Only in Boulder
Subtitle: the county's colorful characters
By: Silvia Pettem
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781596299757
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Early residents and visitors; title: Chief Niwot's "curse" was an early attempt at growth control; title: A century ago, Emma Brookfield was Boulder's oldest old-timer; title: Jacob Adriance preached Boulder's first religious services; title: Peter Housel's memory now preserved with gravestone; title: Prospector "Indian Jack" died in poverty; title: Independent bookstores were favored by Bixby; title: Mary Rippon to receive posthumous honorary degree; title: Forrest Jones is a legend in Sunshine; title: Mary Bradford Rovetta reflects on Chautauqua childhood; title: pt. 2. Activists and politicians; title: Bryan well received in Boulder a century ago; title: Edith DeLong was a society girl turned activist; title: Dwight and her temperance workers "rested" at Chautauqua; title: Sherwood brought Chicago working women to Boulder and Gold Hill; title: CU President Farrand also served mankind; title: Campbell and McHarg were early civic leaders; title: Antoinette Bigelow earned respect of CU women; title: Ruth Cave Flowers was an advocate for human rights; title: Anna Belle Morris devoted her life to animals; title: pt. 3. Public servants; title: Letter carrier "Joe" kept on walking; title: Eben G. Fine was Boulder's biggest promoter; title: Sheriff Everson's family made the courthouse their home; title: Johnson prepared residents for survival; title: Father Fife was a Catholic priest and a colorful character; title: Dock Teegarden's love of the West spanned nine decades; title: pt. 4. Artists and photographers; title: Martha Maxwell won national acclaim for her animal displays; title: Photographer "Rocky Mountain Joe" left a legacy; title: Photography was one of Louis Meile's several trades; title: Matilda Vanderpoel was at home in Gold Hill; title: Georgia Snow worked behind the scenes at photo studio; title: Muriel Sibell Wolle remembered as her namesake is demolished; title: pt. 5. Musicians and entertainers; title: Tightrope walker Ivy Baldwin was at home in the air; title: Boulder-born O'Brien starred in theatre and films; title: Jazz musician Morrison got his start in Boulder County; title: Glenn Miller played at dance halls in the roaring twenties; title: Josephine Antoine's followers hung on every note; title: Chautauqua entertainer mimicked bird sounds; title: "Reveille with Beverly" cheered troops in the 1940s; title: Stripper Tempest Storm visited CU campus in 1955; title: pt. 6. Entrepreneurs; title: Andrew J. Macky was a self-made man; title: Henry Drumm made mapmaking his final career; title: Boulder's first female taxi drivers were a hit; title: Miners Dopp and Walker competed in rock-drilling; title: Johnson's popcorn wagon was a downtown Boulder institution; title: Newlyweds received Hotel Boulderado as a wedding present; title: Lefferdink left empty pockets in Boulder; title: Boulderado guests urged to "eat with Fred and sleep with Ed"; title: Helen Gilman's handicap a psychic gift; title: Harrison Cobb preserved county's mining and milling history; title: pt. 7. Unusual and legendary; title: Horace and Baby Doe Tabor's Boulder County years nearly forgotten; title: Charles Caryl's utopian dreams for Wallstreet never materialized; title: Tom Horn's a star in "Meet the spirits"; title: Heinrich preferred detective work to government; title: Byron White was CU's favorite son; title: Plane bomber executed for mother's murder; title: Dummy mum on canyon prank; title: Astronaut's Mother Treated as a Celebrity; title: Ellenor Hacker took out the trash and sisappeared for eleven years; title: "Lonesome cowboy" tried to marry his horse; title: Charlie Steen was a legend in his own time; title: Only in Boulder : Demmon's secret to long life.