Pikes Peak Backcountry: The Historic Saga of the Peak's West Slope

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

This is the story of the other side of Colorado's best-known mountain- the region west of Pikes Peak.  It includes stories of the first settlers and the founders of towns.  It also tells of the bust years between world wars when the railroad tracks were pulled up and many communities vanished.