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Books to Guide You To Your 
Mountain Playground


Have More Fun on Your Colorado Vacation!

New! Published 2006, Beautiful Gift Edition of SUMMIT A Gold Rush History of Summit County, Colorado (Click here)
New!
Published 2006, a new revised edition of The New Summit Hiker. Available now!
(Click here.)
New routes, new trailheads, new maps.
   

Area Bookstores report: "The New Summit Hiker  and The Vail Hiker are our best-selling titles."

Gold Rush History
Ghost Towns
Narrow Gauge Railroads
Discover Historic Summit County
and the Splendid Vail Valley!
Find wilderness trails
for 2007 here!

Explore Gold Rush Country with Our
 Historical Books:

New Book

Just Published!

Rascals, Scoundrels
and No Goods

of  Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon Keystone and Silverthorne

If you want to laugh, order this story of the antics of shady ladies, shysters, womanizers and cheats. 

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 SUMMIT

Brand New for 2006! 

Order Information

     Call 1-970 468-6273

Find Alpine Beauty With Our
Trail   Guides

            Summit Hiker Cover

New! Summer 2006 Revised Edition

           Vail Hiker Cover

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Spiritual Books

           

 Alpenrose Press, has since 1979 published regional books on Colorado high country history and hiking/ski trails. The beautiful alpine scenery of Summit County Breckenridge, 
Frisco, 
Dillon,
 Silverthorne, 
Keystone and 
Copper Mountain
and Eagle County  
Vail,
Beaver Creek,
Avon and
Edwards
provides the backdrop for gold rush stories, ghost town guides and trail directions for 100 back country routes for summer hiking, plus winter cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Historian and hiker Mary Ellen Gilliland, a popular Colorado author, gives readers a gateway to the Colorado peak experience.

    Colorado's gold and silver rush, 1859-1910, flourished here, beneath the skyscraping peaks of the Continental Divide. The mineral rush history is dynamic and colorful, enlivened by a parade of saints and sinners who marched across the early-day scene.  SUMMIT, A Gold Rush History of Summit County, Colorado, 25th Anniversary Edition (2006), will take you to alpine mine camps, along highline stagecoach and narrow gauge railway routes, to verified Ute Indian sites and into the bustling milieu of the Rocky Mountain frontier.

    Discover wilderness trails to waterfalls, alpine lakes, wildflower meadows and panoramic view spots in our popular guidebooks, The New Summit Hiker,  and The Vail Hiker. The New Summit Hiker is just out in an updated and revised Summer, 2006 edition The Vail Hiker, updated and expanded, offers ten new destinations to boost the book's total from 40 to 50 trails. 

 Alpenrose Press recently debuted a new imprint, ZoeBooks. The first in this line of spiritual books, Heaven On Earth, Here And Now, explores the essence of God as Life, expressed in the natural world of His creation.

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