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Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America By: Douglas Cazaux Sackman
When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August of 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man, but for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink: one culture was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. He and his people had ingeniously used everything they could get their hands on from whites to survive in hiding, and now Ishi was doing the same in San Francisco. The wild man was in fact doubly civilized--he had his own culture, and he opened himself up to that of modern America. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture, his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Though Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship and to explore what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild even as it was becoming ever-more urban and modern. Wild Men is about two individuals and two worlds intimately brought together in ways that turned out to be at once inspiring and tragic. Each man stood looking at the other from the opposite edge of a chasm: they reached out in the hope of keeping the other from falling in.
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Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195178524 $24.95 Click above to Buy. |
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The MacGregors of Black Canyon: An American Story By: James Pickering
This is the first comprehensive history of MacGregor Ranch and is published in a large 8 1/2 by 11 inch format. It contains more than 140 historic photos and maps as well as 16 pages of contemporary color photos.
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ISBN: 9781890781415 $0 Click above to Buy. |
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This Blue Hollow: Estes Park, The Early Years, 1859-1915 By: James Pickering
Pickering's account of the area's early history is told with the warmth and intimacy of a campfire tale and a myriad of details that substantiate his story. As a casual student of history, a former part-time resident and frequent visitor of Estes Park, and an avid hiker, "This Blue Hollow" is a fresh and exhilarating perspective on the crown jewel of the Rockies.
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ISBN: 9780870818011 $23.95 Click above to Buy. |
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America's Switzerland: Estes Park And Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years By: James Pickering
This book chronicles the dual history of the town of Estes Park and the nearby Rocky Mountain National Park. The story begins at the turn of the 20th century, where the author's This Blue Hollow: Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859-1915 (CH, Sep'00, 38-0517) left off, and it closes at the end of WW II. English professor Pickering (Univ. of Houston) is a long-time summer resident of Estes Park, and he brings to his study a familiarity with and love for the area. His primary sources include memoirs, oral histories, correspondence, park archival materials, and newspapers. Because his main emphasis is on the role tourism played in shaping development in both the town and the park, Pickering also relies heavily on the growing secondary literature dealing with that subject. His perspective seems unaffected, however, by other work investigating social conflict over the establishment and expansion of national parks.
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ISBN: 9780870818066 $29.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Those Castles of Wood By: Henry F. Petersen, Jr.
A good collection of information about the early lodges of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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ISBN: 0964158515 $12.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Staking Her Claim By: Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West
If it's a cold snowy winter where you are (as it is here -- thirty below last night) and you're a single female out West (as I am) and you live alone because you love it (as I do), then I've got a book for you. It's "Staking her Claim: Women Homesteaders in the West," partly letters, partly memoir, and partly scholarly reflection, with a nice little sprinkling of photos, this book is produced by the High Plains Press with its special sympathy for women. Reading it, one realizes that this is not something that just happened on the American Frontier at a certain point in time, but a kind of attitude and resourcefulness that persists on the fringes of conformity everywhere. One has to grant that homesteading on the American prairie was a special case, a way for women to escape from housewife drudgery or other scut work disguised as a career in nursing or teaching. As well, some of these tales speak of second generation homesteaders, young women who had grown up on the family homestead. They knew quite well what they were getting into and what it would take to survive. Now the stories come to us as though new, unworn by familiarity: homesteaders with pianos who painted watercolors to pin on walls they had plastered themselves. Good reminders that bad times can be survived, land can be lost and gained, community can be built and rebuilt in the most unpromising places.
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ISBN: 9780931271908 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Finding Hidden Valley A Recollective History of a Colorado Ski Area By: Kathryn Barth & Ann Leggett
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ISBN: 9780966565478 $34.95 Click above to Buy. |
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YMCA of the Rockies: Reflections, Traditions & Visions By: Jack R. Melton, LulaBeth Melton
The YMCA of the Rockies operates the two largest YMCA family vacation and conference centers in the world. This Association has touched the lives of millions of individuals in fulfilling its Mission of service by building relationships with families, conferences, youth and staff in a Christian environment.
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ISBN: 9780963699732 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Rocky Mountain Rustic: Historic Buildings of the Rocky Mountain National Park By: James Lindberg
Historic buildings of the Rocky Mountain National Park area
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ISBN: 9780930487409 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains By: Isabella Bird
In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened More...to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey.
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ISBN: 9780806113289 $7.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Magic in the Mountains By: James Frank and R. Paul Firnhaber
Magic is the word the authors have chosen to characterize Estes Park, Colorado, the mountain community where they have lived for many years. This unique place, snuggled amidst the snow-clad peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park, is quite unlike most others. It is a modern and comfortable town of thousands, a host for millions of visitors annually, but its heart beats to the rhythm of the mountains, lakes, forests, and animals that make up the natural world around it. From the authors' perspective, these combine to create a quality that makes this place special, yes, magic. Here hundreds of photographs descriptive of every aspect of this community are complimented with the stories and tales, many seldom told, about its life. These combine in a sensitive and creative way to reveal the unique qualities of an even more unique place in the Colorado Rockies. 128 pages. Soft Cover. 1st edition. 10"w x 8.5"h.
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ISBN: 9780979263118 $24.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Rocky Mountain National Park: Pictorial History By: Kenneth Jessen
"This pictorial history is a journey into the past and draws heavily on the Bobbie Heisterkamp postcard collection and from the files of Rocky Mountain National Park," said Jessen. "It illustrated the many changes that have taken palce to this special mountain enviornment from the time commercial development first started." There were lodges, rental cabins and several service stations. A couple of stores and even a post office operated in the park for many years. --The Estes Park-Trail Gazette Friday, July 25, 2008 Using historic photographs from various sources, Kenneth Jessen has put together a look at the early history of Rocky Mountain National Park. It is a surprize to most readers that the park once including mining and even a mining camp. Logging also played an important role in the commercial development of the area. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the many lodges that once operated within the park. The policy of the National Park Service has been to return the land to its natural state and hundreds of these structures haved been removed. Other topics, such as the entrance stations and water diversion structures, are included in this book. It has a pictorial history of the Hidden Valley Ski Area. --Kenneth Jessen
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ISBN: 9781928656067 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Then & Now By: Mic Clinger
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ISBN: 9781565795327 $32.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Sound: Native Teachings & Visionary Art By: Joseph Rael
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ISBN: $30 Click above to Buy. |
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High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women By: Marilyn Griggs Riley
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ISBN: 9781555663759 $16 Click above to Buy. |
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Ute Tales By: Anne M. Smith/ Alden C.Hayes
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ISBN: 9780874804423 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Old Jules By: Mari Sandoz
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,” Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything that got off the train,’ of the droughts, the storms, the wind and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told me by Old Jules himself.” This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by Linda M. Hasselstrom.
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ISBN: 9780803293243 $16.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Book of the Hopi By: Frank Waters
PART ONE. THE MYTHS: Creation of the Four Worlds PART TWO. THE LEGENDS: Migrations of the Clans PART THREE. THE MYSTERY PLAYS: The Ceremonial Cycle PART FOUR. THE HISTORY: The Lost White Brother Hopi Alphabet
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ISBN: 9780140045277 $16 Click above to Buy. |
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Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth By: Kristen Iversen
Molly Brown the gun toting, vulgar saloon-girl-made-good has become a staple of American myth through the Broadway and Hollywood musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the hit film Titanic. In this extensively researched biography the first serious work on Brown Iversen, an editor at Westcliffe Publishers and an independent scholar, reveals that Brown was a far more fascinating and important figure than her stage or screen portrayals suggest. True to her legend, Margaret Tobin Brown was born in 1867 to poor Irish immigrants in Hannibal, Mo., became the grande dame of Denver society after her husband hit pay dirt in his silver mine and survived the sinking of the Titanic. She was also, however, a prominent philanthropist and social reformer focusing on the rights of children; an ardent suffragist who contemplated several runs for Congress; a frequent liberal spokesperson for women's, labor and race issues; and, late in life, an actress of some note. A devout Catholic, Brown publicly challenged her church's stand on women's suffrage; invited Jewish women to work on her high-society fund-raising events; and, although she was a mine owner, defended the unionization of miners. Iversen is particularly adept at placing Brown in the context of her times, making the most of this opportunity to reexamine the Gilded Age and early 20th century through the lens of feminism and economic and social change. (July) Copyright 1999 Publishers Weekly Reviews
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ISBN: 9781555662370 $18 Click above to Buy. |
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Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies By: Virginia Cornell
Recounts how Dr. Anderson overcame tuberculosis and initial reluctance among her patients to establish a long and respected career
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ISBN: 9780962789656 $14.95 Click above to Buy. |
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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, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.
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ISBN: 9780803289956 $16.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Best of Covered Wagon Women By: Kenneth L. Holmes / Michael L. Tate
Eight firsthand accounts of women who braved the overland trails during the great 19th-century westward migration are collected here. The accounts were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and family and friendship bonds that characterized the overland experience. Some were written by educated women, and others bear the mark of cabin learning, with archaic spelling and a simplicity of expression. Each account begins with an introduction to its author and what is known about her life. A few b&w historical photos are included.
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ISBN: 9780806139142 $19.95 Click above to Buy. |
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Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 By: David Dary
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations.
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ISBN: 9780307455420 $17 Click above to Buy. |
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It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park By: Phyllis J Perry
True Tales from Rocky Mountain National Park From a bloody ambush at Grand Lake to a sudden flash flood in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado’s largest national park. Meet Patrick Finan and Tim Schuett, two campers whose trips were cut short after a black bear’s brutal surprise attack. Learn what Hillel Ben-Avi endured after becoming lost near Fairchild Mountain for four days. And find out why noontime is a risky hour to go hiking in the summer—the news may shock you.
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ISBN: 9780762742387 $12.95 Click above to Buy. |
