Using Primary Source Documents in Local Research
The Grand Ditch: Taking Water to the People, 1890-1940
Grand and Larimer Counties, Colorado
Pathfinder/Research Aid
Primary photograph sources
Remote Sensing Research on Landslides
Primary text sources
Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
Primary map sources
Rocky Mountain National Park (downloadable map)
Other web sources
National Register of Historic Places
- click on Search by region>central region>Select Denver Public Library
- use Grand Ditch as search term
Other sources
- Grand County Historical Association
- Rocky Mountain National Park Archives and Library
- Print Resources
- Primary Resources
Atkins, Ferrel. The Grand Ditch: An Interview with Edward Baker. 1966. Manuscript on file at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO.
Atkins, Ferrel. The Grand Ditch: Rocky Mountain National Park. 1966. Manuscript on file at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO.
Atkins, Ferrel. The Grand Ditch/ Water Supply and Storage Co. 1966. Manuscript on file at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO.
Atkins, Ferrel. The Grand Ditch (Nomination for National Register). 1975. Manuscript on file at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO.
Batterson, James Goodwin. T.C. Henry; his advent in Colorado; organized a loan and trust co. on his own note for $30,000. How to make $100,000 in twelve months, and fail in fifteen. Grand River Ditch completed ... Confirmation...It was not completed. Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1891. (Available from Denver Public Library)
Batterson, James Goodwin. Reply to a letter written by J.P. Brockway and Willard Teller in the interest of T.C. Henry. Hartford: Conn., 1891. (Available from Denver Public Library, Western History. Does not circulate.)
Butler, William. Colorado State Form for 5GA2249 Grand Ditch. 1997. Form on file at the Colorado State Archaeology Office, Denver CO, and at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO.
Butler, William. Colorado State Form for 5GA301.7 Grand Ditch. 1998. Form on file at the Colorado State Archaeology Office, Denver, CO and at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
Cairns, Mary Lyons. Grand Lake in the olden days; a compilation of Grand Lake: the pioneers, and The olden days. Denver, Colo.: World Press, 1971.
Cornell, Virginia Miller. Ski Lodge Millers Idlewild Inn: Adventures in Snow Business. Carpintera, CA: Manifest Publications, 1993.
Cozens, Mary. Fraser Haps and Mishaps: The Diary of Mary E. Cozens. Denver, CO: Regis College Press, 1990.
Gray, Avis. In their own spirit : voices of courage from a Rocky Mountain village, oral history, as they remember it. Patience Cairns Kemp, Bert McLaren, Dorothy Elkins Young, Monsignor Thomas Barry, Johnnie Holzwarth. Grand Lake, CO : Avis Gray and Ann Feucht, 2002.
Pauly, Nell Donathan. The death of the mines. Grand Lake, CO: N. Pauly, 1959.
Pauly, Nell. Day Before Yesterday. Grand Lake, CO, 1972.
Pauly, Nell (Donathan). Ghosts of the shootin'. Grand Lake, CO, 1961.
Secondary Resources
Buchholtz, C. W. Rocky Mountain National Park : a history. Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1983.
Hansen, James E. The Water Supply and Storage Company: A Century of Reclamation 1891-1991. 1991. Pamphlet on file at the Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO.
Hickey, Jeffery. An Uneasy Coexistence: Rocky Mountain National Park and the Grand River Ditch. 1988. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Jenkins, John W., and C. & K. McWilliams. Historical American Engineering Record for the Grand Ditch. 1988. Form on file at Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Denver, CO.
Plimpton, Kathryn D. Northern Colorado’s Grand Ditch: an archeo-historic study. 2000. Unpublished Bachelors Project, Department of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO.
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Kathy Ziegler, East Grand School District
