| Regional History |
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| Conquistadors to the 21st Century: A History of Otero and Crowley Counties, Colorado. Frances Bollacker Keck. 1999: Otero Press, La Junta CO. |
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| History of Bent County. History of the Arkansas Valley. Charles W. Bowman. 1881: O.L. Baskin, Chicago. |
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| Land of Contrast: A History of Southeast Colorado. Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Cultural Resources Series #17. Frederic J. Athearn. 1985: Colorado State Office, Bureau of Landmangement, Denver. |
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| Prowers County, Colorado, A Prowers County History. Ava Betz. 1986: Prowers County Historical Society, Lamar CO. |
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| The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. Elliott West. 1998: University Press of Kansas, Lawrence KS. |
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| Dust Bowl in Southeast Colorado |
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| Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Donald Worster. 1979: Oxford University Press, New York. |
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| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Timothy Egan. 2006: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York. |
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| Individuals |
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| Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West. Hampton Sides. 2006: Doubleday, New York. |
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| Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent - Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man. David Halaas. 2004: Da Capo Press, Cambridge MA. |
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| Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters. George E. Hyde. 1968: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. |
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| William Bent and his Adobe Empire. Shannon Garst. 1957: Messner, New York. |
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| Bent’s Old Fort |
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| Bent's Fort. David Lavender. 1972: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. |
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| Bent's Fort: Crossroads of Cultures on the Santa Fe Trail. Melvin Bacon. 2002: Filter Press LLC, Palmer Lake CO. |
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| Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. Mark L. Gardner. 1998: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tuscon. |
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| Sand Creek Massacre |
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| Battle at Sand Creek: The Military Perspective. Gregory F. Michno. 2004: Upton & Sons, El Segundo CA. |
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| Black Kettle : The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but Found War. Thom Hatch. 2004: John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ. |
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| Blood at Sand Creek: The Massacre Revisited. Robert Scott. 1994: Caxton Press, Caldwell ID. |
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| Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, And the 1864 Massacre Site. Jerome A. Greene. 2004: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. |
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| Month of the Freezing Moon: The Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864. Duane P. Schultz. 1991: St. Martin's Press, New York. |
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| Sand Creek. Kevin Cahill. 2005: AuthorHouse. |
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| Sand Creek Massacre. Stan Hoig. 1961: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. |
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| The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices (The American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 16). Bruce Cutler. 1995: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. |
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| The Sand Creek Massacre: a documentary history, 1865-1867. John M. Carroll. 1985: Amereon Ltd, Mattituck NY. |
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| Santa Fe Trail |
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| Comanche National Grassland: Santa Fe Trail National Historic Trail Routes. USFS. 2006: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service. |
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| Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. Susan Shelby Magoffin. Editor Stella M. Drumm. 1962: Yale University Press, New Haven. |
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| On the Santa Fe Trail. Marc Simmons. 1986: University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. |
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| Quivera, Europeans in the Region of the Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820. William Brandon. 1990: Ohio University Press, Athens. |
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| The Santa Fe Trail. R. L. Duffus. 1972: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. |
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| The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore. David Dary. 2000: Penguin Books, New York. |
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| The Santa Fe Trail, Yesterday and Today. William E. Hill. 1992: Caxton Press, Caldwell ID. |
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| Native American History |
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| Colorado Plains Prehistoric Context. Jeffrey L. Eighmy. 1984: Colorado Historical Society, Denver. |
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| Indians of the High Plains. George E. Hyde. 1959: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. |
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| Prehistoric Hunters in the High Plains. George C. Frison. 1978: Academic Press, New York. |
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| The Petroglyphs of Southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Bill McGlone. 1994: Mithras, Incorporated. |
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| Camp Amache and World War II |
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| A legacy of shame: The story of Colorado's Camp Amache. George Lurie. 1985: G. Lurie. |
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| Amache: The Granada Relocation Center. Tyler Nakashima. 1994: Tyler Nakashima. |
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| Hometown Heroes: Stories and Insights from World War II Veterans from Southeast Colorado. Donna McDonnall. 2006: Heritage Books, Westminster MD. |
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