain Women:  Adventures in the Colorado Rockies.
Saner, Reg.  Essay on Air.
---.  So This Is the Map.
Semple, James Alexander, ed.  Representative Women:  A Pictoral Collection . . ..
Stevens, Janet.  Coyote Steals the Blanket:  A Ute Tale.
Tipton, James.  Letters from a Stranger.
Todd, Mark.  Wire Song.
Turnbull, Belle.  The Tenmile Range.
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Women in the West
Alan, Theresa.  Who You Know.
Bancroft, Caroline.  Augusta Tabor:  Her Side of the Scandal.
Bluemel, Elinor.  Florence Sabin:  Colorado Woman of the Century.
Bogue, Lucille.  Blood on the Wind:  The Memoirs of Flying Horse Mollie, a Yampa Ute, Based upon the History of Colorado's Famous Meeker Massacre.
---.  One Woman, One Ranch, One Summer.
Brown, Connie.  MacGregor's Lantern.
Brown, Margaret Duncan.  Sheperdess of Elk River Valley.
Cornell, Virginia.  Doc Susie:  The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies.
Crow, Mary.  Going Home.
---.  I Have Tasted the Apple.
Dallas, Sandra.  The Diary of Mattie Spencer.
Danneberg, Julie.  Women Artists of the West:  Five Portraits in Creativity and Courage.
Davidson, Diane Mott.  Catering to Nobody.
Downing, Sybil. The Binding Oath.
---.  Fire in the Hole.
Epstein, Vivian Sheldon.  The ABCs of What a Girl Can Be.
---.  History of Colorado's Women for Young People.
---.  History of Women for Children.
Fergus, Jim.  One Thousand White Women:  The Journals of Mary Dodd.
Furman, Evelyn E. Livingston.  My Search for August Pierce Tabor, Leadville's First Lady.
Harmon, Susan.  Colorado Ransom.
---.  Spirit of the Bear.
Haruf, Kent.  The Tie that Binds.
Hogan, Linda.  The Woman Who Watches over the World:  A Native Memoir.
Hurd, Jerrie.  Miss Ellie's Purple Sage Saloon.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.  Nelly's Silver Mine.
Jones-Eddy, Julie.  Homesteading Women:  An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950.
Jorgensen, Christine T.  A Love To Die for.
---.  You Bet Your Life.
Josephson, Gretchen.  Bus Girl.
Lyon, Suzanne. Lady Buckaroo:  A Western Story.
McManus, Carol.  Ida:  Her Labor of Love.
Nine [Women] Poets:  Alive and Writing in Colorado.
Pettem, Silvia.  Separate Lives:  The Story of Mary Rippon.
Pritchett, Laura.  Hell's Bottom, Colorado.
Propst, Nell Brown.  Those Strenuous Dames of the Colorado Prairie.
Rich, Helen.  The Spring Begins.
Robertson, Janet.  The Magnificent Mountain Women:  Adventures in the Colorado Rockies.
Semple, James Alexander, ed.  Representative Women:  A Pictoral Collection . . ..
Turnbull, Belle.  The Tenmile Range.
Urisote, Pat Keuning.  Choosing the Moon.
Womanthology:  A Collection of Colorado Women Poets.
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