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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.

A blend of fact, fiction, politics, and intimacy this poetry book chronicles a forgotten episode in American history and prefigure today's immigration debates. Between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants to America were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. As they waited for weeks and months to know if they could land, some of the detainees wrote poems on the walls. All the poems on record were found in the men's barracks; the women's quarters were destroyed by a fire. The collection imagines the lost voices of the detained women, while also telling the stories of their families on shore, the staff at Angel Island, and the 1877 San Francisco Chinatown Riot.

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.

A modern-day, real life adventure, this book will take readers along for a rollicking ride through South America on a race to the bottom of the Earth.

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.

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.

With over 200 recipes and proven tips developed by the high altitude baking experts at Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, High Altitude Baking is a must for cooks living between 3,500 and 10,000 feet.

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.