A Pikes Peak Partnership: The Penroses and the Tutts

by Noel, Thomas J.; Norman, Cathleen M.

• ISBN13: 9780870816093
• ISBN10: 0870816098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

Spencer Pen rose, the maverick son of a wealthy Philadelphia clan, was the most prominent playboy in the Pikes Peak region. A partnership with his old Philadelphia chum, Charles L. Tutt, and marriage to a Detroit grande dame, Julie Villiers, ultimately converted this playboy into Colorado's premier philanthropist.

In A Pikes Peak Partnership, historians Tom Noel and Cathleen Norman tell the incredible tale of the two families who transformed Colorado Springs and its environs into a tourist haven. By building the Broadmoor Hotel, the Pikes Peak highway, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and establishing or operating local tourist railroads and cog railways, Penrose, who once proclaimed that "any man who works after lunch is a fool", made the Pikes Peak region a pleasure seeker's paradise.

With the use of previously unavailable family papers and more than 200 rare illustrations, this colorful saga follows the lives of Penrose and Tutt and their families as they transformed tiny and staid Colorado Springs from a colony of tuberculars into Colorado's second largest ci

Author Biography

Thomas J. Noel is Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	ix
R. Thayer Tutt Jr.
Introduction	xi
Philadelphia	1	(16)
Pikes Peak	17	(12)
Cripple Creek	29	(22)
Utah Copper	51	(18)
Colorado Springs	69	(24)
The Broadmoor	93	(30)
The Penrose Lifestyle	123	(20)
Sugar and Water, Railroads and Tourists	143	(18)
The Penrose Legacy	161	(18)
Julie Villiers Lewis McMillan Penrose	179	(20)
Continuing the Legacy	199	(24)
A New Beginning	223	(2)
William J. Hybl
El Pomar Trustees	225	(10)
Bibliography	235	(14)
Index	249