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There are fish to be caught on the fly wherever you live, and "Beyond Trout" will take you to the waters in your own backyard and teach you how to catch the fish that swim there.

Barry Reynolds & John Berryman use a seasonal approach to teach you everything you need to know to catch northerns, tigers, and muskies on a fly.

Set in Wisconsin during the social turmoil and budding psychological science of the early 1970s, and inspired by actual events, Willa's pursuit of the source of her visions and fluency in French (a condition called xenoglossia) unearths an unlikely archaeological discovery and a shocking truth that changes her life forever.

Take a journey into the literary landscape of Colorado.

Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail is a how-to book for bike-packing the 535-mile Colorado Trail. It includes all the important information a mountain biker needs to know. This book is not meant as an exhaustive data source, but is a companion resource that includes bike-specific information missed by other Colorado Trail guidebooks.

A collection of essays and reviews written during the many years author and poet Kurt Brown taught craft classes. It is for writers who want to hone their craft and for readers with an interest in understanding how poetry works at a deeper level.

Whether pondering the delights of Dairy Queen or dry martinis, Joy Roulier Sawyer's refreshing blend of genuine reverence and sly humor never fails to entertain, exhort, and enlighten. Tracing life from bucolic Kansas swimming pools to blood-soaked urban streets, the poet offers a lasting vision of deep, unapologetic affection--a rare balm in a cynical age.

This is a book of stories and songs and song-like stories celebrating American vernacular and the people who inhabit the land.

Biographies of six Colorado "ladies of pleasure," whose parlor houses were scandalous ornaments to the whole state, make amusing reading.

The rollicking story of Molly Brown, the Leadville waitress, who reached the top of Newport society -- and a permanent place in American lore -- as a heroine of the Titanic disaster.

Author of eco-classics such as The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey reveals all his rough-hewn edges and passionate beliefs in this witty, outspoken, maddening, and sometimes brilliant selection of journal entries that takes the writer from his early years as a park ranger and would-be literary author up to his death in 1989.

In this hilarious, poignant, over-the-top Western, readers are introduced to Jim O'Brien who is writing a quixotic saga of his ancestors who grew up with a tribe of Comanche.

With provocative insights on every page and a new language for the heady, raw experience of being alive, these poems focus their gaze on the existential dilemma of how one finds meaning in a fallen world.

In this High Plains Book Award winning collection of poems, a combination of nature, spirituality, myth, and ritual are combined with a no-holds-barred honesty.

This collection pulses with surprising turns and playful language. The complex weave of individual, highly readable pieces presents an invitation to the reader to absorb the book as greater than the sum of its parts.

These contemplative essays, written for seekers and wanderers, explore the complexity of the scripture of place, the geography of the heart, the landscape of imagination, and the topography of memory.

Recounting one woman's journey to self-discovery with dazzling honesty and humor, this memoir follows her year-long trek through Thailand, China, Nepal, Spain, and Ireland.

The author went on a five-year exploration to uncover the mystery of Colorado's hollow sidewalks that culminated into this entertaining and educational treasure. When you see a manhole cover with little glass discs imbedded in it, many of which have turned purple with age, you'll know you found a treasure.

Nankoweap Trail instructions and maps; U.S. Forest Service and Grand Canyon National Park road-to-trailhead access, travel, and rim equipment; equipment checklist of all-season gear and provisions.

Pushcart Prize winner Robert Garner McBrearty's stories are inhabited by a range of characters and settings, but what they have in common is an inherent curiosity about the world and how each character can find his own place in it.

Filled with interesting "Bet ya didn't know" nuggets of trivia, Grand Canyon Trivia Trek is the perfect companion for enriching your experience of the park.

Inspired by the films of his youth, Anthony treks across Colorado in search of the bones left behind by the dinosaurs that once lived here.

Baby Doe Tabor's love affair with Horace Tabor caused a sensational triangle and national scandal in the 1880s.

The first full-length biography of this American icon, tells the story of a passionate and outspoken crusader for the rights of women, children, mine workers, and others struggling for their voice in the early twentieth century. In the end, the real "Molly" Brown was far more fascinating than her myth.

When the author began his career as a volunteer mountain rescuer with the Alpine Rescue Team in Colorado seventeen years ago, he was a clueless Youngstowner fresh off the interstate from Ohio who didn't know Gore-Tex from Tex-Mex. He had a lifetime of ridiculously dangerous pursuits and backcountry sins to atone for, so he became a Rocky Mountain rescuer with the intention of repaying the massive karmic debt he had accumulated. This is the story of how a career in volunteer service to others transformed a self-absorbed Rustbelt redneck adrenaline junkie into one of the nation's leading voices in technical rope rescue.

A suspenseful rescue from the mountains, as well as numerous other adventures in the mountains. including the author's successful quest to complete all 54 Colorado 14ers; climbs of Mt. Rainier, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Grand Teton, Denali, and Ecuador's Antisana and Cotopaxi.

Deadbeat Dams informs and educates people about how their tax dollars are being used and misused, why we are ignoring some immediate problems, and what can be done to correct this state of affairs. The faults of the present system of federally assisted water management efforts are amply detailed. And a series of specific changes are suggested to re-direct water policy decision-making and implementation. These reforms show how we can extract the federal government from worthless activities that cost millions of taxpayer dollars and provide little or no benefit--an agenda for reform that can be used as ammunition by a new generation of water reformers.¿Deadbeat Dams is a courageous book and a much needed caveat published just when the dam builders are starting their latent cataclysmic assault on the rivers of the American West. As a former Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation appointed by President Clinton, Dan Beard's voice and leadership are needed more than ever to protect and restore rivers, and to end the dam builder schemes to engineer America's living rivers into concrete plumbing systems. Dams kill rivers--Deadbeat Dams restores rivers and our hope for a sustainable future.¿ --Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance¿Dan Beard, who spent much of his long career in key positions in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government working on western water policy, has an axe to grind. He thinks our policy is deeply misguided, and he offers some specific ideas about how to fix it. You may not agree with everything he says, but you will almost certainly come away with a deeper understanding of why water policy needs more attention, just in time for us to confront the serious challenges that climate change is posing for how we manage water. Think of it as a compact supplement to and update of Marc Reisner's epic Cadillac Desert, one that focuses laser-like on the real politics of western water. Written in an accessible style, without jargon, it's fun to read, at least when your blood is not boiling.¿--John Leshy, Harry D. Sunderland Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law, San FranciscöHighly recommend Deadbeat Dams. As former Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Dan Beard is an authoritative voice who has penned a seminal book in America's river restoration movement that all environmentalists should read. After reading Deadbeat Dams, join me in grabbing a sledge hammer, going down to your neighborhood river, and turning this book's message into action.¿--Gary Wockner, Executive Director, Save The Poudre and Save The ColoradöA rare and captivating inside view of a giant federal water project agency by its former commissioner. Beard's convincing case should attract the support of many conservatives and liberals who want to get rid of government waste. Beard punctures the bubble of California water barons as he shows how they perpetually "farm" governments for subsidies. With growing concern about water supplies, Beard shows ways to scrap wasteful practices of the past and move to new approaches. This book has the potential to change the global approach to water: Beard shows the cost-effectiveness and environmental benefits of new approaches to water problems, especially the astonishing results achieved in the Western United States when these better approaches have been implemented.¿ --Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth