Relates the stories of some three dozen women who, from the 1850s to the 1980s, ventured into the Colorado Rockies pursuing their own aims largely independent of male guidance or assistance.

"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...

From the time of Coronado's discovery to the era of modern ski resorts, men have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. The author traces the range's colorful history.

William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul...

Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher.

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Describes significant historic towns, cities, and natural wonders of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

A genuine western classic. The story of Kelsey Cameron, a Scottish immigrant who travels to the high cattle country of the Rockies to live the freedom and self-determination he is denied in his homeland, and of his wife and daughter.

On t.p.: A field guide to Rocky Mountain wildflowers from northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia.

Provides information about the Rockies, a mountain chain that stretches around three thousand miles from Alaska to the state of New Mexico, discussing the different climate zones found in the mountains, the plants and animals of the Rockies, and the history and legends associated with them.

Grieving the death of his partner, Theo Bosco has no room in his life for distractions. Though his instincts scream that he should avoid Juliet 'Jules' Jackson, he can't seem to stay away. It doesn't help that Theo's new K9 companion has fallen head over paws with Jules's rambunctious family. Or that when he's with her, Theo finally knows peace. When Jules rescued her siblings, whisking them away to the safety of the beautifully rugged Colorado Rockies,...