A C OLORADO NATIVE , L INDA W OMMACK is a Colorado historian and historical consultant. An award-winning writer, she has written eighteen books on Colorado history, including Murder in the Mile High City; Colorados Landmark Hotels; From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorados Pioneer Cemeteries; Our Ladies of the Tenderloin: Colorados Legends in Lace; Colorado History for Kids; Colorados Historic Mansions and Castles; Ann Bassett, Colorados Cattle Queen; Haunted History of Cripple Creek and Teller County; Growing Up with the Wild Bunch; and Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. She has also contributed to two anthologies concerning Western Americana.
Linda has been a contributing editor for True West Magazine since 1995 and has been a staff writer for Wild West magazine, contributing a monthly article since 2004. She has written for the Tombstone Epitaph, the nations oldest continuously published newspaper, since 1993. Linda also writes for several publications throughout her state.
Lindas research has been used in several documentary accounts for the national Wild West History Association, historical treatises of the Sand Creek Massacre, and as critical historic aspects for the Lawman & Outlaw Museum as well as the Heritage Center, both in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Linda feeds her passion for history with activities in many local, state, and national preservation projects, participating in historical venues and speaking engagements, hosting tours, and is involved in historical reenactments across the state.
She is a member of both the state and national Cemetery Preservation Associations, the Gilpin County Historical Society, the national Wild West History Association, and is an honorary lifetime member of the Pikes Peak Heritage Society. As a member of Women Writing the West, Linda has organized quarterly meetings for Colorado members of WWW for the past ten years, served on the 2014 and 2020 WWW conference steering committees, and recently concluded her term as a board member. Linda is the chair for the Women Writing the West DOWNING Journalism Award.
T HE E ASTERN P LAINS
South of Interstate 70
Alta Vista School, State Register 6/9/1999, 5PW.42
Aroya Schoolhouse
Bent County High School, Las Animas Junior High School, and Las Animas Middle School, National Register 7/30/2010, 5BN.382
Crowley Consolidated High School, National Register 6/9/1999, 5CW.27
Crowley School, National Register 7/28/1999, 5CW.26
Eads School Gymnasium, National Register 8/20/2013, 13000607
Hartman School and Gymnasium, State Register 3/13/1996, 5PW.74
Holly Gymnasium, National Register 4/24/2007, 5PW.268
Huerfano County High School, State Register 9/14/2005; National Register 11/2/2005, 5HF.2183
Kim High School and Elementary School, State Register, 4/24/2007, 5LA.1815; National Register 8/1/2008, 5LA.1389
North La Junta School, National Register 6/25/1992, 5OT.276
Second Central School, State Register 6/12/1996, 5KC.135
Springfield Schoolhouse, National Register 10/5/1977, 5BA.313
St. Mary School, State Register 9/10/2003, 5HF.2162
Wild Horse School, State Register 12/11/1996, 5CH.122
Wiley Rock Schoolhouse, National Register of Historic Places 2/20/2004, 5PW.196
North of Interstate 70
Ault High School, State Register 12/8/1999, 5WL.2772
Brighton High School, State Register 5/14/1997, B489; National Register 1/23/1998, 5AM.580
Central Platoon School, State Register 11/5/2001, 5MR.470; National Register 11/5/2001, 5MR.764
Colorado State Teachers College (UNC), State Register 12/09/1998, 5WL.2883
Daniels School, National Register 7/6/2005, 5WL.3168
Eaton High School, National Register 9/11/1996, 5WL.890
Greeley Central High School, State Register 3/10/1999; National Register 4/16/1999, 5WL.2916
Greeley High School and Greeley Grade School, State Register 7/23/1981, 5WL.315
Greeley Junior High School, National Register 10/11/2003, 5WL.2572
Hoyt School, State Register 11/29/2007, 5MR.870
Knearl School, State Register 11/5/2001, 5MR.764; National Register 1/31/1997, 5MR.627
Lincoln School, National Register 4/27/2010, 5MR.892
Old Trail School, National Register 4/20/2004, 5MR.818
Ovid High School, State Register 8/9/2000, 5SW.78
Prospect Valley School, State Register 3/11/1998, 5WL.2562
T HE F RONT R ANGE
Interstate 25 South
Bellvue School, National Register 10/11/2003, 5LR.792
Black Forest School, National Register 11/3/1992, 5EP.1753
Castle Rock School, National Register 9/20/1984, 5DA.342
Central High School (Pueblo), National Register 11/14/1979, 5PE.521
Cherry Creek Schoolhouse, National Register 3/8/1988, 5AH.213
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, State Register 3/11/1998, 5EP.2740
Colorado State University, National Register 6/15/1978, 5LR.472
Colorado Agricultural College (Laurel Hall), State Register 12/13/1995, 5LR.1964
Mechanical Arts Building, State Register 12/13/1995, 5LR.1965
Nutrition Research Laboratory, State Register 12/13/1995, 5LR.1963
Simon Guggenheim Hall, State Register 12/13/1995, 5LR.1962
Corona School (Dora Moore), State Register 6/19/1978, 5DV.185
Curtis School, National Register 6/25/1992, 5AH.459
Denver East High School, National Register 7/27/2006, 5DV.2091
Denver North Side High School, National Register 7/19/1992, 5DV.1097
Denver South Side High School, National Register 7/19/1992, 5DV.1112
Denver West High School, State Register 9/20/2002, 5DV.1985
Douglas County School
Doyle Schoolhouse, National Register 4/10/1980, 5PE.391
Edison School, National Register 6/19/1985, 5PE.4215
Emerson School, National Register 9/26/1997, 5DV.1495
Evans School, National Register 10/3/1980, 5DV.155
Fruitdale Grade School, National Register 3/20/2013, 5AM.2084
George W. Clayton Trust and College, National Register 5/02/2006, 5DV.310
Glen Grove School, National Register 11/5/1974, 5DA.214
Indian Park School, National Register 2/8/1978, 5DA.211
Laurel School, National Register 10/31/1980, 5LR.463
Littleton Log Cabin Schoolhouse, State Register 4/18/1998, 5AH.1430
Lone Tree School, State Register 3/8/1995, 5DA.344
Loretto Heights (Colorado Heights University), National Register 9/18/1974, 5DV.162
Lowell Elementary School, State Register 3/8/1995, 5EP.3958
Melvin School, National Register 1/5/1984, 5AH.164
Old Fort Collins High School
Pinewood School
Pleasant DeSpain School, National Register 8/30/1990, 5AM.442
Pleasant Valley School
Plummer School, State Register 9/11/1996, 5LR.778; National Register 4/29/1999, 5LR.778
Pueblo Central High School (Stone Schoolhouse), National Register 11/14/1979, 5PE.502
Sacred Heart School, State Register 3/8/2000, 5DV.997
Spring Valley School, National Register 12/18/1978, 5DA.219
Stove Prairie School, State Register 3/11/1998, 5LR.848
Union High School, State Register 1/14/2000, 5AM.67
University of Denver, State Register 5DV.174
Westlake School, State Register 11/9/1994, 5BF.1
Westminster University, National Register 8/10/1979, 5AM.67
T HE R OCKY M OUNTAINS & W ESTERN S LOPE
North of Interstate 70
Buford School, State Register 2/24/2006, 5RB.4419
Bunce School, State Register 5BL.2632; National Register 1/29/2008, 5BL.10293