Carroll E. Allison
1 book in the catalogue, published 2006.
Carroll E. Allison wrote Cochetopa Dreams, a 288-page novel set on a ranch near Saguache, Colorado, which we published in 2006 according to Open Library. It is the one book of his on our list.
About Carroll E. Allison
We know Carroll E. Allison mainly through the book. In a March 2025 episode of the Beyond the Range podcast, he talks about what inspired the novel, including personal experiences and what he calls synchronicities that occurred while he was writing. The episode page offers no biography, and we found none elsewhere that we could read.
What the books share
Cochetopa Dreams is a ranch story with a fresh start at its center: a woman and her son take a caretaker job in the Saguache country. The podcast describes it as a historical novel of western Colorado with ghostly encounters. Subjects are dreams, ranch life and fiction.
The subjects this author is catalogued under. Open Library record.
Next steps for readers of this author
Reading about the ghost story setting
The podcast describes the novel as blending frontier life with ghostly encounters. A reader who enjoys that can read real 1870s accounts of the region, such as the Packer article, and notice where history and legend overlap.
Listening to the author
The March 2025 Beyond the Range episode is where Allison discusses what inspired the book. Listen first if you want his own words, then read the novel and decide whether his account matches your reading.
Go deeper
Carroll E. Allison's novel is rooted in the Saguache country of Colorado. These resources cover two figures tied to that region in the nineteenth century, and the agency that served the Ute people nearby.
Alferd Packer
A Colorado Encyclopedia article on the prospector who told of being lost in the San Juan Mountains in 1874. It says he arrived at the Los Piños Indian Agency and was later jailed in Saguache.
Otto Mears
An article on the businessman who helped establish Saguache. It says a toll road from Saguache to Lake City via Cochetopa Pass was finished by August 1874.
Los Piños Indian Agency, first site
The Colorado Encyclopedia's agency article also describes the first agency, built high in the mountains near Cochetopa Pass and hard to supply.
Colorado Encyclopedia: Los Piños Agency → (opens in a new tab)
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