Publication

2005-02-01 - University Press of Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

79,000 words, Guess

Page Count

316 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100870818015
  • ISBN-139780870818011
  • LibraryThing1104891
  • Goodreads157383
  • OCLC Control Number149275730
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780870818011
  • Open LibraryOL8345527M

Description

""This Blue Hollow" is the first comprehensive account of the early history of Estes Park, Colorado, the "gem of the Rockies." In this enthralling narrative, James H. Pickering traces the development of Estes Park as a mountain resort community from 1859, when Joel Estes first saw it, to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. Though Estes and his family stayed only briefly, others quickly followed: hunters, homesteading settlers, lumbermen, mountaineers, artists, writers, and vacationers. They came for many reasons: for settlement, exploration, and exploitation, later for escape, health, recreation, and renewal. Their collective experiences and accomplishments - their successes as well as their failures - are chronicled in this book."--Jacket.

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