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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

$65.00

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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.

Price: $65.00

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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: $35.00

"... But never again as during that all too short period when he and I were one person, when the fulfilled future and the wistful past were mingled in a single gorgeous moment -- when life was literally a dream...."  F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Early Success,' The Crack Up, October 1937