This blue hollow
Subtitle: Estes Park, the early years, 1859-1915
By: James H. Pickering.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Niwot, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Estes Park (Colo.) -- History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.