This title was the "only authorized guide book of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce." Published from about the mid 1920s through the mid 1930s, it was a weekly publication during the summer season. The big happening of the week of June 18, 1927, was the Trans-Mississippi Golf Tournament at the Broadmoor, which was expected to draw 200 entrants. Municipal band concerts, community sings, and dinner dances were scheduled later in the week. For anglers the guide also reported that "willow flies" had appeared on the streams in the mountains. Filled with advertising, illustrations, maps, "points of interest most visitors want to see," and essential details, including a list of tuberculosis sanatoriums.

F784.C7 H68  v.3 no.5 

Officially endorsed by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.  “The Daily Doings aims to help you find the things that most interest you.  You may use it as a guide to places of scenic interest, entertainments and amusements, and the many first class places of business which offer through their advertisements herein to supply your most critical wants.”  The studio of Charles F. Snow offered “How to take pictures in Colorado” - a free booklet for kodakers.

F784.B66 D25  v.6 no.4

“Opportunity’s Playground” and “The Key State of the New West.”  Published by the Colorado Association, a non-profit organization of institutions and individuals interested in the sound development of the state.  With an office at 514 16th Street, it acted as a clearinghouse for Colorado information.  The topics include: What life is like in Colorado; When you come to Colorado; The vacationland supreme; Vast resources and opportunities; and What you should do about Colorado.  No advertising in this guide but it contained a rip-out-and-send-off information blank. The text of these two editions was essentially the same, but the photographs were different, and the 1932 edition featured color.

F776.5 .C67 1930

F776.5 .C67 1932

In her introductory remarks the author says "This publication is a distinct departure. It gives few statistics, as guide books go. Aiming at permanence, it recommends no lodging or hotels, differing in that from the European "Baedeker" guides. That need is met here by local booklets and information bureaus, in part by the "Colorado Hotel Greeters Guide" and by filling station attendants." It is arranged geographically as a series of driving tours (156 total). The synopsis of Tour 91 - to Auraria - original civic center (West Denver) reads "First woman, newspaper, flood, shop, school, gold rush days, Horace Greeley, Jefferson Territory organized by gold-seekers." Tour 128 - Craig across the Utah border - US 40 - (99 miles) lists side trips to Juniper Hot Springs, and pack trips to Yampa and Lodore Canyons. Among the recommended sights are visits to oil and gas drilling wells!

F781 .B75 1938

This is Colorado’s volume in the American Guide Series, compiled by workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration.  The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions, and a portfolio of photographs.  One historian described it as “an ambitious effort to broaden Colorado’s self-portrait by including neglected common people, minorities, folkways, and obscure places.” There are no lodging or dining recommendations, and no advertising.  This edition went through seven printings, and was reprinted in 1987 as The WPA Guide to 1930s Colorado (with a new introduction by Tom Noel).  A revised edition was issued in 1970.

F781.2 .C64 1941

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