Books published by publisher Filter Press

This is Frank Hamilton Cushing's first person account of his life in Zuni. It was first printed in The Century Magazine 1882-1883. After a brief period at Cornell University, Frank Cushing was appointed curator of the ethnological department of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. by the director of the Smithsonian Institution. There he came to the attention of John Wesley Powell, of the Bureau of American Ethnology and was invited by Powell to join an anthropological expedition to New Mexico. The group traveled by rail to end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, then on to Zuni Pueblo where Cushing, ""went native"", living with the Zuni from 1879 to 1884. The book also includes two articles about Cushing written by Sylvester Baxter in 1882.

Mary Elitch Long (1856-1936), was a successful business women and founder of Denver's famed Elitch Gardens. At the time, she was the only woman in the world running an amusement park, and was a role model in a time when women had fewer options. Mary and husband John Elitch Jr. purchased an apple orchard five miles north of Denver intending to grow fresh fruits and vegetables for their restaurant business. With Mary's love for children, flowers, animals, and the theater an ambitious dream was born. The apple orchard was transformed into Elitch's Zoological Gardens (Denver's first zoo), a wonderland of exotic animals, orchards, and gardens. Debra Faulkner brings the Mary Elitch Long story to the Now You Know Bio series from Filter Press.

World War II brought to young women an unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft for their country and make an important contribution to the outcome of the war. In the summer of 1939, Congress approved the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPT). The government offered to pay for flight instruction for students on selected college campuses. One student out of every ten could be a female. Many of the young women who later flew for the United States during WWII came from the more than 2,000 who learned to fly through CPT. One such young woman was Barbara Jane Erickson of Seattle, Washington.

Nine-year-old Raephy McDowell is NOT a snoop. At least, she doesn't think so. She's mighty curious, though. Who wouldn't be with talk of a brand new town where there's nothing for miles except for the Santa Fe Railroad Station? Mary Peace Finley weaves a light-hearted tale of curiousity, ingenuity, and adventure as a train station along with its inhabitants is moved in the middle of the night to become the center of a new town. The book is based on a true story of the founding of Lamar, Colorado. Mary Peace Finley is author of the award-winning Santa Fe Trail Trilogy—Soaring Eagle, White Grizzly, and Meadow Lark. Judith Hunt is the illustrator of many children's books including Prunes and Rupe

A biography of Justina Ford, the first African American woman to practice medicine in Colorado. Dr. Ford cared for women of all races in Denver, Colorado, for over 50 years. Justina Ford--Medical Pioneer was honored by Colorado Independent Publishers Association as one of the top three books for older children for 2004. A new title in the Now You Bio series from Filter Press.

On November 29, 1864, a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped along Sand Creek in the southeastern Colorado Territory was attacked by Colorado Territory militia under the command of Colonel John Chivington. An estimated 150 to 200 Native Americans were killed, nearly all of them elderly men, women, and children. Nancy Oswald, author of the acclaimed young adult novel Nothing Here But Stones, uses the horrific events at Sand Creek as a shattering climax for the story of Hides Inside, a young Cheyenne unable to speak and struggling to gain acceptance as he grows to manhood and seeks to become a warrior. "Hard Face Moon is a heartrending story of broken promises, close to the earth and sky and to the heart of the Cheyenne people. It is an important look at one of the most shameful events in the history of the American West." Mary Peace Finley Author of the Santa Fe Trail Trilogy: Soaring Eagle, White Grizzly, and Meadow Lark "Hard Face Moon is an exciting and enlightening read for ages 10 and up. Through the eyes of a 13- year-old Cheyenne boy and his friends, Nancy Oswald tells the sorrowful story of the Sand Creek Massacre." Patrick Mendoza, Storyteller/Singer Author of Song of Sorrow: the Massacre at Sand Creek

This traditional Hopi tale recounts the courage and cleverness of a tiny field mouse striving to protect the village from a mighty hawk who is stealing the chickens. It was originally published in 1944 by the Bureau of Indian Afffairs. The drawings are by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie who was born at the turn of the twentieth century on the Second Mesa. Kabotie was commissioned by the Museum of the American Indian in New York to record authentic native dances and by the Fred Harvey Company to decorate the Indian Tower on the south Rim of the Grand Canyon. The book is in English and phonetic Hopi with a pronunciation guide.