While on the Dominguez-Escalante expedition in 1776, Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco drew the first map of Colorado.
Book Reviews - Tourism
There are thousands of Arcadia Images of America, some poorly done and others nothing more than mediocre. This book, however, is a shining star and presents in pictorial form a balanced history of Loveland, Colorado. Well organized chronologically, it covers events leading up to the...
Like Yellowstone National Park and the rest of the West, late-nineteenth-century tourists were initially drawn to “wonders” and “scenic attractions.” Tourists carried carved hiking sticks but no requisite clothing. They wanted to experience the West, to “see the elephant,” and they did so from...
Imagine a book filled with over one thousand historic images so compelling that is almost impossible to put down. Shared Moments consists of postcards from the extensive collection of Bobbie Heisterkamp. James H. Pickering, Estes Park Historian Laureate—an honorary position created by the...
Every five years or so a new coffee table folio makes its debut with splashy color photos of the Mile High City, accompanied by pages of booster prose but otherwise devoid of any real substance. Happily the latest venture into this genre, Mile High Tourism: Denver's Convention and Visitor...
Southeast Colorado Heritage Tourism Report is the final product of a University of Colorado Denver (UCD project conducted by Dr. Rudi Hartmann, a senior instructor in the university’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. Hartmann’s areas of interest include cultural geography,...
Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and New York Sun newspaper journalist, made a railroad trip to the West in 1873. It proved not to be a rapid journey. A leisurely six months passed as he went from Kansas to California. Along the way, he sent back newsy reports of what he...