Mountain Scholar
Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from Colorado State University and the University Press of Colorado. It also serves as a dark archive for the Open Textbook Library.
Communities in Mountain Scholar
Select a community to browse its collections.
- Explore the Colorado State University community’s scholarly output as well as items from the University at large and the CSU Libraries.
- A limited number of titles are available here. To see all OTL titles, please visit the Open Textbook Library at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks. Only Open Textbook Library staff have access to all OTL Archive titles held in Mountain Scholar.
- Access is limited to University Press of Colorado members. Non-members: to purchase books, please visit https://upcolorado.com/.
Recent Submissions
There is no making it out: stories-so-far and the possibilities of new stories
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) García, Romeo, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
This book explores decolonization through archives and "hauntings," including historical injustices, traumas, and oppressive systems that continue to impact individuals and communities. A critical repositioning of archives for new narratives by centering alternative viewpoints.--Provided by publisher.
Local organic: food rhetorics and community writing for impact
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) House, Veronica, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
House explores the intersections between local food movements, sustainability, and civic engagement, emphasizing community connection's vital role in fostering food systems and describing how movements impact community health. The book blends academic rigor and practical insight.--Provided by publisher.
I woke a lake: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) McCabe, Susan, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
I Woke a Lake faces the anxieties of climate change, extinctions, and political chaos. Susan McCabe weaves together the fragile fabric of worlds imagined and lost, both palpable and present. Poised between reveries and ruins, the book traverses several layers: the Ice Age; the excavation of the oldest female body; ancient Los Angeles before humans; and, in Sweden (McCabe's mother's home country), the 377-million-year-old meteor-made Siljan lake, in conversation with the oldest tree alive. These channeled non-human voices, both whimsical and uncanny, animate more recent landscapes-such as Dalarna's nearby seventeenth-century copper mine, now closed, along with a fantastical modern ice hotel in a state of meltdown. The landmarks of loss are sometimes dizzy-making as McCabe celebrates her childhood pantheism and queer development in West Hollywood, mourns dead relatives and lost habitats, and confronts her masculine lineage, blotted out through grief, addiction, and war. I Woke a Lake holds up an invisible telephone connecting recurrent locales, among them, blasted orchards, the Veterans' Cemetery, Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home in Great Village, grieving parties, and a cryopreservation site. These different layers reverberate with each other, taking on a haunted and haunting music, reaching toward an otherworldly, tender overhearing.--Provided by publisher.
Latino Colorado: the struggle for equality in the Centennial State
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Sagás, Ernesto, author; University Press of Colorado, publisher
Sagás examines the multi-faceted historical experience of Latinxs in Colorado from the 19th century to the present and their fight for social and legal equality, shedding light on a historically marginalized community and advancing the understanding of radicalized dynamics in CO.--Provided by publisher.
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: natural history, ecology, and conservation
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Adams, Rick A., author; Smith, Wendy, illustrator; University Press of Colorado, publisher
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West is a guidebook to the behaviors, species, and habitats of bats throughout the Rocky Mountains. Adams displays a deep appreciation for bats, while also emphasizing the evolutionary pathways bats took to arrive at their present speciation.--Provided by publisher