Beyond the Land of Gold : The Life and Times of Perry A. Burgess

by Valentine, Rebecca; Thompson, Travis

• ISBN13: 9780982708910
• ISBN10: 0982708912
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Thompson Media

Summary

Perry A. Burgess was many things: diarist, pioneer, prospector, banker, investor, inventor - the list is long and varied. His name appears in numerous historical works published since the 1950s, yet much of his story has never been told. In 1866 he traveled to Montana with his uncles and 300 head of cattle up the Bloody Bozeman Trail during Sioux Chief Red Cloud's war. A pioneer of Colorado and one of the earliest settlers of Steamboat Springs, Burgess was a longtime friend and partner of some of the wealthiest businessmen in the nineteenth-century American West. Using Perry's diaries, family photographs, and newly discovered personal essays published in the Steamboat Pilot as their focus, Valentine and Thompson piece together the life of a remarkable man and his family, whose adventurous spirit was matched only by their willingness to risk all for the unknown.

Table of Contents

Family Tree	p. II
Foreword	p. VIII
Acknowledgements	p. XII
List of Images	p. XIII
Introduction	p. 3
Hannah Dustin - Perry's Infamous Ancestor	p. 7
Early Mormon Era - Birth of Perry A. Burgess	p. 25
Mormon Exodus - Perry's First Trail Ride	p. 53
California Gold Rush - Family Business Begins	p. 79
Utah War - Perry's Uncles Go to War	p. 95
Colorado Gold Rush - Perry Begins to Write	p. 117
'Bloody Bozeman' Trail - Perry's Montana Diaries & Recollections	p. 145
Montana Years - A Trapper's Diary & Recollections	p. 253
Missouri Banking - A Change in Careers	p. 351
The Founding of Steamboat Springs	p. 367
Colorado Banking - Investing in the New State	p. 395
Hahns Peak - Perry's Return to Mining	p. 415
Steamboat Springs, Colorado - Home at Last	p. 437
Death of a Pioneer	p. 457
Biographical Notes	p. 475
Notes	p. 491
Bibliography	p. 497
Index	p. 503
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