West Routt Library District

A collection of twenty-five essays in which Louis L'Amour describes various aspects of the American frontier.

Surveys the history of art, including paintings, sculpture, architecture, and photography, from cave paintings to modern art.

Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...

A history and description of Aspen, Colorado.

A narrative of the time of Nero.

Includes bibliographies and index. Contains analyses of the presidents and their administrations on domestic and international affairs from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.

From the time of the stock market crash of 1929 to the return of prosperity in 1940-1941, Colorado suffered and overcame an unparalleled economic collapse. As banks and businesses failed, Coloradans struggled to rebuild their lives and the state's economy, creating in the process a tumultuous and fascinating decade. In Trials and Triumphs historian Stephen Leonard blends exhaustive research and more than 150 photographs, including a striking selection...

The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a 'revolution, which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth'. This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as 'a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the...