VISTABOOKS PUBLISHING since 1972

About VistaBooks--What we do/Who we are

VistaBooks publishes on the outdoors and American history. A focus is to present participant-observer accounts of historic events that occurred at particular sites, often now national and state parks and historic monuments. Readers can thus relive first-hand experiences rather than read historians' reconstructions.

Learn what happened, for instance, at Custer's last battle from an officer on the scene who dodged arrows that day on another part of the field. Experience the snowbound tragedy of the Donner party. Read Mark Twain's humorous account of mining-boom days at Virginia City, Nevada Territory. Get tours of Montauk Point on Long Island, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and Yosemite by travel writers of early days including John Muir and Clarence King. Have Bat Masterson tell you about famous western gunfighters. Understand from the Wright Brothers themselves how they came to invent their flying machine. Have Teddy Roosevelt tell how to ranch in the far west, before he became America's president. And there is a national park cookbook, early ranger history, and Indian rock art, some 70 in all. Each book is well illustrated, some by Thomas Moran or Frederic Remington.

Before, most of these titles have been mainly available only at the historic sites themselves. Now you can have them sent to you. Order by sending us an e-mail message. Or, print the order form and fax or mail it to us.

We have also done a trail guide on Yosemite National Park and a climbing guide to the Donner/Lake Tahoe area, both now out of print.

We are about the smallest company you'll ever find doing what we do. VistaBooks has been operating in Colorado continuously since 1979 (at Lakewood and Grand Junction) and in the Rocky Mountains of Summit County at Silverthorne since 1990 . We have also operated in California and Nevada, and an earlier name used was Outbooks; some of our imprints still carry that name. We have also been known as National Park Publications. There have been stints working as a ranger or naturalist in national parks and as a planner in park master planning and even as a ski instructor. There has also been some free-lance magazine article writing in the past, and work as a royalty author with other publishers. This background leads us toward our projects. Thanks for looking at our catalogs and using our home page. We hope to hear from you.

VISTABOOKS
0637 Blue Ridge Road, Silverthorne, CO 80498-8931
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