In the midst of the Christmas chaos, renew your spirit with this quick but captivating read. Pastor Goodale's book of stories, verses, and thought-provoking historical insights will leave you with a renewed sense of awe for the King who gave up heaven to be our Greatest Gift.

7.375x9.0 inches, Paperback, 88 pages, all text, no pictures/illustrations.

The Garden of the Gods has been a source of fascination for a wide variety of people, ranging from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to modern-day visitors. This story of the Garden of the Gods, enhanced with vintage and contemporary photographs, is the story of those people who encountered this geologic wonder, either through circumstance or through choice. Some left their marks on the rocks as messages for those who came after them. Others left their messages either in print or as works of art. Many more were just passing through on their way to goldfields, to a new way of life, or to settle the land.

Since the Garden of the Gods became a city park in 1909, millions of people from all over the world have come to gaze in wonder at the beautiful and unusual rock formations, often finding a spiritual aspect to their visit. This book contains Garden of the Gods' history, archaeology, geology, and Ute lore.

Why historic railroad stations and sites of Summit County?

Bill Fountain first considered writing a book about the railroad stops of Summit County several years ago. Volume I follows the growth and demise of more than nine railroad stops lining the tracks from Boreas Pass to Rocky Point. Many of the photographs, gathered from a wide variety of sources, have not appeared in previous publications. They tell a story that hasn't been told before.

Using information taken from first-hand accounts, Denver, South Park & Pacific files, government and other archives, and newspaper articles, Fountain tells the story of the railroad's effects on the county's economic life. He explains why the DSP&P earned the nickname Damn Slow Pulling and Pretty Rough Riding. Readers can compare the joyous anticipation shared by the residents when they learned of the railroad's coming and the stark reality that soon replaced it. Photographs portray the unrelenting challenges presented by winters in a high-altitude climate mixed with steep terrain, especially for those living at Boreas Pass year-round. Marvel at the 1880s version of a modern snow-blower-the rugged rotary snowplow that moved tons of snow each winter from the tracks. Find out why the myth of the original site of the third Bakers tank has now been conclusively stopped in its tracks because of detailed research into DSP&P records. Imagine what it must have been like to lay 11 miles of track to cover the 6.5 miles from Boreas Pass to Breckenridge while descending from 11,481 feet to 9,568 feet. Learn where to look for fascinating clues to the geologic history of Rocky Point and enjoy the same views of the Ten Mile Range and the Blue River Valley as those riding the trains in the 1880s.

As in all of his other manuscripts, Fountain imagined what life would have been like in the late 1800s after the arrival of the railroad and the consequences of abandoning the line in 1937. He hopes you, the reader, with the help of text and photographs, will do the same.

Following the Civil War, there was a shortage of men for many jobs that they had traditionally done. Women entered the workforce in new and sometimes unexpected ways. One of the jobs that women were hired to do was to be lighthouse keepers.

This is the story of Amy Pritchard, widowed by the war and adrift in her grief, who takes a chance on a new life by becoming one of those keepers.

A violent storm changes her life in many ways with its unexpected consequences. As she weathers every adversity, she grows stronger and begins to explore a new life, one she never could have imagined.

A children's book and beginning reader is about a young girl named Theodora and her newly acquired pet raccoon, Rackitty, Rackitty & Theodora become fast friends and lead the reader on a fun and rascally adventure in and about the mountain community they live. This beautifully designed book hosts over twenty full-colored illustrated panels and simple text Ideal for ages 2 through 6 and is perfect for the beginning reader. This adventuresome read is fun, exciting, and quite memorable. What makes this particular children's book so unique is the fact that it's a true story.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe reign as the two most important modern architects of the 20th century. Remarkably, their considerable influences were felt in the city of Colorado Springs during the late 1940s - Wright's through the work of his granddaughter, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, and Mies's in the oeuvre of A. Gustaf Jan Ruhtenberg. Elaine Freed, author of a book about Ingraham's signature houses, turns attention here to Jan Ruhtenberg's journey from Riga to Berlin, then Stockholm and New York, and finally to Colorado Springs, where he designed and remodeled dozens of houses and other structures in the Miesian mode. After placing Ruhtenberg's work in the context of European and American modernism, Freed focuses on five unique houses in Colorado Springs, ranging from a modest cottage to a spacious Italian villa. Her insightful view includes Ruhtenberg's own home in the exclusive Broadmoor neighborhood.

Design magazines in Europe and America celebrated Ruhtenberg's designs at midcentury, and the popular press did as well. His work appeared in Progressive Architecture and Architectural Forum - and in Time, Life, and Fortune. Later, Ruhtenberg's legacy faded, but recently his design reputation has gained new respect. Modern at Midcentury: Ruhtenberg Revisited guarantees his proper place in the modernist pantheon.

We all have unfulfilled wants. What are yours? To satisfy these wants, you must do more than just ask. You must ask effectively. In a professional career spanning decades, Sandy F. Kraemer has professionally worked with over 5000 clients who have come to him for help in achieving goals and satisfying personal desires. He discovered that what separates winners--those who succeed--from everyone else is how they ask. In HOW TO ASK, Kraemer offers a simple new paradigm of 5 Win Words anyone can apply to ask effectively. The power of these Win Words is illustrated with true stories featuring people of all ages, from teenagers, searching for direction to adults dealing with life-and-death challenges. HOW TO ASK spotlights strategies for pursuing money, love, opportunities, jobs, health, and justice. This Fourth Edition includes a bonus chapter--More About: Asking for Medical Care. It can not be overstated the importance of knowing HOW TO ASK regarding medical care, literally life-saving. Priceless insights and original graphics throughout the book provide you with context and support. Simple charts allow you to personalize an Ask Effectively Action Plan, gauge your performance and track your growth. You'll be encouraged to make and expand your own list. Fulfill your wants daily by learning to ask effectively. You will be amazed at what you can achieve once you know HOW TO ASK.

On our ranch the rule is, the cattle come first! The cattle are fed before we eat and are bedded down before we go to bed. They are our number one priority. This is something I learned when becoming a cattle rancher. It is not all work though. Have you ever been to a cow patty toss, slept in a barn, pulled a calf from its mother, been excited because your new television lets you watch the cows at night, or been on a pregnant cow chase? Do you truly believe that cows know what you are saying? Then you have lived on a cattle ranch. The life of a cattle rancher is one of learning as you go, especially if you were raised as a city girl. That is exactly what happened when I answered, Why Not? when my husband said upon his retirement, Let's get a ranch.

On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado's history. During Bob's lifetime, over two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of gold was mined from the Cripple Creek Mining District, which Womack was instrumental in establishing.

The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through first-hand accounts from not only Womack's quotes but other legendary figures such as Irving Howbert, Horace Bennett, Leslie Doyle Spell and William, and Ida Womack. Today, over one hundred and twenty-five years after that historic gold discovery, gold is still mined in the mining district of Cripple Creek.

The legacy of Robert Bob' Miller Womack will forever remain as the discoverer of The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth.

This book begins in 1888 with the first efforts to get wheeled vehicles and their passengers to the summit of Pikes Peak. 15 years earlier, the U. S. Army established a weather station at the top of the mountain and manned it all year round with human observers. These two activities have resulted in the mountain being an attraction for visitors, innkeepers, skiers, hunters, and fishermen. Individuals and corporations have been motivated by the challenge of the highway to get their horseless carriages, automobiles, race cars, motorcycles, bicycles, basketballs, wheelbarrows, peanuts, and pianos to the top of the mountain. People have attempted to get rich by selling a piece of the mountain.

The summit has been the site of experiments in meteorology, aircraft engine design, and human physiology. It has been the host of numerous proposals for sheltering those visitors and residents. Over the years five structures have been built for this purpose. There have been several struggles for control including an attempt to homestead the summit. It has been the source of tall tales, stories of hardship, and of failure.

The book includes 13 maps and is illustrated with 123 images, most of them vintage photographs, many which have never been published before.

The Kingsleys in 1870s Colorado reveals the story of how one Englishwoman, Rose G. Kingsley, the eldest daughter of an Anglican clergyman, arrived in the newly-founded town Colorado Springs in November 1871 to organize the first reading room, the first music concert, and the Fountain Society of Natural Science. Rose's brother, Maurice, was already in Colorado, inspired to emigrate there by city founder, William J. Palmer, a Civil War veteran and President of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, and his English business partner, William A. Bell. The cultural influence of Maurice Kingsley and Rose was such that the town was soon referred to as Little London. In the summer of 1874, the Reverend Charles Kingsley sojourned in nearby Manitou Springs for six weeks with Rose on her return visit, at the same time that his brother, Dr. George Kingsley, M.D., was assisting the 4^th Earl of Dunraven to create a ranch in Estes Park, Colorado, an adventure that would become dangerous when a Dunraven employee shot Rocky Mountain Jim. For the first time, the full story is told of the international investment intrigue behind the Kingsleys in Colorado.

The Tompo of the Ringing answers this question-if an eclectic garage and roll band earning three dollars a night split five ways explodes in an empty Tenderloin bar at 3am, does it make a sound?

Tracy Santa offers evidence that someone was listening to that ping in the cosmos. And furthermore documents the journey of a pre-adolescent naturist whose buddies-like Nashville Cats-all play guitar twice as better than he will, out of the tail end of the 60s, through mixed-up confusion in the 70s, rising and crashing in the D.I.Y. free market of the 80s.

Rock bios chronicle the triumph of the chosen few. What of the rest of us? Tracy Santa's story of a life in and around the music of his youth works to fill that gap. Thrill to the origin story of Joe Doy, weird scenes inside the sex mine, and being ignored by the Go-Go's.

Misunderstandings, marching out of step, and not quite getting it right dominate The Tompo of the Ringing. We've read about playing the Hollywood Bowl doped to the gills. Isn't it time we examined the simple pleasures of watching cartoons with Dee Dee Ramone? Or the strand of dental floss connecting Wooly Bully and Caesar's Gallic Wars? And just what-when all is said and done-is The Tompo of the Ringing?

The Tompo of the Ringing is a way of seeing that reveals rock and roll as community, as quest, as inquiry, as hopeful practice, and as path, one that imbues Santa's singular tale with broad appeal and larger relevance. Besides, it's just plain fun. Marc Zegans, Pop Matters.

The Tompo of the Ringing is really funny, paced at Markey Mark Ramone speed, stirringly written, incisive, and a great testament and time capsule to that whole era. Tim Parrish, author of The Jumper.

The literary landscape is littered with rock autobiographies. So many of them follow the same narrative, rags-to-riches-to-rags. Imagine if-get this-a book was well-written and unconventional in its storytelling. In The Tompo of the Ringing, Tracy Santa delivers on this promise. Michael T. Fournier, Razorcake.

Tracy Santa's always treated each rock and roll moment like a precious thing. He's the guy smiling when someone throws a drink on the band and tells them to go home, forever. Warren Zanes, author of Petty: The Biography.

Life in communist-ruled Czechoslovakia is becoming increasingly problematic for the young Prague physician Roman Hollander, and he makes the difficult decision to leave his homeland in a quest for freedom. He finds initial refuge in Germany where he is contacted by a CIA officer who coerces him to join the agency. Roman arrives in America but is soon dispatched back to Czechoslovakia on a clandestine mission. His assignment goes awry, and he has to escape the country with his life. Back in the United States, Roman is troubled by a guilty conscience related to his mission, and later, once Czechoslovakia is free, he resolves to return there to assuage his inner conflicts by revisiting the events of the past. This decision, however, only complicates his circumstances. No Saints Among Us is a story of human fallibility, of troubled conscience, and of unpredictable vicissitudes life's journey can bring.

Alice Elizabeth Nye Sorrell roared as an English Lit teacher in Laredo, Texas, from 1931 through 1980, while performing a dual role as a Journalist for the local Hearst daily newspaper, the Laredo Morning Times. She amazed her Mexican-American pupils, who quickly imparted to her a virtual rock-star social status. Vividly she fronted poetry of Anglo-Saxon literary culture from Chaucer, through Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley--this to astonished classrooms packed with Latino-majority student bodies whose first language was Spanish.
A widowed social lioness, single parent, and early feminist, her reporting served the citizens of her town and state on a weekly basis (and often daily) for almost 75 years, from 1931 up to July 2007.
Progressive she was--and would be today given current political/cultural standards. A descendant of Norse people who became English dissenters, she is exemplary of the Nye clan in America, whose origins trace from 1635, Cape Cod. A genealogical narrative reveals the lady's Viking genes, sent down by grandpa Capt. Thomas C. Nye, the family having pioneered in the Republic of Texas, followed by farming near Laredo at the end of the 19th century.
The teacher/journalist's only son, a retired Texas and Colorado lawyer recounts here his mother's life, lauding her as a Rice University graduate, an early feminist, and a radical humanitarian who 'worked' Laredo, and South Texas, as an influential socialite who expressed undying love of her city and her pupils from a back-bench overview of present culture, stacked on top her Danish, English, and New England ancestry, as a NYE whose world-view was global and not parochial.
This tale is one of public service, overcoming poverty and family tragedies which were capped by quiet victory, and the embellishing of her nine generation descent from Britannia

Toki Tooley has a secret: she can talk to the spirits of the world, including rocks, trees, trash cans, and plungers. When her family moves to the small mountain town of Devil's Ford to care for her ailing grandmother, Toki becomes swept up in an investigation into the death of a local high school senior, Liam Paxton. With the clock ticking, Toki and her lunch detention friends soon realize that uncovering the truth behind Liam's death is the only way to restore peace to Devil's Ford.