Walter R Borneman Books in Order

This classic guide maps practical routes up Colorado's highest peaks and adds history, elevation profiles, and safety-minded advice. It's built for hikers and climbers who want a clear, responsible way to tackle the fourteeners.

Borneman traces the Denver and Rio Grande line over Marshall Pass and into Gunnison Country. Using photographs, maps, and local history, he captures the engineering gamble and railroad ambition behind a key Colorado route.

A companion to his fourteener guide, this book explores notable Colorado summits below 14,000 feet. Borneman offers routes, maps, and mountain background for climbers looking beyond the state's most famous checklist.

This biography follows inventor and entrepreneur Walter V. Berry from failed ventures to the steelmaking breakthrough that made his fortune. It also looks at the philanthropy he and Idun Berry built in support of children's health research.

Borneman tells Alaska as a long struggle over land, wealth, and who gets to shape the frontier. The story moves from Russian fur traders and gold seekers to war, oil, and modern battles over development.

A brisk history of the War of 1812, from early blunders to naval victories and New Orleans. Borneman argues that the conflict helped forge American identity and elevated a new generation of leaders.

This large-format tribute pairs Borneman's writing with Todd Caudle's photographs of Colorado's highest mountains. Alongside the scenery, readers get short histories and telling details that explain why the fourteeners inspire so much devotion.

Starting with young George Washington in the Ohio Valley, Borneman follows the war that reshaped North America. He ties frontier fighting, Native alliances, and imperial rivalry into one clear, fast-moving narrative.

James K. Polk served only one term, but Borneman shows how much he changed. The book follows Polk's rise, his expansionist agenda, and the fierce political fights behind Texas, Oregon, and the war with Mexico.

After the first transcontinental line, rival companies raced to control the best routes across the Southwest. Borneman turns boardroom deals, mountain passes, and brutal construction work into a vivid history of railroad expansion.

Borneman compares Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King, the only four Americans to reach the rank of fleet admiral. Their clashing styles and shared pressures become a sharp portrait of how the U.S. Navy won the war at sea.

This book narrows in on the tense months from late 1774 to July 1775, when protest became open rebellion. Borneman follows the road from Lexington and Concord to Bunker Hill and Washington's arrival.

Originally published as Rival Rails, this edition follows the fierce contest to build a faster rail link through the Southwest. Borneman keeps one eye on powerful railroad barons and the other on workers facing dangerous ground.

Rather than cover an entire life, Borneman focuses on MacArthur's four decisive war years in the Pacific. The result is a close look at strategy, ego, alliances, and the hard path from the Philippines to Japan's surrender.

Borneman retells Pearl Harbor through the brothers serving together aboard the USS Arizona. By following the men and the families waiting at home, he gives a familiar tragedy a more intimate and heartbreaking shape.