History Colorado Bookshop

Welcome to the History Colorado Bookshop! We’ve curated a unique series of books to unite you with the people, places and stories of Colorado and the American West.  

 

Through our partnership with Bookshop.org, your purchase helps History Colorado fulfill our commitment to foster cultural understanding, preserve and protect the physical, cultural, and emotional places that are important to our communities, and encourage appreciation of what makes Colorado Colorado.

 

The Sand Creek Massacre
New Poets of Native Nations
Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry
Decolonize Museums
Cheyenne Dictionary
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat
Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, Creativity
A Northern Cheyenne Album: Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis
Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses
Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems (Revised)
She Had Some Horses
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Crazy Brave
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado
For a Girl Becoming: Volume 66
An American Sunrise: Poems
Catching the Light
Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960
A Young Innovator's Guide to Stem: 5 Steps to Problem Solving for Students, Educators, and Parents
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects
Pleas and Petitions: Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects
Colorado Day by Day
A Civil War Scrapbook: I Was There Too!
The Denver Artists Guild: Its Founding Members; An Illustrated History
Denver Inside & Out
Life and Times of Richard Castro: Bridging a Cultural Divide
Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing
On Colfax Avenue: A Victorian Childhood
Mining Among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom
Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat
The Santa Fe Trail: New Perspectives
Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase
Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
The Queen of Denver: Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
On Colfax Avenue: A Victorian Childhood
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Lucky Hat Mine
In the Company of Like-Minded Women
Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High
Market Street Madam
Sisters in Spirit
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
William Henry Jackson's the Pioneer Photographer
Von Miller
Von Miller
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and South Park
The Push: A Climber's Search for the Path
La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
The Forgotten Heroes & Villains of Sand Creek
The House That Love Built: Why I Opened My Door to Immigrants and How We Found Hope Beyond a Broken System
Swimming with Faith: The Missy Franklin Story
Mikaela Shiffrin
Major General Maurice Rose: World War II's Greatest Forgotten Commander
Lindsey Vonn
Back-Tracking in Memory: The Life of Charles M. Russell, Artist Recollections, Reflections and Personal Perspectives by Nancy Cooper Russell
Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects
Colorado Day by Day
The Principled Politician: Governor Ralph Carr and the Fight Against Japanese American Internment
Rabbit Boss
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition (Revised and Updated)
There There
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Colcha
The Comanche Empire
Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Plainsong
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Two Years Before the Mast
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 5th Edition
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
The Fort Restaurant Cookbook: New Foods of the Old West from the Landmark Colorado Restaurant
Adobe Up Close: The Beauty of Buildings Made of Mud
Pleas and Petitions: Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
Rise, Do Not Be Afraid
Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Braiding Sweetgrass
The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas
Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World
La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado
Sabrina & Corina: Stories
At the End of the Santa Fe Trail
Death Comes for the Archbishop
On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado
Best Hikes with Dogs Colorado
Back-Tracking in Memory: The Life of Charles M. Russell, Artist Recollections, Reflections and Personal Perspectives by Nancy Cooper Russell
Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic
Five Points Neighborhood of Denver
Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism
From Small Wins to Sweeping Change: Working Together to Foster Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism in Museums
Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects
Colorado's Daring Ivy Baldwin: Aviator, Aerialist and Aeronaut
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything
Sabrina & Corina: Stories
Daughters of the West Mesa
Here Lies Lalo: The Collected Poems of Abelardo Delgado
Bless Me, Ultima (Anniversary)