Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park, Revised Edition
Current price:
$22.95
Publication Date: May 15th, 2002
Publisher:
University Press of Colorado
ISBN:
9780870816703
Pages:
280
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.
Praise for Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park, Revised Edition
"South Park is as interesting a sample of western American history as you can find anywhere. And this is as interesting a book about South Park as you can find."
—True West