Endangered Wildlife Series Author: Lisa Rhodes Media: Paperback Price: $3.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-963-2 Pages: 32  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Amazon Many animals in the world are at risk of becoming extinct one day, meaning no longer living on Earth. Alaska is home to many animals that are considered endangered and many that are threatened. Color your way through Animals of Alaska, and discover some of the magnificent animals of the...

Day Hikes with Dogs: Western Montana Authors: Wendy Pierce and Becky Warren Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-961-8 Pages: 200  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Longtime Montana residents, hikers, and dog lovers Wendy Pierce and Becky Warren feature 55 hikes in this comprehensive guide to western Montana. The trails are rated easy to strenuous, with maps and photos included for each route. The authors include information not easily gleaned from...

Montana Disasters: Fires, Floods, and Other Catastrophes Author: Molly Searl Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-955-7 Pages: 220  Size: 9 x 6 For millions of years, Montana has been shaped and formed by violent shifting and thrusting within the earth’s crust. Geologically dramatic, but nothing out of the ordinary. What turned the event into a disaster was the presence of the people who were living and camping there....

Fly  Fishing Southern Colorado: An Angler’s Guide Authors: Craig Martin, Tom Knopick, John Flick Media: Paperback Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-87108-946-5 Pages: 196  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 From the majestic San Juan Mountains to the wide-open expanses of the San Luis Valley, few fishing areas rival the pristine beauty, diversity and solitude of southern Colorado’s rivers and trout streams. This guide thoroughly explores the...

Coming in summer 2011 A children’s coloring book, Animals of Alaska. A guide book, Day Hikes with Dogs: Western Montana. You won’t want to miss these. Day Hikes with Dogs: Western Montana features 55 trails, rated easy to strenuous; “dog notes” by the authors’ canine hiking partners; maps and photos for each trail; leash requirements; and availability of water for dogs’ drinking and swimming. Also for...

Tiny but Mighty By Kay Turnbaugh with Illustrations by David Brooks Imagine an insect as small as a fat grain of rice killing a tree that towers 70 feet above the forest floor. Seems impossible, doesn’t it? Not for the mighty mountain pine beetle! Learn the secrets of how this tiny insect has managed to change our western forests. Discover how the trees are fighting back, and find out what you can do during this mighty mountain pine beetle...

Master fly-tying artist and author Scott Sanchez profiles twenty of the luminary artists whose contributions to fly tying are legend, along with drawings, recipes, and gorgeous photographs of their flies. Sanchez is a professional fly tier and long-time celebrity fly fishing guide who lives in Jackson, Wyoming, where he works at Jack Dennis Outdoor Shop. The Never-Ending Stream: A Tribute to Fly-Tying Form and Function Author: Scott...

Endangered Wildlife Series Author: Lisa Rhodes Media: Paperback Price: $3.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-956-4 Pages: 32  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Mountain Press. Learn about some of the endangered animals found in the Mountain West region of the United States as you color your way through this book. Some of these animals are common, like the grizzly bear and the gray wolf. Others are more unfamiliar, such as the...

Endangered Wildlife Series Author: Lisa Rhodes Media: Paperback Price: $3.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-953-3 Pages: 32  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Mountain Press Discover some very strange and uncommon animals like the aye-aye, the tiny ring-tailed lemur, and the addax. Uncover some fascinating birds such as the pink pigeon. Find out what bird is the largest of all living birds and also the fastest on land. And, take a...

Discover the Great Outdoors Author: Mary Pruett Media: Paperback Price: $3.95 ISBN: 978-0-87108-957-1 Pages: 32  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble A coloring book for children aged 4 to 8 years. Colorful and enjoyable birds abound in the West. Their visits are a welcome sight. Western birds may nest near the water’s edge, high in the mountains, tucked in a tree, or down on the ground. This book gives...

Ghosts, Gases, & Goblins of Colorado Author: MaryJoy Martin Media: Paperback Price: $16.95 ISBN: 0-87108-954-8; 978-0-87108-954-0 Pages: 208  Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Colorado enjoys a rich, vibrant, and sometimes spooky history. Numbers of prospectors began to comb the Colorado ranges of the Rocky Mountains during the late 1850s. These unsuspecting folks and the others who followed weren’t...

If you’ve ever wondered what to do on a cold November day, or where to search for ptarmigan in winter and the first orchids of spring, then Wild Boulder County is the book for you. By tracking such seasonal occurrences as bugling elk and trumpeting sandhill cranes, authors Ruth Carol Cushman and Stephen R. Jones reveal the natural wonders of the Rocky Mountain Front Range. With photographs by Stephen Jones, a Destination Directory, and an...

A Flyfisher’s Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout Author: Harry Middleton Media: Paperback Price: $18.00 ISBN: 0871088924 Pages: 200   Size: 8.8 x 6 Standing atop the Great Smoky Mountains with a creel full of joy and heartbreak, the author of The Earth Is Enough casts a Thoreau-like eye at love, flyfishing, geology, the character of mountain folk and trout. Middleton wants readers to experience his Smoky Mountain fishing...

Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout, and Old Men Author: Harry Middleton Media: Paperback Price: $18.00 ISBN: 0871088746 Pages: 228  Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Mountain Press In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year 1965, a year rife with change in the...

Author: Pat Dorsey Media: Hardcover Price: $17.95 ISBN: 087108936X Pages: 180  Size: 11.4 x 8.7 Purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Mountain Press A Fly Fisher’s Guide to the South Platte River is a complete, illustrated how-to fly-fishing manual for the entire South Platte River drainage. It encompasses a thorough look at the each section of the river detailing the hatches and recommended fly patterns for each of the four seasons...

Third Edition Author: Betty Leavengood Media: Paperback Price: $16.95 ISBN: 0-87108-935-1 Pages: 220  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood’s third edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and...

Author: Gladys R. Bueler Media: Paperback Price: $11.95 ISBN: 0-87108-595-X Pages: 120 Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Vignettes of colorful individuals who have had an impact on Colorado’s history, including Zebulon Pike, Chief Ouray, Horace Tabor, Mollie Brown, Nicholas Creede, and cannibal Alferd Packer, whose judge said, “There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five...

Ninth Edition Authors: Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson, Duane A. Smith Media: Paperback Price: $29.95 ISBN: 0-87108-942-4 Pages: 512  Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged ninth edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place. A Colorado History studies the political, economic, cultural and environmental issues,...

Author: Erin Murphy Media: Paperback Price: $14.95 ISBN: 0-87108-899-1 Pages: 160  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble This elegant journal provides space to record the day’s catch, the stretch of river that produced so well, and what fly you used. Included are inspiring quotes to contemplate while you write from fellow anglers such as Norman MacLean, Harry Middleton, Izaak Walton, and many...

A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist Second Edition Author: C. G. Yeager Media: Paperback Price: $16.95 ISBN: 0-87108-912-2 Pages: 248  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and...

A Lesson by Lesson Approach Author: Brad Befus, John Berryman Media: Paperback Price: $21.95 ISBN: 0-87108-919-X Pages: 126  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Master the basic techniques that will allow you to tie thousands of different patterns for fly fishing with speed, ease, and efficiency. In Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying, authors Befus and Berryman accelerate the learning curve by...

  The Best of the Plains, Foothills, and Mountains Fourth Edition Author: Ruth Carol Cushman andGlenn Cushman Media: Paperback Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-87108-940-8 Pages: 252  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Mountains, plains and foothills are all within a few minutes of historic downtown Boulder, making it a hiker’s paradise. Boulder Hiking Trails is the definitive guide to this area, written...

Author: Richard F. Fleck Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-934-3 Pages: 190  Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press or Amazon Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park over forty years ago and by his pilgrimage to Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays. The mountains are a constant source of spiritual renewal, enabling him to become more aware and...

Author: Deborah Frazier Media: Paperback Price: $16.95 ISBN: 0-87108-908-4 Pages: 188  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble Colorado’s mountain landscape is home to several of nature’s own ‘hot tubs’ — idyllic geologic wonders people have treasured and enjoyed for centuries. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles more than thirty hot springs, providing descriptions,...

Author: Mary Pruett Media: Paperback Price: $3.95 ISBN: 0-87108-301-9 Pages: 32  Size: 8.5 x 11 For children aged 4 to 8 years. From bobcats and bears to racoons and rabbits, young locals and visitors will enjoy coloring these animals, birds and butterflies of the Rocky Mountains. Brief descriptions of appearance, habitat and activities will enhance their observations and discoveries of the great outdoors. About the Author Mary Pruett is the...

Author: Mary Pruett Media: Paperback Price: $4.95 ISBN: 0-87108-302-7 Pages: 32   Size: 8.5 x 11 Available from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble From the author of our popular Color the Wild Rockies comes a new nature guide/coloring book. Everyone will enjoy coloring the wildflowers that grow in the Rocky Mountains while enhancing their observation and discovery of nature. Games and quizzes add to the fun. Flower close-ups and...

Author: John Tedesco Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-933-5 Pages: 124  Size: 8 x 10 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble A brief look at modern trout fishing literature shows that we, as fly fishers, have adapted well to catching trout in still waters ranging from beaver ponds to large impoundments, including the Great Lakes. We know how to catch them in moving waters as well. In fact, we know how to catch...

Author: Matt Stone Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-914-9 Pages: 196  Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Matt Stone provides the would-be backpacker and the hiking enthusiast alike with a readable reference and practical handbook for rewarding outdoor adventures. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it...

Author: Wade Clinger Media: Paperback Price: $12.95 ISBN: 0-87108-914-9 Pages: 86  Size: 4 x 6 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble With thousands of actual waypoints ready for a GPS, this pocket-sized book is the perfect companion for exploring Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks with the latest technology in navigation. The coordinate system used for all data in this book is conventional latitude and longitude with...

Author: Steve Kolarik Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-925-4 Pages: 168  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Tucked secretly in Colorado’s beautiful and mysteriously wind carved canyons and the mountainous sub-alpine terrain of the western slope, is a treasure chest of hiking opportunity. Author Steve Kolarik is eager to share what he has known for years: Grand Junction and its...

A Trail Guide to Urban Hikes, Poudre Canyon, North Park, and Loveland Author: Melodie Edwards Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-952-1 Pages: 280  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Northern Colorado offers an exhilarating blend of recreational activities and beauty from alpine meadows and wild canyons to peaceful forests. There is plenty of room to roam among the thousands of acres of parks and...

Author: John Peel, Paul Pixler Media: Paperback Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-87108-939-4 Pages: 368  Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble The bible for hiking in southwestern Colorado, now in print for 25 years, has been thoroughly updated. The first three editions of this authoritative guide to Colorado’s hiking paradise have been bestsellers amoung seasoned and beginning hikers for years. Hiking Trails...

Author: Scott Sanchez Media: Hardback Price: $34.95 ISBN: 0-878108-931-9 Pages: 176  Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Here is a step-by-step, comprehensive guide for the novice saltwater fly tyer. A carefully crafted presentation of everything you need to know to get started and begin tying flies that are sure to bring results. Ever since man created a fly with fur and feathers to catch trout, there...

Author: Edward Blair Media: Paperback Price: $27.00 ISBN: 0-87108-665-4 Pages: 262    Size: 8.5 x 10.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble Learn about Colorado’s classic boomtown with this vivid history. The only full length book of its kind, Leadville: Colorado’s Magic City is a highly readable, well researched people’s history filled with the lore and magic that made Leadville great.   ...

The Way of the High-Country Angler Author: Craig Martin Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-896-7 Pages: 184    Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble Armed with basic skills that are easy to execute and fun to learn, anyone can fish mountain water with this helpful guide and savor the pleasures of high-altitude fishing. Mountain Water offers exciting challenges for both beginner and veteran...

A Collection of Ideas, Notions, Hints, & Variations on the Techniques of Fly Tying Second Edition Author: A. K. Best Media: Paperback Price: $39.95 ISBN: 0-87108-929-7 Pages: 192    Size: 9 x 10.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes and Noble This expanded new edition to tying techniques, tools, and materials includes 299 superb, four-color photographs and tried-and-true, time-saving tips, along with concise and comprehensive...

Yuletide Stories of the West Author: John H. Monnett Media: Paperback Price: $14.95 ISBN: 0-87108-906-8 Pages: 190    Size: 5 x 7 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes and Noble Even under the most extreme conditions our pioneer ancestors kept the festive spirit alive in their hearts and frontier homes. From Lewis and Clark’s first Christmas in the Rockies to the generous gift that changes a widow and her children’s...

A Guide to Hiking, Biking, and Skiing in Southwestern Colorado Author: Jeff La Frenierre Media: Paperback Price: $25.00 ISBN: 0-87108-909-2 Pages: 256    Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press or Amazon This guide will satisfy outdoor recreationists’ thirst for adventure with descriptions of more than sixty scenic trails to hike, gnarly single tracks to bike, and winter wonderlands to ski. Covering the entire region of the San...

Spirits, Spooks, and Sprites of the San Juan Author: MaryJoy Martin Media: Paperback Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-87108-913-0 Pages: 212    Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble Let this book introduce you to the old-timers of San Juan County, Colorado. They are a colourful lot of characters — miners, barmaids, men in search of fortune, and brave pioneers — who have been around since the Gold Rush and...

A Pocket Guide Author: Don Scarmuzzi Media: Paperback Price: $19.95 ISBN: 0-87108-938-6 Pages: 150    Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble A handy pocket guide for the day hiker with easy-to-follow directions to the high country and peaks surrounding Telluride. This colorful, handy pocket guide for the day hiker incorporates easy-to-follow directions to the high country and peaks surrounding Telluride...

A Family’s Joys and Sorrows in the Beautiful, Remote Yampa River Canyon Author: Queeda Mantle Walker Media: Paperback Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-87108-350-7 Pages: 288 Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble Queeda Mantle was born on a March day in 1933. In anticipation of her birth, her parents started by horseback out of the remote Yampa Canyon in Northwest Colorado. They were headed for Vernal, Utah,...

  A Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West Author:Harriet Fish Backus Media: Paperback Price: $16.95 ISBN: 0-87108-512-7 Pages: 318    Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon or Barnes & Noble A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by...

20th Anniversary Edition Author: John Gierach Media: Hardback Price: $29.95 ISBN: 0-87108-944-0 Pages: 240    Size: 6 x 9 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble There’s no telling how many anglers have quit their jobs and headed west after reading the first edition of this classic collection of fly-fishing essays. “If you enjoy incisive comment, wry humor, and some inventive insight into trout and trout...

Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives Author: James Sheeler Media: Hardback Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-87108-943-2 Pages: 256    Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble “Obit. is a collection of narrative obituaries that bring to life the recently deceased. Sheeler gets to the heart of each of his subjects, offering us a feast of lives well-lived: some mundane, some comic, and,...

The Vintage Years 1870-1938 Author: James Bretz Media: Paperback Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-87108-937-8 Pages: 196    Size: 8.5 x 11 Purchase from Mountain Press, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble Bretz profiles more than 80 mansions, and each history if replete with stunning photographs–exteriors turreted and exquisitely detailed; interiors bedecked with crystal chandeliers, Grecian columns, elaborate wood etchings, and Tiffany stained glass. ...

With more than 150 photos, maps, timelines and drawings, Discover Colorado involves the student with active, colorful pages. Organized in six units of two chapters each, Discover Colorado highlights specially designed features in each chapter that will increase reading comprehension and understanding. Discover Colorado meets the new Colorado content standards. Its People, Places, and Times By Matthew Downey & Ty Bliss Discover...