An Isolated Empire: A History of Northwest Colorado BLM Cultural Resource Series (Colorado: No. 12)

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_______. "Egeria Park As I Remember It". Colorado Magazine. XL, #4, 1963. pp. 300-309.

Theses and Dissertations

Crowley, John M. "Ranches in the Sky". Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1964. Ph.D. Dissertation.

Hamann, R. E. "A Bibliography of the Cultural Development in Northwestern Colorado". Boulder: University of Colorado., n.d., M.A. Thesis.

Iden, T. L. "History of the Ute Indian Cessions of Colorado". Gunnison, Colorado: Western State College, 1928. M.A. Thesis.

Nixon, Elizabeth. "The Meeker Massacre". Greeley, Colorado: Colorado State Teachers College, 1935. M.A. Thesis.

Oberholtzer, Cora Belle. "The Grazing Industry of Middle Park, Colorado". Boulder: University of Colorado, 1942. M.A. Thesis.

Perini, V. C. "Oil Reconnaissance in Northwestern Colorado". Boulder: University of Colorado, n.d. M.A. Thesis.

Spiva, Agnes E. "The Utes in Colorado". Boulder: University of Colorado, 1929. M.A. Thesis.