Library Catalog  Search the catalog for records of books, manuscript collections, maps, and serial titles. 

Books -Search by subject: agriculture, ranch, ranching, cattle, livestock, farm
For more specific subject searches:
cattle brands- for Colorado Brand Books
ranch life- for diaries and accounts of ranchers' lives
crops (search by name of crop), irrigation, land settlement, soil, insects, agricultural pests, cowboy poetry

Bibliographies
 - Cattle Industry
 - Cattle Trails & Roundups
 - National Western Stock Show
 - Ranching in Colorado
 - Rocky Mountain Locust
 - Sugar Beets

Directories
City/County Directories. County directories often list taxpayers living in rural areas.
Colorado State Business Directories (1875 – 1956)
Colorado Agricultural Directory, Ft. Collins. q630.025 C714c
Stockmen's Official Colorado Green Book. Denver, 1919. 348.788 St62 1919

Manuscript collections
Records of manuscript collections are included in the online catalog. Finding aids, usually inventories, are available for many manuscript collections.  Manuscripts Collections - agriculture and ranching.

Maps
Records of maps are included in the online catalog.
America's Cattle Trails [1540 - 1900]. Herbert O. Brayer and Garnet M. Brayer.
G 3701 .J 1540 - 1900 .G5
Principal "Long Horn Trails" North from Texas Hugh T. Glenn.
G4051 .J 1863 .G5
Principal Spanish and Mexican Cattle Trails 1540 - 1846 [southwest U.S. and Mexico]
Hugh T. Glen. G4051 .J5 1540-1848 .G5

Newspapers
Many Colorado newspapers had regular columns on agriculture and ranching news.
Newspaper indexes, listing newspaper titles and dates held, are available in the library.

Photographs
Photography Subject Collection: Agriculture, Agriculture - Ranching and Agriculture - Ranches (by ranch name).
Additional collections on agriculture and ranching

Search online photo indexes for additional collections that include images of agriculture and ranching.  A few CHS photos are available for viewing on http://photoswest.org.

Serials
Serial titles are included in the online catalog. Consult a librarian for information on dates available. Serials contain information on agriculture and ranching. List of agricultural and ranching serials.

Subject file: Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock.
Place Name File: Ranches (filed by ranch name).
The cards provide references to articles from newspapers, magazines, and books.

C.W.A. Pioneer Interviews
Interviews with individuals in the ranching and farming industries. Interviews are bound into volumes and organized by county. Card file index available.

Dawson Scrapbooks
Volumes of newspaper clippings on Cowboys and Cattle, Agriculture, Irrigation. A subject card file index is available.

Ephemera
Subject Collection - Agriculture - Six cartons of pamphlets, programs, clippings and other ephemeral materials.
Vertical File - Biographical - information on individuals involved in agriculture and ranching. Search the index by individual's name.
Vertical File - Geographical - Eastern Colorado - for booklets on agriculture on the Colorado plains.

W. P. A. Writers' Project
History of Grazing RB q636.2 W939gr
Stockmen Interviews RB q636.2 W939st