The Magnificent Mountain Women

by Robertson, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780803289956
• ISBN10: 0803289952
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the midnineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title,The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition. A professional photographer and writer whose work has appeared in many magazines, Janet Robertson lives in Boulder, Colorado. She has climbed all fifty-four of Colorado's peaks topping fourteen thousand feet and has hiked the length of the Colorado Trail. Arlene Blum has played a leading role in more than twenty successful mountaineering expeditions, including the first American climb of Annapurna. She is the author ofAnnapurna: A Woman's Place.

Author Biography

A professional photographer and writer whose work has appeared in many magazines, Janet Robertson lives in Boulder, Colorado. She has climbed all fifty-four of Colorado’s peaks topping fourteen thousand feet and has hiked the length of the Colorado Trail. Arlene Blum has played a leading role in more than twenty successful mountaineering expeditions, including the first American climb of Annapurna. She is the author of Annapurna: A Woman’s Place.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Colorado Mountain Women
The First Female Mountain Climbers, 1858-1906	p. 1
Outdoor Sportswomen, 1915-1935	p. 24
The Women's Park: Virginia Donaghe McClurg and Lucy Peabody	p. 61
The Mountains: A Refuge	p. 73
The Gutsy Lady Botanists	p. 100
The Modern Recreationists	p. 143
Epilogue	p. 179
Glossary	p. 191
Sources and Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 209
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