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The magnificent mountain women : adventures in the Colorado Rockies / Janet Robertson ; introduction to the new Bison books edition by Arlene Blum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Janet, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women mountaineers--Colorado--Biography.
- Women mountaineers.
- Women--Colorado--Biography.
- Women.
- Rocky Mountains--Guidebooks.
- Rocky Mountains.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, England : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- "Bison books"--Spine.
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [193]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496206312
- 1496206312
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