{"title":"Colorado","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile reprints of Sanborn fire insurance atlases, county and state atlases, and other historical works for Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1900-little-gem-brand-book-wyoming-montana-colorado-dakota-nebraska-cattle-1","title":"1900 Little Gem Brand Book: Wyoming Montana Colorado Dakota Nebraska Cattle","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle Gem Brand Book. Continuation of Big Four Brand Book. Contains Brands of Cattle and Horses of the Range District of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming (where the water runs East), Northeast Colorado and Nebraska. The only Brand Book where the Ear Marks are shown in the Cut of Cattle, and the only one that will receive any or all Brands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a paperback facsimile copy of the original book published in 1900 by the Little Gem Brand Book Co. out of Kansas City. 194 pages in black and white, 6” x 9”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes index of brands and numerous cattle illustrations, also packed with advertisements. Unlike other brand books of the time, the Little Gem was \"controlled by no Association or State,\" making it a private commercial venture that competed with the association-published brand books. The book gathered brands new in 1899 for the fall work of 1900 and was notable for its detailed illustrations showing ear marks directly on cattle illustrations, providing a more comprehensive visual reference for identifying livestock across the northern plains region.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872363389083,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358109713448","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_7ebc75b7-2dfe-445a-a639-ab02096bac2e.jpg?v=1792531602"},{"product_id":"1898-atlas-of-the-geology-of-the-aspen-district-colorado","title":"1898 Atlas of the Geology of the Aspen District, Colorado","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in Washington in 1898 by the United States Geological Survey under Director Charles D. Walcott, with lithography by Julius Bien \u0026amp; Co. of New York, this atlas accompanied Monograph XXXI on the geology of the Aspen District, Colorado — Josiah Edward Spurr's landmark study of one of the great silver camps of the Rockies, prepared with Samuel Franklin Emmons as geologist in charge. This edition is a complete, unabridged facsimile of all thirty sheets, with the original color lithography reproduced in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas descends through four scales of increasing detail: the Aspen Atlas Sheet at nearly a mile to the inch; the Aspen District sheets at half a mile to the inch; the Aspen, Tourtelotte Park, Hunter Park, and Lenado Special sheets at 800 feet to the inch; and the mining district sheets — Tourtelotte Park, Aspen Mountain, Smuggler Mountain, and Lenado — at 300 feet to the inch, their mine workings compiled from original mine maps furnished by the mine managers themselves. Each area is presented in paired topography and geology sheets, followed by vertical sections keyed to the maps, with the Leadville formation, its bedding faults, and the glacial drift of the valleys rendered in the strong color fills of the survey's lithography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at the close of Aspen's silver era, these sheets preserve the underground geography of the Smuggler and Aspen Mountain workings in government-survey precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for mining historians, geologists, and collectors of Colorado and Western mining history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872454385819,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358888823833","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_03cd0120-36f4-4a90-8ac8-588aba80d65a.jpg?v=1792532336"},{"product_id":"1881-geological-and-geographical-atlas-of-colorado","title":"1881 Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a complete color facsimile of the Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and Portions of Adjacent Territory, prepared under F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist in Charge, and published by the Department of the Interior, United States Geological and Geographical Surveys of the Territories, Washington, in 1881, with lithography by Julius Bien. This is the corrected second edition, updated from the 1877 first edition, and all twenty sheets of the original atlas are reproduced in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas presents the results of the Hayden Survey's field seasons of 1873 through 1876, covering the entire State of Colorado and adjacent portions of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Four state-wide maps at twelve miles to the inch — the Triangulation Map, Drainage Map, Economic Map, and General Geological Map — are followed by twelve regional sheets at four miles to the inch: six topographical and six geological, covering Northwestern, Northern Central, Central, Western, Southwestern, and Southern Central Colorado, with contours at approximately two-hundred-foot intervals. Two sheets of colored geological sections and two sheets of panoramic views complete the atlas. The primary triangulation was carried out by J. T. Gardner and completed by A. D. Wilson; the preparation of the colored sheets was entrusted to W. H. Holmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark of nineteenth-century American cartography and an essential reference for geologists, historians of the American West, and collectors of Colorado history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872454418587,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358888823838","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_4ce33acc-0274-4b29-ba42-af3fa5c9b505.jpg?v=1792532337"},{"product_id":"railroad-depots-of-the-colorado-narrow-gauge-volume-1","title":"Railroad Depots of the Colorado Narrow Gauge, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1910 and 1920 the Sanborn Map Company surveyed the depot towns of Colorado's San Luis Valley and San Juan country, drawing every building at fifty feet to the inch for fire insurance underwriters. This volume reproduces 38 selected sheets from eight of those surveys in full color from the Library of Congress originals — the sheets that show each town's railroad ground: depots, engine houses, yards, water tanks, and the warehouse rows that lived off the rails. The complete surveys ran to more sheets than are reproduced here; this volume presents the railroad core of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe towns are Alamosa, Monte Vista, Del Norte, Creede, Antonito, Pagosa Springs, Durango, and Silverton. Alamosa's sheets carry the paired freight and passenger depots and the yards that bisect the town. Antonito's stone depot stands drawn in blue — the surveyor's color for masonry — inside its junction wye, beside an engine house, water tank, and inclined coal trestle. Durango's sheets include the passenger depot, a ten-stall roundhouse with turntable, and a full-page smelter threaded with narrow gauge sidings. Silverton packs the depots and sidings of four railroads into seven sheets, and Creede's follow the rails up Willow Creek past a station the surveyors had already marked \"formerly R.R. Station.\" Every sheet is reproduced without enhancement from the Library of Congress scans, with the original color key — yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone — intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 of the Railroad Depots of the Colorado Narrow Gauge series: an essential reference for model railroaders, railroad historians, and collectors of Colorado history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e60 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872456777883,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820073699044","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_5afbae1d-d256-480a-b471-ef53454a89f9.jpg?v=1792532352"},{"product_id":"railroad-depots-of-the-colorado-narrow-gauge-volume-2","title":"Railroad Depots of the Colorado Narrow Gauge, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1899 and 1919 the Sanborn Map Company mapped the depot towns of Colorado's Uncompahgre valley and the Rio Grande Southern's mountain loop, drawing every building at fifty feet to the inch for fire insurance underwriters. This volume reproduces 30 selected sheets from nine of those surveys in full color from the Library of Congress originals — the sheets that show each town's railroad ground: depots, water tanks, ore houses, sampling works, and the warehouse rows that lived off the rails. The complete surveys ran to more sheets than are reproduced here; this volume presents the railroad core of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe towns are Montrose, Delta, Ouray, Lake City, Ridgway, Telluride, Rico, Dolores, and Mancos. Montrose's yard tracks are lettered \"STANDARD GAUGE \u0026amp; NARROW GAUGE\" on the map itself, between facing freight and passenger depots. Telluride's fourteen-sheet survey is effectively a five-town atlas, its insets carrying depots at the Ophir Loop and Placerville along with Telluride's own depot grounds. Ouray's outlying sheets reach the mines of Ironton and Red Mountain on sidings lettered \"Silverton \u0026amp; Red Mountain R.R.\" Dolores's combination depot faces its shipper row with \"NARROW GAUGE\" spelled along the main track, and Rico's 1899 survey — made under the Sanborn-Perris imprint — records a mining district's ore houses and sampling works, nearly all marked \"not running.\" Every sheet is reproduced without enhancement from the Library of Congress scans, with the original color key — yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone — intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 of the Railroad Depots of the Colorado Narrow Gauge series: an essential reference for model railroaders, railroad historians, and collectors of Colorado history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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This volume reproduces 44 selected sheets from nine of those surveys in full color from the Library of Congress originals — the sheets that show each town's railroad ground: depots, engine houses, water tanks, yards, and the smelters drawn on their webs of sidings. The complete surveys ran to more sheets than are reproduced here; this volume presents the railroad core of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe towns are Cañon City, Silver Cliff, Salida, Buena Vista, Leadville, Red Cliff, Kokomo, Gunnison, and Crested Butte. The centerpiece is Leadville's great survey of 1895 — twenty plates here, opening with the survey's own decorative title page and graphic index — with three railroads' grounds: a depot-grounds sheet of freight house and waiting rooms, a freight house lettered for the Denver, Leadville \u0026amp; Gunnison, and the Colorado Midland's engine house, turntable, and two-story passenger station, plus outlying panels reaching Granite, Minturn, Kokomo, and Robinson. Salida's first sheet carries a dedicated large-scale panel of its depot grounds, the Gunnison branch labeled \"(Narrow Gauge)\" by the surveyors themselves. Kokomo's single 1886 sheet holds a combination depot, circular water tank, and three smelters marked \"closed \u0026amp; mach'y removed,\" and Cañon City's depot faces the Royal Gorge Hotel across a multi-track corridor. Every sheet is reproduced without enhancement from the Library of Congress scans, with the original color key — yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone — intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 of the Railroad Depots of the Colorado Narrow Gauge series: an essential reference for model railroaders, railroad historians, and collectors of Colorado history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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This volume reproduces 62 selected sheets from ten of those surveys in full color from the Library of Congress originals — the sheets that show each town's railroad ground: depots, turntables, car barns, and the mills and mines on their sidings. The complete surveys ran to more sheets than are reproduced here; this volume presents the railroad core of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe towns are Alma, Breckenridge, Pitkin, Golden, Georgetown with Silver Plume, Idaho Springs, Central City with Black Hawk, Florence, Cripple Creek, and Victor with Goldfield. Florence's 1912 survey carries a roundhouse lettered \"Florence \u0026amp; Cripple Creek R.R.\" at its yard throat and wye, an \"Old R.R. Depot\" in use as a warehouse beside it. The 1919 surveys of Cripple Creek and Victor draw the gold camp under the Midland Terminal's lettering — passenger depots at both towns, an outlying depot at the Elkton mine, an electric railway surviving as car barns, and famous mines annotated \"closed.\" Central City's twelve sheets map four communities, a switchback grade, Black Hawk's depot and turntable, and the Gilpin Tramway's engine house and trestles; Silver Plume's station anchors the Georgetown set; Breckenridge's depot stands on a track lettered \"(Narrow Gauge) Main Track\"; and Pitkin's single sheet carries its frame depot and octagonal stone water tank. 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