Summit County, Colorado Printed Resources
Summit County, Colorado

List of Printed Resources




The following list was originally published online by the
Union List of Western Histories for Colorado, compiled by Karen Griggs.
The editor of this website has made additions to the original list.

It is a fantastic collection of printed material available for
researchers of all kinds on the Summit County area.



Original List
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/catalogwebsite/KarenGriggsPages/summitcounty.htm




Summit County, Colorado, County Information Service. Ft. Collins: Colorado State University. Cooperative Extension Service. Community Resource Development Project, 1973-.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- Statistics/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Economic conditions/Summit County (Colo.) -- Social conditions.

Aldrich, John Kenneth. Ghosts of Summit County: a Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Summit County, Colorado. Lakewood, Colo.: Centennial Graphics, c1986.
     Subjects: Ghost towns -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Mining camps -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Mines and mineral resources -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County -- History.

***Auge, Ed. Ed Auge's History of the Breckenridge Mining District 1859 -1937.  Las Vegas, Nev.: Marion Street Publishing Co., 2003.

Subjects: Summit County (Colo.), Mining / Miners, History.

Ault, Perry. Perry Ault's From Oxen to Jet Planes. Steamboat Springs, Colo.: Steamboat Pilot, 1971.
     Subjects: Ault, Perry, 1867-1970/ Ranch life -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County (Colo.)      -- Biography/ Grand County (Colo.) -- Biography.

*Bancroft, Caroline. The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, c.1956. 

Subjects: Colorado -- Lake County -- Leadville -- Denver -- History -- Biography.

Beck, Christine Safford. Spirit of Summit County, Colorado: a Photographic Celebration. Bryn Mawr, Penn.: PrismLight Press, c1996.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- Pictorial works.

Castrone, Linda. The Insiders' Guide to Colorado's Mountains Including the Summit County, Vail      and Aspen Areas. Manteo, NC.: Insiders' Pub., 1998.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- Description and travel/ Vail (Colo.) -- Description and travel/ Aspen (Colo.) -- Description and travel/ Mountains -- Colorado, Northwest -- Description and      travel.

Castrone, Linda and Steve Lipsher. Colorado's Mountains: Including the Summit County, Vail and Aspen Areas. 2nd ed. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Pub., 2000.
     Subjects: Colorado -- Guidebooks/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Guidebooks/ Vail (Colo.) --  Guidebooks/ Aspen (Colo.) -- Guidebooks/ Mountains -- Colorado -- Guidebooks.

*Donaldson, Susan. Summit's Courthouse: Its Past, Pictures and People. Silverthorne, Colo.: Alpenrose Press, c2000.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- History.

Dyer, John Lewis. Tracking the Snow-shoe Itinerant. Breckenridge, Colo.: Snowstorm Pub., c1981.
     Subjects: Dyer, John Lewis, 1812- / Summit County (Colo.) -- Description and travel/ Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel.

Fulmer, Marion, Elaine Hoagland, and Suzanne Pedersen. Women as Tall as Our Mountains: Mini- biographies of Summit County Women. Summit County, Colo: 1976, 1980.
     Subjects: Women -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Women.

Gilliland, Mary Ellen. Breckenridge! Silverthorne, Colo.: Alpenrose Press, 1988.
     Subjects: Ghost towns -- Colorado -- Breckenridge Region/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks/ Breckenridge (Colo.) -- Description -- Guidebooks.

Gilliland, Mary Ellen. Lula, a Portrait in Pictures and Prose of a Keystone, Colorado Family. Keystone, Colo: The Summit Historical Society, 1990.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- History/ Myers family/ Keystone (Colo.) -- History/ Summit County (Colo.).

Gilliland, Mary Ellen. Summit: a Gold Rush History of Summit County, Colorado. Silverthorne, 
     Colo.: Alpenrose Press, c1980.
     Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County (Colo.) -- 
     History/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Gold discoveries.

Gordman, Ellen. The Local Lowdown. Omaha, Neb.: Powder Hound Press, c1993.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- Guidebooks.

Grabau, Alison. Summit Pioneers. 1999.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- History/ Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Summit 
     County/ Land Settlement -- Colorado -- Summit County.

Lowe, Ruby. Reflections of Ruby. Silverthorne, Colo.: Alpenrose Press, c1987.
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- History/ Ruby Ranch -- Colorado -- Summit County.

Pritchard, Sandra F. Dillon: Denver and the Dam. Dillon, Colo.: Summit Historical Society, 1994.
     Subjects: Dillon Dam (Colo.) -- History/ Dams -- Colorado/ Summit County (Colo.) -- History/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Historical geography/ Dillon (Colo.) -- History.

***Mather, Sandra F. Behind Swinging Doors; The Saloons of Breckenridge and Summit County, Colorado 1859 - 1900.  Breckenridge, Colo.: Town of Breckenridge, 2003.  

Subjects: saloons, society, history.

Pritchard, Sandra F. Men, Mining & Machines: Hardrock Mining in Summit County, Colorado.     Dillon, Colo.: Summit Historical Society, c1996.
     Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- Summit County -- History.
     Pritchard, Sandra F. Roadside Summit. Dillon, Colo.: Summit Historical Society, c1992.
     Subjects: Landscape -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Description and travel.

Pritchard, Sandra F. Southern Summit: a Geographer's Perspective. Summit Historical Society, 1984.
     Subjects: Mining engineering -- Colorado -- Summit County/ Summit County (Colo.) -- Historical      geography.

Roller, Elizabeth. Memoirs from Montezuma, Chihuahua & Sts. John. Summit Historical Society, 19??
     Subjects: Summit County (Colo.) -- History/ Rice family.

Sharp, Verna. A History of Montezuma, Sts. John, and Argentine: Early Mining Camps of Summit County. Montezuma, Colo.: Summit Historical Society, 1971.
     Subjects: Mining camps -- Colorado -- Summit County -- History/ Montezuma (Colo.) -- History/ Sts. John (Colo.) -- History/ Argentine (Colo.) -- History.

Stull, Bob and Lynn Stull. Snake River Country: the Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado. 1971.
     Subjects: Summit County -- Description and travel/ Ghost towns -- Summit County -- Guides.

Thweatt, Roger C., Ph.D. Ghost Town Sites Along Boreas Pass. Breckenridge, Colo., McGraphix Creative, Ltd., 2010. 

Subjects: Summit County -- Description and travel / Ghost Towns -- Guides.

Walter, Douglas S. Historic Sites in Summit County, Colorado: a Consultant Report to the Board of County Commissioners. 1976.
     Subjects: Historic sites -- Colorado/ Historic districts -- Colorado/ Summit County (Colo.) -- History.

* Look Up's Available

**Name Index available on line, see Summit County, Colorado Trails to the Past Special Projects Page







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