The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies

by Janet Robertson

Book Overview

Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238924
• ISBN13: 9780803238923
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Undaunted Women

I was given this book as a gift about ten years ago. I have camped and backpacked in the Colorado Rockies many times and loved reading about its early pioneer days. Each story is carefully researched and presented. Many of the women encountered harsh resistance as they tried to homestead or pursue their varied outdoor interests, but, the overall theme for the stories is how courageous and strong the women were. I loved this book and although, I give away most of the books I buy, this one I keep close at hand.

This book is wonderful!

Read it before you go the the Rocky Mountains. Then have fun exploring the places that are described. These women are awesome and I would love to meet the author, Janet Robertson.