Non-Fiction by Perry Eberhart 

In its time and into today, this book was considered to be the most complete book ever published about the mining camps of Colorado. It has become a standard “must” book for anyone exploring and discovering the richness of the region’s history.  Jeep and mountaineering clubs used this book as their ‘bibles,’ their main resource for exploration and historical perspectives.

The book divides the state into two dozen areas with a detailed maps for each, including travel hints, directions, and comments in the text supplement to the maps. Over 100 photographs, some printed here for the first time, show most of the towns as they once were and as they are today.

Over 800 towns are covered in this book, many never described before in any book of its kind. About 100 are still lively towns, the others ghosts.  Eberhart tells briefly or in length the history of each town; important events, chief nearby mines, what remains today, stories of the men and women who passed through, of the newspapers and railroads, and of fortunes made, lost or imagined.  In short, the fascinating life of the hundreds of towns that helped create the great state of Colorado.

Sage Books (1959/1969)

Now published by Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

This book can be found at ohioswallow.com, fine bookstores and online booksellers.