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Ghost Town
In NorthernColorado
LongsPeak 
PioneerClimbers
Outlaws
In EarlyColorado
Skiing
SteamboatSprings
 
FrontierLife
In NorthColorado
EstesPark 
Early RangerIn Rocky Mt.National Park
CattleDrives
WyomingIn the 1800s
CoverPicture:Indian Ruinsin SouthwestColorado
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wo of my favorite books are“John Fielder’s Best of Colorado” and his “Colorado: LostPlaces and Forgotten Words.”Though published several yearsago, they are still available anddifferent from most of Fielder’sbooks because they contain notonly great photographs but alsocomments from early writers whovisited Colorado and more recentcomments from people who wantto protect the state’s naturalbeauty.Fielder quoted PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on observinga mountain valley in springtime:“The green of the valley was adelight to the eye. Bird songssounded on every side, from thefields and from the trees andbushes beside the brooks...the airwas sweet with the springtimebreath of many budding things.”He also quoted poet WaltWhitman, who visited Coloradoand observed “...the chasm, thegorge, the crystal mountainstream...the fantastic forms bathedin transparent browns, faint redsand grays, towering sometimes athousand feet high...mixing withthe clouds with only their outlines,hazed in misty lilac.”Writer Hal Borland described amoment in his childhood onColorado’s eastern plains when heand his father stopped to appre-ciate the beauty around them:“Father drew up the horses for amoment and just sat and looked...Ilooked at him, and I looked againat the distance, and I felt a kind of smile inside myself, and a sense of awe that made me not want to saya word. It was so big, so vast, sonew, so wonderful.”Both of these books cover theentire state, not just the mountains,and reveal the beauty of placesmany visitors never see—deephidden canyons on the westernslope; vast prairie vistas on theeastern plains.In these books, Fielder wantedto do more than just presentpictures. He wanted to help peoplerealize how fragile Colorado’snatural environment is and howimportant it is to protect the “lostplaces” where we can go to findbeauty, peace and solitude.That’s why he said, “In today’sage of catastrophes, ocean oilspills, destruction of the ozonelayer...a look back in time gener-ates questions we should askourselves. Toward what end are wetaking our civilization?”And that’s why he quotespeople like former ColoradoGovernor Dick Lamm, who said,“There must be lost places formankind to keep its sanity. Wemust have ways to get away...forrenewal, for rejuvenation and forworship.”Fielder knows that a picture isnot worth a thousand words. Inthese books, he uses words toenhance his pictures and give themmeaning. He recalled remarksfrom one of America’s greatconservationists, Stewart Udall:“There are today a few wilder-ness reaches on the NorthAmerican continent—in Alaska, inCanada and in places of the RockyMountains—where the earlymorning mantle of primevalAmerica can be seen in its pristineglory...where one can gaze withwonder on the land as it was whenthe Indians first came.”These books combine powerfulphotographic images withinspiring words and leave us with agreater appreciation of the placewhere we live.________________
COVER PICTURE: Fielder’s photo of the Lowry Pueblo insouthwestern Colorado near thetown of Cortez, from the book “John Fielder’s Best of Colorado.”
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Lost Places, Forgotten Words
Fielder’s photo of Rifle Falls nearthe western Colorado town of Rifle, from the book “John Fielder’s Best of Colorado.”
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