A wonderful chronicle of a woman homesteader near
Estes Park, Colorado. About an inspiring woman of strength, human endurance, and the imagination to live outside the ordinary.
Weaving Mountain Memories
by Lorna Knowlton
This thoroughly researched book has just about all the information available on Allenspark, Colorado's history. It covers mining, tourism, community, schools, and early
settlers. The writing style is straightforward and easy to read. Well done.
Trails of Allenspark, Second
Edition
by Will McPhee
This book tells us as much about the man who wrote it as it tells us about the trails he walked and skied. Even if you never take a single one
of his hikes, you need to know the man. He was a broad-shouldered, heavy-set Scotsman who was a sociology professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In keeping with his ancestry of pioneers, and frontiersmen, he was a mountain man at heart.
The Magnificent Mountain Women, Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
by Janet Robertson
Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanized, act as
guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title.