Colorado's landmark hotels book.

• Author: Wommack, Linda
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

Gil Campbell, the original Air Force Academy librarian, started Filter Press in 1957 and offered reprints of historic Western texts. (A collection of John Wesley Powell's writings for Scribner's Magazine was a top seller.) Tom and Doris Baker bought the publisher in 1996 and today Doris, a retired editor and librarian, and Tom, a retired software engineer, release about a half-dozen titles a year, including two series of biographies of notable Coloradans.

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"There are so many great stories from Colorado," says Doris. "It goes on and on and it's endlessly fascinating. The people who came here were adventurers and visionaries--or they...