The Rocky Mountain National Park Reader.

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Author / Creator: Pickering, James H.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Chicago : University of Utah Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction / James H. Pickering
  • 1. Preface to "The Rocky Mountain National Park," 1915 / Enos A. Mills
  • 2. Native American Presence: The Return of the Arapaho, 1914 / Oliver W. Toll
  • 3. Arapaho Tales and Legends / Oliver W. Toll
  • 4. The 1914 Arapaho Visit: Its True Significance / James H. Pickering
  • 5. First Glimpse of the Estes Valley, 1859 / Milton Estes
  • 6. First Ascent of Longs Peak, 1868 / Lewis W. Keplinger
  • 7. The Earl Comes to Colorado, 1872 / Earl of Dunraven
  • 8. An English Lady in Estes Park, 1873 / Isabella Lucy Bird
  • 9. A Fishing Expedition, 1875 / Lewis B. France
  • 10. My First Winter in Estes Park, 1850-1943 / Abner Sprague
  • 11. Summering at MacGregor Ranch, 1878 / Carrie Adell Strahorn
  • 12. Camping in Moraine Park, c. 1878 / S. Anna Gordon
  • 13. The Death of Carrie Welton, 1884 / James H. Pickering
  • 14. The Peaks about Estes Park, 1887-1888 / Frederick H. Chapin
  • 15. William Allen White and the Boys of '89 in Moraine Park / James H. Pickering and Nancy Pickering Thomas
  • 16. A Trip to Stones Peak, 1890 / Frederick Funston
  • 17. Exploring and Mapping Wild Basin, 1908 / William S. Cooper
  • 18. The Beaver's Engineering, 1913 / Enos A. Mills
  • 19. Vanished in the Mountains: The Eighteen-Year Search for the Reverend Thornton R. Sampson, 1915 / James H. Pickering
  • 20. Superintendent's Monthly Report, 1915 / Charles Russell Trowbridge
  • 21. Squeaky Bob Wheeler and Hotel de Hardscrabble / Clark Secrest
  • 22. The Tourist on the Trail, 1916 / Julia Ann Prouty
  • 23. Publicizing the New Park: The Eve of Estes, 1917 / James H. Pickering
  • 24. "Charlie, Did I Ever Tell You . . . " : The Death of Agnes Vaille, 1925 / Walter Kiener
  • 25. The Highest Hotel in the World, 1927 / Merrill J. Mattes
  • 26. The Remarkable Stettner Brothers, 1927 / Dougald MacDonald.
  • 27. Winter Patrol, c. 1928 / Jack C. Moomaw
  • 28. CCC Days, 1933 / Dorr G. Yeager
  • 29. Conquering the Diamond, 1960 / Stephen Trimble
  • 30. The Tundra of Trail Ridge, 1972 / Anne Zwinger and Beatrice H. Willard
  • 31. The White-tailed Ptarmigan, 2003 / SueEllen Campbell
  • 32. Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park: Dynamics and Management, 2014 / Michael Coughenour
  • 33. The Pika's Last Stand: The Effects of Alpine Climate Change, 2014 / Thomas D. Gootz
  • Timeline of Human History
  • Further Reading
  • Sources and Permissions.