Embark on a visual journey through South Park, Colorado, a National Heritage Area. Enjoy reading about its history and seeing images from the mid-1800s through the present in this special area located in the heart of Colorado and within the Rocky Mountain range. More than 400 images of the high mountain passes, historic mines, early communities, and the arrival of the railroad create a sense of life and heritage in South Park, a place that residents and visitors alike relish for its uniqueness, history and natural beauty.

Colorado's South Park High Country Paradise hardcover coffee table book features 120 pages with 270 color pictures, captions, facts and map of South Park in Park County, CO, 85 miles southwest of Denver. The deluxe heirloom 2010 edition includes mining history, gold medal fishing, 14teneers, mountain hiking, mountain passes, four-wheel drives, wildlife viewing, wildflowers, bristlecone pines, lakes, heritage, world championship pack burro race, culture and history of South Park. Included are local community events in Fairplay, Alma, Como, Jefferson, Hartsel and Guffey. In addition, the book is a great Colorado vacation and tourism guide for South Park CO, with images of South Park City and breathtaking color photographs of the High Country by local resident author/ photographer Bernie Nagy of High Country Artworks in Fairplay, CO.

Colorado's South Park, High Country Paradise hardcover coffee table book features 120 pages with 270 color pictures, captions, facts and map of South Park in Park County, CO, 85 miles southwest of Denver. The deluxe heirloom 2010 edition includes mining history, gold medal fishing, 14teneers, mountain hiking, mountain passes, four-wheel drives, wildlife viewing, wildflowers, bristlecone pines, lakes, heritage, world championship pack burro race, culture and history of South Park. Included are local community events in Fairplay, Alma, Como, Jefferson, Hartsel and Guffey. In addition, the book is a great Colorado vacation and tourism guide for South Park CO, with images of South Park City and breathtaking color photographs of the High Country by local resident author/ photographer Bernie Nagy of High Country Artworks in Fairplay, CO.

Christie Wright takes readers on a journey through historic Park County during Colorado's outlaw era. The well-researched stories make a perfect companion for exploring the South Park area.

First published in 1966, Bayou Salado is an engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Now known as South Park, Bayou Salado once attracted Ute and Arapaho hunters as well as European and American explorers and trappers. Virginia McConnell Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents - such as Father Dyer, the skiing Methodist minister-mailman, and Silver Heels, the dancer who lost her legendary beauty while tending to the ill during a small pox epidemic - bring the valley's storied past to life.

In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.

Embark on a visual journey through Colorado’s High Country and enjoy historic photographs from the mid 1800s through the present of Park County located in the South Central Rocky Mountains of Colorado. More than 400 photographs from the high mountain passes, historic mines, early established communities to the arrival of the railroad create a sense of life as it was and as it continues today. Discover gold and silver mining in the Mosquito Range and read about Como’s coal mining era. Journey from the many ranches established by immigrant settlers in the Platte Canyon to the fertile grassland of South Park and learn about the early mountain resorts throughout Park County. This photographic historic essay will be a reference for generation to come to learn about the early explorers, trappers, gold seekers and all who came to settle in a part of the real west to establish a new life and new beginnings. See why so many residents and visitors to Park County relish its uniqueness, history and natural beauty.