Contents note: Introduction--Colorado Mountain Men of the Fur Trade Days by LeRoy R. Hafen--The way they killed the buffalo by Charles B. Roth--Decline and Fall of the Stagecoach Empire by Forbes Parkhill--The First Forest Ranger by Len Shoemaker--Early Mining Camps of South Park by Norma L. Flynn--West by Water by Dabney Otis Collins--Governor Charles Bent: Pioneer and Martyr by Harold H. Dunham--Trade Beads Among the American Indians by Philip W. Whiteley--Debut of the Windsor by Caroline Bancroft--The Great Adventure by Fred Mazzulla--The Tragedy of Fort Philip Kearny by Charles D. Schreibeis--The Killing of Pat McWeeney by M. I. McCreight--A Century of Hidden History by Roscoe Fleming--The fall of Fort Filmore, 1861 by Herbert O. Brayer--Out Jesse-ing the James Boys by Velma Linford--Domestic Implements of New Mexico vy E. Boyd--By Train in 1875 by Agnes Wright Spring--Charles Marion Russell: A Tribute by Nolie Mumey--Heraldry of the Range by Agnes Wright Spring--Index