Pioneers of the Roaring Fork / Len Shoemaker.

Author
Shoemaker, Len, 1881-1973 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Denver : Sage Books, ©1965.
  • ©1965
Description
262 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Contents
  • Introductory note
  • Source of data
  • Contributions to Roaring Fork Valley
  • Additional news items
  • Roaring Fork Valley newspapers
  • Charles L. Moore
  • Theodore Ackermann
  • Arthur B. Foster
  • Foster's letters
  • David R.C. Brown
  • Memo of trip from Blackhawk to Aspen
  • Fortune smiles on D.R.C.
  • Some of Brown's subsequent activities
  • Captain Isaac Cooper
  • Cooper family and Satank
  • Bar Fork ranch
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain school
  • Little red schoolhouse
  • Satank schoolteachers
  • Barnette T. Napier
  • Josiah W. Deane
  • Charles H. Harris
  • Frederick Light
  • Taylor Pass toll road
  • John M. Leahy
  • Davis H. Waite
  • William M. Dinkel
  • J. Edwin White
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Tinothy C. Stapleton
  • Benedict B. Bourg
  • Independence Pass toll road
  • Warner A. Root writes for the Aspen Times ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4
  • S. Price Sloss
  • William C. Tagert
  • Walter P. Devereux
  • Freemasonry in the valley
  • Henry C. Rogers
  • R. Peers Coulter
  • Thomas F. McClure
  • Two pioneer families unite
  • George S. Swigart
  • Early mining activities around Aspen
  • Hiram C. Shoemaker
  • A trek to the Roaring Fork Valley
  • Life in the valley
  • Another short trek
  • Fate of the migrants
  • "Falling leaf"
  • Abner J. Nichols
  • Watson siding and post office
  • Farmers' alliance hall
  • Pioneer farmers' sub alliance
  • James W. Coryell
  • Henry Wurtz
  • James J. Hegerman
  • Charles M. Rhyne
  • Henry Gilbert
  • Aspen, "crystal city of the Rockies"
  • Glenwood Springs, "Carlsbad of America"
  • Development of the hot springs
  • Hotel Colorado
  • Local business men buy hot springs properties
  • An intersting list
  • George McLaren
  • Williams brothers
  • Jeremie J. Gerbaz
  • Glenwood's strawberry day
  • Charles Dailey
  • Lincoln gulch
  • Silver Queen annual
  • Silver Queen statue
  • Aspen schools
  • The 1909 school board
  • The 1910 board of education
  • Aspen High School alumni
  • Dr. Marshall H. Dean
  • Theodore von Rosenberg
  • John P. Thomas
  • Ernest E. Fordham
  • Jacob Lucksinger
  • Daniel G. Edgerton
  • Gerkin brothers
  • James L. Arthur
  • Nicolo Pretti
  • Bits of information about other pioneers
  • Silverdust trails of yesterday
  • Contributors to this manuscript.
  • Table of illustrations. Aspen in 1880's
  • Sellar, on Colorado midland
  • Hell Gate
  • Thomasville RR depot
  • Spring Gulch baseball players
  • Independence
  • Arthur and Hemet Foster
  • Curtis-Foster house at lakes
  • Brown's camping-fishing party
  • Brown brothers
  • D.R.C. Brown and children
  • Brown's party in camp
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain school and Mt. Sopris
  • Footbridge near Snowmass lake
  • Western stage lines coach
  • Jack Leahy's cabin
  • Old jail house at Ashcroft
  • Wm. M. Dinkel
  • Avalanche creek
  • Exploring crevasse near Bourg ranch
  • Independence Pass road near Windy Point
  • Engineer Coleman's construction camp
  • Devil's punch bowl
  • Aspen in the 1890's
  • Early tram line
  • William C. Tagert family
  • Price Sloss
  • Fall Creek falls
  • Walter B. Devereux
  • Alvin Devereux
  • Grottos
  • Castle Creek near Aspen
  • George S. Swigart family
  • Bushwacker mine
  • Mollie Gibson mine
  • Hiram C. Shoemaker family
  • H.C. Shoemaker in G.A.R. uniform
  • Elvira Shoemaker
  • Len Shoemaker family
  • Augusta Shoemaker
  • Les Shoemaker
  • Watson hall
  • Trail riders camp at Snowmass lake
  • Percy Hagerman on Mt. Sopris
  • Buckskin Pass
  • Henry Wurtz family
  • Henry Wurtz home
  • Aspen in the late 1880's
  • Glenwood Springs pool and bathhouse
  • Len Shoemaker family at pool
  • George McLaren family
  • George McLaren home
  • Colorado Midland at Hell Gate
  • Lime Creek boardinghouse
  • Horace Williams
  • John Williams
  • Ambrose Williams, 1959
  • Ambrose Williams, 1908
  • Lincoln Gulch road
  • Farmer family
  • A popular campground
  • Henry Gilbert family
  • First high school
  • Home of Carbondale Avalanche 1888
  • Hamlin Edgerton home
  • Charles and Sabina Gerkin
  • Trail workers at Crater lake
  • CF & I tipple at Spring Gulch
  • Richard Malloy and Charles Huskinson
  • Hallam lake.
LCCN
64025348
OCLC
1980615
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