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title	:	This Blue Hollow : Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859-1915
author	:	Pickering, James H.
publisher	:	University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin	:	0870815288
print isbn13	:	9780870815287
ebook isbn13	:	9780585370545
language	:	English
subject	Estes Park (Colo.)--History.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	F784.E85P53 1999eb
ddc	:	978.8/68
subject	:	Estes Park (Colo.)--History.

Page i "This Blue Hollow"

Page ii Co-winner of the 1999 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize The CEH Publication Prize was created in 1998, and the first awards were made in 1999. The prize annually supports publication of outstanding nonfiction works that have strong humanities content and that make an area of humanities research more available to the Colorado public. The CEH Publication Prize moneys are shared by the University Press of Colorado and the author whose works are being recognized. The Colorado Endowment for the Humanities is a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of humanities education for all Coloradans. In 1999, CEH is celebrating 25 years of people, programs, and ideas.

Page iii "This Blue Hollow" Estes Park, the Early Years, 18591915 James H. Pickering

Page iv Copyright 1999 by the University Press of Colorado International Standard Book Number 0870815288 Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pickering, James H. This blue hollow : Estes Park, the early years, 18591915 / James H. Pickering. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-528-8 (alk. paper) 1. Estes Park (Colo.)History. I. Title. F784.E85P53 1999 978.8'68dc21 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Contents List of Figures vii Preface xi Chapter 1. Loomings 1 Chapter 2. Griff Evans's Estes Park 17 Chapter 3. Land Grabbing in Estes Park: The Arrival of the Earl of Dunraven 33 Chapter 4. Isabella Bird's "Desperado": The Life and Death of Rocky Mountain Jim 53 Chapter 5. The Pioneers of '75 81 Chapter 6. The Uses of Scenery: Estes Park in the 1880s and 1890s 107 Chapter 7. Mountaineering in Colorado: The Peaks about Estes Park 141 Chapter 8. "Alone Amid the Wind's Mad Revelry": The Strange Career of Carrie Welton 171 Chapter 9. 19001915: The Coming of a Town and a Park 189 Afterword 237 Endnotes 243 Index 301

Page vii Figures 1.1. Map of Estes Park and Surroundings, 1905 xviii-xix 1.2. Visit of the Arapaho, 1914. Standing, Left to Right, Shep Husted, Gun Griswold, Sherman Sage, Tom Crispen, and Oliver Toll; sitting, David Hawkins

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