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VISTABOOKS ENCORE is an offshoot of VistaBooks Publishing, adding titles from other publisehrs plus some out-of-print, rare, and even collecible books at VistaBooks Vintage.

VISTABOOKS itself is a publisher and distributor of books on outdoors, nature, American history, and national parks. Most of the VistaBooks-published titles remain in print, with some 350,000 copies in circulation. These can be seen at http://www.vistabooks. VistaBooks has acted as its own distributor of its titles, selling almost exclusively to resellers where its subject themes have interest. It has also listed for distribution thousands of similar titles from hundreds of publishers to these same outlets. Some of these have gotten "left over" and these are the ones offered here by VistaBooks Encore, many at bargain prices; in fact we are doing a bit of downsizing now and you can find real deals here. And many of these same titles have been/are being posted on eBay and ebid, where you are also welcome to browse under the store name vistabooksman.

Scope of VistaBooks: The VistaBooks publishing program has as its focus presenting  participant-observer accounts of historic events that occurred at particular sites, often now national or state parks or monuments. Visitors to those sites can thus in a virtual way relive contemporary, often first-hand experiences as well as read historians' reconstructions of those original times.

  • Thus VistaBooks has furthered the objectives of interpretation at these sites and generally helped the public understand the sites' histories.
  • Readers can therefore relate to the experiences during the  tragedy of the snowbound Donner party.
  • They can read Mark Twain's humorous account of mining-boom days at Virginia City, Nevada Territory or in early Hawaii.
  • There are tours of Montauk Point on Long Island, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and Yosemite by travel writers of early days including John Muir and Clarence King.
  • Bat Masterson tells about famous western gunfighters.
  • And Teddy Roosevelt relates how to ranch in the far west, before he became America's president.
  • There is  ranger history by an early national park director, plus Indian rock art, as well as maritime tales of whaling and lighthouses and life-saving service.
  • Each book is well illustrated, some by Thomas Moran or Frederic Remington.
  • John Muir relates his adventures in his travels.
  • VistaBooks' scope is thus national, although small. And therefore so is the scope of VistaBooks Outlet national. More about VistaBooks at www.vistabooks.
 A near-solo enterprise. We are about the smallest company you'll ever find doing what we do; our staff is 2. VistaBooks has been operating in Colorado continuously since 1979 (at Lakewood, Golden, Evergreen, and Grand Junction) and since 1990 in the Rocky Mountains of Summit County north of Silverthorne . We have also operated in California (Squaw Valley and Yosemite) and Nevada (Reno). An earlier company name was Outbooks; some of our imprints still carry that name. We also used the name National Park Publications. We thus trace our origins back to 1972, 50 years ago and counting. There have been stints working as a ranger or naturalist in national parks and as a planner in park interpretive and master planning. There has also been some free-lance magazine article writing and for other book publishers, and even years spent as a professional ski instructor (see the site SkiMyBest: exits. This background leads us toward our projects.

Thanks for looking at our blog. We hope to hear from you to learn about your interests; that will help us offer the books you want. Send to email@vistabooks.com.

William R. "Bill" Jones

Click on any maroon title below to view its Vintage listing (oldies/scarce/rare/collectible): (coming)

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