Home - ESSL 290 - Life and Literature of Southwest Colorado - Claridge & Malloy

Special Collections at Tomlinson Library - Mountain Scholar Digital Collections
Includes digitized materials on the history of Western Colorado, including water resources and the Department of Energy Atomic Energy Commission

Colorado Historical Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
Subject: History Open Access Resource Historic Colorado newspaper database with full-text articles, graphics, letters to the editor, and advertising. Covers 44 newspapers from 1859-1923.
19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Subjects: US History, Political Science
19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

To find primary sources at CMU (or Prospector or Worldcat libraries) you can add the word sources to your search.

For example: ute and sources

You can also add "type" words to your search, for primary sources of different types.

For example: ranch life and personal narratives.

Words that describe primary source types include:

Nelson (William H.) Colorado Water Collection
Hundreds of documents related to the management of water in the West, particularly in the Colorado River watershed, available online or in Special Collections and Archives at Tomlinson Library.
Atomic Energy Commission Collection
Hundreds of reports created on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission are available here online or in Special Collections and Archives at Tomlinson Library.
Govinfo - U. S. Government Publishing Office
Includes (online) reports from regional government agencies concerning Western Colorado issues and places.

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Physical & Environmental Sciences Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Health Sciences Index to peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings for life science and biomedical research from 1969-current; links to some full-text.
Greenfile This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Agriculture, Biological Sciences Covers the various aspects of human impact on the environment such as: global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Some full-text peer-reviewed articles from 1950-current.
GEORef This link opens in a new window
Subject: Geology American Geological Institute's geosciences database containing some linked full-text of journal articles, books, maps, theses and dissertations; 1785-current.

To find government reports, include the agency name in your search, for example forest service and uncompahgre.

To find environmental impact statements, include that phrase with a location keyword, for example environmental impact statement and uinta.