| Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park Revised Edition Contributor(s): Simmons, Virginia McConnell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870816705 ISBN-13: 9780870816703 Publisher: University Press of Colorado OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: An engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents bring the valley's storied past to life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978.859 |
| LCCN: 2002018119 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.44" (0.70 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Colorado |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1966, Bayou Salado is an engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Now known as South Park, Bayou Salado once attracted Ute and Arapaho hunters as well as European and American explorers and trappers. Virginia McConnell Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents - such as Father Dyer, the skiing Methodist minister-mailman, and Silver Heels, the dancer who lost her legendary beauty while tending to the ill during a small pox epidemic - bring the valley's storied past to life. |