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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 the time of its first recorded discovery by Joel Estes in 1859 to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915.

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Loomings; Griff Evans's Estes Park; Land Grabbing in Estes Park: The Arrival of the Earl of Dunraven; Isabella Bird's "Desperado": The Life and Death of Rocky Mountain Jim; The Pioneers of '75; The Uses of Scenery: Estes Park in the 1880s and 1890s; Mountaineering in Colorado: The Peaks About Estes Park; "Alone Amid the Wind's Mad Revelry": The Strange Career of Carrie Welton; 1900-1915: The Coming of a Town and a Park; Index.

This Blue Hollow

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      Publisher: University Press of Colorado
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780870818011, 978-0870818011
      ISBN10: 0870818015

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 the time of its first recorded discovery by Joel Estes in 1859 to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915.

      Table of Contents
      Loomings; Griff Evans's Estes Park; Land Grabbing in Estes Park: The Arrival of the Earl of Dunraven; Isabella Bird's "Desperado": The Life and Death of Rocky Mountain Jim; The Pioneers of '75; The Uses of Scenery: Estes Park in the 1880s and 1890s; Mountaineering in Colorado: The Peaks About Estes Park; "Alone Amid the Wind's Mad Revelry": The Strange Career of Carrie Welton; 1900-1915: The Coming of a Town and a Park; Index.

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