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Bibliography
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This list of materials represents the
materials that are available for Moffat County. All of the titles
listed here have information about the people or places of Moffat. Most
of these books can be borrowed from your local library through their
Inter-Library Loan (ILL) program.
Never interlibrary loaned? Read this .... If you haven't tried Interlibrary Loan (ILL) please read the following : If there is a book below that is not in your local library, speak to your reference librarian or the circulation desk. Most libraries participate in ILL. You'll need all the given information for the desired book I've shown below (author, title, publishing company and date). From there the library will put in a request with all the participating libraries. Expect to pay a small fee for this service. Once your library has received the book you requested, they will call, email, or mail a card notifying you that it's arrived. If you're unable to ILL a book of interest, a search of the Web might reveal an online store where you can purchase it. Note : Most of the books below are held by the Moffat County library in Craig.
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General Moffat County |
| 1907 Routt County Brand Book. Before Moffat County, there was Routt. |
| Babcock, Harold R., Historic Highlights of Moffat County and Surrounding Areas. |
| Babcock, Harold R., History of the rural schools of Moffat County, Colorado : from their humble beginnings to their consolidation in 1959. 1990. (Relates the homesteader boom of the early 20th century that had so much effect on the rural school population of that era.) |
| Babcock, Harold,. Place names and landmarks in Moffat County. 2004. |
| Burroughs, John Rolfe, Where the Old West Stayed Young. William Morrow and Company, 1962. The story of Brown's Park. |
| Burton, Doris Karren, Blue Mountain Folks : their lives & legends. 1987. |
| Calvin, Suzanne, Biscuits and Wool : the Story of Ralph Karr Warrick, Settler and Sheepman in Moffat and Routt Counties Colorado. Denver, Colo. : S. Calvin, c1978. |
| Eberle, Janet, We homesteaded. 1981. |
| FitzPatrick, V. S., The Last Frontier. 1976. |
| FitzPatrick, V. S., The Arbuckle Cafe : Classic Cowboy Stories. 1999. ("When cattle moved into Moffat County....professional cowpunchers came with them...") |
| Greager, George E., We Shall Fall as the Leaves. (A history of the Ute's removal from Colorado.) |
| Hurt, Kathy, Between the Bookcliffs and the blue. 1987. |
| Jones-Eddy, Julie, Homesteading Women 1890-1950. Interviews with women from Moffat County and Rio Blanco County, CO. |
| Miller, Mark E., Hollow Victory : the White River Expedition of 1879 and the Battle of Milk Creek. University Press of Colorado, c1997. |
| VanDorn, Perry, Flickering Lights in Vacant Windows - A History of J. W. Hugus and Co. (The story of a chain of mercantile stores located in Craig and other nearby areas.) |
| Walker, Queeda Mantle, Last Ranch in Hells Canyon. 2009. |
| Walker, Queeda Mantle, The Mantle Ranch : a family's joys and sorrows in the beautiful remote Yampa River canyon. 2005. |
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Moffat Road |
| Albi, Charles and Kenton Forrest, The Moffat Tunnel, A Brief History. Golden, Colorado: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1978. |
| Barkalow Brothers., Over the Rockies to the Top of the World on the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (Moffat Road). 1910. |
| Bauer, Frederick, The Roadmaster's Guide To The Moffat Road!. The Denver & Salt Lake Historical Society, 2004. |
| Black, Archibald. The Story of Tunnels, New York: Whittlesey House, 1937. |
| Black, Robert C.III, Island in the Rockies. Grandby, Colorado: Grand County Pioneer Society, 1969. |
| Bollinger, Edward Taylor, Rails That Climb. Santa Fe: Rydel Press, 1950. |
| Bollinger, Edward Taylor, Rails That Climb - A Narrative History of the Moffat Road. Golden, Colorado: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1979. |
| Bollinger, Frederick T. & Frederick Bauer, The Moffat Road. Denver: Sage Books, 1962. |
| Clarke, Allan G., The Moffat Tunnel: A Railfan's Perspective. Flagstop Railbooks, 2002. |
| Cornell, Virginia, Doc Susie - The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies. |
| Crossen, Forest, Western Yesterdays, David Moffat's Hill Men. Fort Collins, Colorado: Robidon Press, 1976. |
| Griswald, P.R. "Bob", David Moffat's Denver Northwestern And Pacific, "The Moffat Road." Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1995. |
| Griswald, P.R. "Bob", Denver And Salt Lake Railroad 1913-1926. Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1996. |
| Griswold, P.R. "Bob", Before The Moffat Tunnel. Sherm Conners Publishing, 2006. |
| Jones, Thomas Wallace. Over the "Moffat Road" to the Top of the World. Cincinnati : Tom Jones Art Pub. Co., 1911. |
| Jones, William C., & Elizabeth B. Jones, The Railroad, Cityscape and Landscape Photographs of L.C. McClure. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing, 1983. |
| McMechen, Edgar Carlisle, The Moffat Tunnel of Colorado. Denver: The Wahlgreen Publishing Company, 1927, two volumes. |
| Monroe, Gregory, Moffat, Rio Grande-Southern Pacific-Union Pacific, West of Denver, Colorado. Fox Publications, 1997. |
| Neimes, Matthew J., Structures Of The Moffat Tunnel, Vol. 1. Lakewood, Colorado, Matthew J. Neimes, 1991. |
| Sundquist, Elizabeth Josephson, Dismantling The Rails That Climb. The Grand County Historical Association, 1997. |
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Outlaws
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| Baker, Pearl, The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost. |
| Drago, Gail, Etta Place, Her Life and Times with Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. |
| DeJournette, Dick & Dawn, One Hundred Years of Brown's Park and Diamond Mountain, by Dick and Daun DeJournette. |
| Dullenty, Jim. Harry Tracy: The Last Desperado. |
| Ellison, Douglas W., David Lant - The Vanished Outlaw. (The story of outlaws David Lant & Harry Tracy.) |
| Ernst, Donna B., Sundance, My Uncle. 1992. (The story of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. ) |
| Kelly, Charles, The Outlaw Trail, A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch. |
| Kouris, Diana Allen, The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park. 1988. |
| Meadows, Anne, Digging up Butch and Sundance. Bison Books, 2003. |
| McClure, Grace, Bassett Women. (The Bassett Ranch was a hangout for many Moffat County outlaws. Basset family interviews.) |
| Patterson, Richard, Butch Cassidy : A Biography. Bisn Books : 1998. |
| Pointer, Larry, In Search of Butch Cassidy. (A study of the possibility that Robert LeRoy Parker aka Butch Cassidy who returned from Bolivia to live out his life as William T. Phillips in Spokane, WA.) |