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Around Rocky Mountain National Park

Suzanne Silverthorn
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Long before the nation’s 10th national park was established in the RockyMountains of Colorado, photographic images showing the rugged landscape of newly surveyed territories of the American West began circulating to settlements east of the Mississippi. The images from the mid- to late 1800s by William Henry Jackson and other skilled photographers were accompanied by first-hand accounts of adventure, opportunity, and an abundance of gold and silver.While Colorado’s mining boom was short-lived, many of the prospectors that had come seeking new fortunes settled into other pursuits. Among the early inhabitants was Joel Estes, who built a cabin and raised cattle around 1859 near the present-day Estes Park, which was platted in 1905.The town, bordering Rocky Mountain National Park, is named in his honor. While Estes’s time in the area was brief, Griff Evans took over the property and found that providing food and housing for early explorers was a convenient way to supplement an elusive ranching income. In anticipation of accommodations needed for even more visitors, the EstesPark Hotel was opened in 1877, followed by other hostelries. Across the Continental Divide in Middle Park, former prospector Joseph Wescott arrived in 1867, eventually becoming Grand Lake’s first postmaster. And so they came, creating a new presence on lands that had once served as tribal hunting grounds for the Ute, Arapaho, and Cheyenne.
Godina:
2015
Izdavač:
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Jezik:
english
ISBN 10:
1467133752
ISBN 13:
9781467133753
Serije:
Postcard History
Fajl:
EPUB, 18.23 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2015
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