James H. Pickering

Professor

Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. Eleventh Edition (Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 2007). 1,447 pp. Companion Web Site: www.prenhall.com/pickering.
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: Then and Now. (Denver, Co.: Westcliffe Publishing Company, 2006). Photographic History. With Mic Clinger and Carey Stevanus. 272 pp.
Enos Mills’ Colorado (Boulder. Co.: Johnson Books, 2006), 238 pp.
America’s Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: The GrowthYears. (Boulder, Co.: the University Press of Colorado, 2005). 457 pp.
Early Estes Park, Volumes I-IV (Estes Park, Co.: Alpenaire Publishing/Estes Park Park Museum, 2004).

Volume 1: Narratives of Discovery, Settlement, and Recreation. 234 pp.
Volume II: Narratives of Discovery, Settlement, and Recreation. 224 pp.
Volume III: Days and Hours of Estes Park (1912-1944): The Journal of Charles Edwin Hewes. 215 pp.
Volume IV: Narratives of Exploration and Mountain Advanture and Bibliography of Historical Literature. 210 pp.

The Ways of the Mountains: Thornton Sampson, Agnes Vaille and Other Tragedies in High Places (Estes Park, Co.: Alpenaire Publishing/Estes Park Area Historical Museum, 2003). 125 pp.
In the Vale of Elkanah: The Tahosa Valley World of Charles Edwin Hewes (Estes Park: Alpenaire Publishing/Estes Park Area Historical Museum, 2003. Second, Revised Edition, 2007). 141 pp.
Mr. Stanley of Estes Park. (Kingfield, Me.: The Stanley Museum, 2000). 360 pp. First full-scale biography of Freelan Oscar Stanley (1849-1940), co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer and pioneer of Colorado tourist industry.
"This Blue Hollow": Estes Park, The Early Years, 1859-1915. 321 pp. (Niwot, Co.: University Press of Colorado, 1999). Winner of 1999 Publication Prize of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities; Finalist, Colorado Book Award, “Colorado and the West,” 2000. Paperback edition, University Press of Colorado, 2005.
The City in American Literature (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1977).
The World Turned Upside Down: The Prose and Poetry of the American Revolution (New York: Kennikat Press, 1975).

“Vanished In the Mountain: The Saga of the Reverend Thornton R. Sampson,” Colorado Heritage, (Summer 2000), 19-35.
"'Alone Amid the Wind's Mad Revelry': The Death of Carrie Welton,” Colorado Heritage, (Summer 1998), 3-13.
"The Ascent of Mount Richthofen," Colorado Heritage, (Summer 1996), 35-42.
"Biking and Climbing with the Denver Ramblers, 1891," Trail & Timberline (Journal of the Colorado Mountain Club), 919 (July 1996), 474-476.
"Adventuring in Colorado's San Juans: 1908," Colorado Heritage, (Summer 1993), 2-15.
"Summertime in the Rockies: Estes Park in 1904," Colorado Heritage, (Spring 1992), 40-46.
"Fenimore Cooper as Country Gentleman: A New Look at Cooper's Westchester Years," New York History, LXXII (July 1991), 299-318
"Satanstoe: Cooper's Debt to William Dunlap," American Literature, 38 (January 1967), 468-477.

Historian Laureate, Town of Estes Park, Colorado (honorary position created August 22, 2006 by Mayor and Board of Trustees).
Recipient, Houston City Council resolution of commendation, June 29, 1995.
Recipient, Texas State Senate resolution of esteem (S.R. No. 1261), May 26, 1995.
Recipient, Third Ward Redevelopment Council resolution of "appreciation and gratitude" for "outstanding and exemplary service," April 27, 1995.
Recipient, Houston Urban League's 1994 Quentin Meese Award for Community Service.
Mentor of the Year, University of Houston, 1993.
Mortar Board, "Top Prof," University of Houston, 1987.
Endowed Scholarship (Pickering/Carlisle Award) awarded annually by the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University
Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Houston.