COLORADO LESS TRAVELED: JOURNEYS OFF THE BEATEN PATH
FINALIST, 2006 COLORADO BOOK AWARDS

Text by Susan J. Tweit
Photography by Jim Steinberg

$44.95 oversized, clothbound
Available from Portfolio Publications or your local bookstore.

The name Colorado brings to mind images of the Rocky Mountains, but the state has many other faces, from forbidding deserts to oceans of prairie to wide-open parks.

Colorado Less Traveled journeys through these lesser known and less-crowded - but no less awesome and beautiful - parts of the state. Photographer Jim Steinberg's tendency to take the roads less traveled inspired this book, a celebration of Colorado's less-well-known landscapes. Susan J. Tweit's essays give voice to Jim's stunning photographs. The two artists evoke a world we want to know.

Naturalist and essayist Tweit and photographer Steinberg guide us through Colorado"s more diverse and colorful landscapes - forbidding deserts, panoramic mountain views and miles of prairie. . . . Beckons travelers to enjoy Colorado's "other" landscapes. -- Colorado Book Awards

This striking book belongs in any library, public or private, that aspires to be complete on the subject of Colorado.
-- The Bloomsbury Review

 

From the book:

PART I: THE PLAINS

The wide expanse of eastern Colorado's short-grass prairie seems empty at first. Trees are scarce, hiding in the draws and folds where water runs; animals and birds take shelter underground or disappear in the patchwork of grasses and shrubs stunted by the constant wind. No wonder explorer Stephen Long in 1820 dubbed this region "The Great American Desert."

A closer look, however, reveals noisy flocks of migrating shorebirds, geese, and cranes; sprawling colonies of prairie dogs, burrowing owls, and harvester ants; fleet herds of pronghorn antelope; and buffalo grass growing three inches tall from roots three feet deep. Humans have called the plains home for at least 13,000 years, since early hunters chased herds of bison so large that they shook the earth.

Blizzards bury the prairie in spring. Soon after, color creeps across the landscape. . . .

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