Title: This blue hollow : Estes Park, the early years, 1859-1915 /
Authors: Pickering, James H.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Resorts Colorado Estes Park History.; Estes Park (Colo.) History.
Abstract: ""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.
Contents: Loomings -- Griff Evan'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 1880 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.