Pathfinders directory:
Topical guides to special collections
at the Delaney Southwest Research Library

The Center of Southwest Studies has hundreds of special collections.  The purpose of the pathfinders we have developed is to lead the researcher to collections that may contain useful historical documentation pertinent to a certain topic of study.  These are especially helpful when doing research, because they can facilitate bridging the researcher's subject-based inquiry with the Center's provenance-based method of archivally arranging collections by the name of the person or entity that created or used them.  Each of this should be considered partial guide, drawing your attention to what we currently perceive as highlights in the hundreds of CSWS special collections pertaining to each of these subjects.

Pictured below is Fort Lewis College History Professor Duane Smith, using a photo collection at the Delaney Southwest Research Library.  Dr. Smith has had a monumental role in attracting many of the collections that were donated to the Center of Southwest Studies.

Pathfinder #1             Hispanic-American history of the Southwest

Pathfinder #2             Ute-related special collections at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #3             Water research resources  (Southwestern U.S.)

Pathfinder #4             National Archives microfilm of federal records pertaining to the Southwest

Pathfinder #5             Navajo-related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #6             Environmental collections at the Center of Southwest Studies (Southwestern U.S.; especially the Four Corners region)

Pathfinder #7             Genealogy of the Four Corners region

 Pathfinder #8            Southwest archaeological work:  a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #9             Jicarilla Apache-related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #10           Railroad-related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies  (focus: narrow-gauge railroads of western and southwestern Colorado)

Pathfinder #11           Native American Studies primary source materials at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #12           Politics and government of southwestern Colorado: a guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #13           Movies of the Durango area: a descriptive list of feature films that were filmed in Southwestern Colorado

Pathfinder #14           Mines and mining collections: a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #15           Geology of the Southwest: a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #16           Wars affecting the Southwest: a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

Pathfinder #17           Recreation, travel, and leisure of the Southwest: a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies

These collections are located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College.  Interested researchers should phone the archivist at 970/247-7126 or send electronic mail to the archivist at: archives@fortlewis.edu .   Click here to use our E-mail Reference Request Form.  The Center does not have a budget for outgoing long-distance phone calls to answer reference requests, so please email if you wish to receive a response from the Center.  To request reproductions/copies, click here for instructions.

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