From the time of Coronado's discovery to the era of modern ski resorts, men have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. The author traces the range's colorful history.

Colorado Collection

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Came a day when I wanted to get married and needed a stake. To my youthful optimism, geared as it was to the 'thirty-a-month-and- found' wages paid cowboys the vast affluence of five dollars a day in the gold mines seemed to offer the quickest solution.

The lively story of the people of the southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe.

A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.

""In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the "westward vision" that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers'...