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Resources from our LOC team, stories, histories, and tales that shaped Colorado
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Librarians Reading List
Mountains and Mesas: A Southwest Colorado Regional Reading List
Southwest Colorado’s History and Heritage Museums
Archuleta:
-San Juan Historical Museum, Pagosa Springs
-Heritage Center under development (Gomez store, Fred Harman cabin, Fort Lewis officers cabin, Hott local rancher cabin), Pagosa Springs/Archuleta Co fairgrounds
Dolores:
-Rico Historical Museum, Rico
Hinsdale:
-Hinsdale County Museum, Lake City
La Plata:
-Animas Museum, Durango
-Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College campus
-Durango Silverton NG RR Roundhouse Museum, Durango
-Pine River Valley Heritage Society, Bayfield
-Powerhouse Science Center, Durango
-Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio
Montezuma:
-Canyon of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, Dolores
-Cortez Cultural Center, Cortez
-Galloping Goose Historical Society Museum, Dolores
-Mancos Museum, Mancos
-Mesa Verde National Park Visitor Center
-Montezuma Heritage Museum, Cortez
-Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park
Ouray:
-Ouray Alchemist Museum, Ouray
-Ouray County Museum, Ouray
-Ouray County Ranch History Museum, Ridgway
-Ridgway Railroad Museum, Ridgway
San Juan:
-San Juan County Historical Society Mining Heritage Center, Silverton
San Miguel:
-Telluride Historical Museum, Telluride
-Wright’s Mesa Historical Society and Log Cabin Museum, Norwood
Map of the LOC
All the counties involved in the Southwest Colorado 150 efforts.

Past Newsletters

Colorado and President Johnson (Andrew, that is)
Colorado statehood could have been nearly a decade earlier but President Andrew Johnson had reservations (and motives)

Colorado Leads the States in Women’s Suffrage
Well before the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Centennial State was the first, through election, to enable women to vote. All the voters that day were men, most of whom knew what was good for them.

Cowboy, the best horse…
Bayfield lays claim to one of the foundation sires for the Quarter Horse breed, the horse that won the West.