America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

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387 Notes Notes  CHAPTER 1 1. Fort Collins Express, 42 (September 5, 1915): 1; Loveland Daily Herald, 6 (September 6, 1915): 1. The estimates varied considerably. F. O. Stanley suggested 500; local resort manager Charles Lester “thought there were nearer 700.” Longmont Ledger, 36 (September 10, 1915): 4. 2. Denver Times, 45 (September 4, 1915): 1. 3. Quoted in Robert Shankland, Steve Mather of the National Parks (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), 79. 4. Fort Collins Weekly Courier, 37 (September 3, 1915): 5. 5. For studies about the impact of automobile transportation on tourism in general and within of national parks in particular see, for example, Warren Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910–1945 (Boston: MIT Press, 1979); John Jakle, The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 101–170; Hal K. Rothman, Devil’s Bargains, Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998), 50–112; David Louter, “Glaciers and Gasoline: The Making of a Windshield Wilderness,” Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, David W. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long, eds. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001), 248–270. 6. Denver Times, 45 (September 3, 1915): 1. 7. Loveland Reporter, 36 (September 6, 1915): 1. 8. Ibid. 387 388 Notes 9. Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck, Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 96. This should not be confused with The Birth of the National Park Service, cited in Chapter 3, note 88. 10. Longmont Ledger, 36 (September 10, 1915): 4. 11. Fort Collins Weekly Courier, 37 (September 10, 1915): 5. 12. Longmont Ledger, 36 (September 10, 1915): 4. 13. Estes Park Trail, 1 (June 15, 1912): 4. 14. Rocky Mountain News, 5 (September 23, 1868): 2. 15. Abner E. Sprague, “My First Visit to Estes Park,” (typescript, Colorado Historical Society), 4. 16. Ibid., 5. 17. Larimer Press, as subsequently published in the Greeley Tribune, 3 (August 27, 1873): 2. 18. Abstract, Estes Park Company, Limited, Articles of Incorporation, August 17, 1876, Larimer County Abstract Company, Estes Park Museum (hereafter EPM). 19. Estes Park Trail, 18 (April 22, 1938): 28. 20. Information on most of the resorts listed here, including those built between 1905 and 1915 may be found in my earlier book, “This Blue Hollow”: Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859–1915 (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999). See also Henry F. Pedersen Jr., Those Castles of Wood: The Story of Early Lodges of Rocky Mountain National Park . . . (Estes Park, CO: Henry F. Pedersen Jr., 1993). CHAPTER 2 1. Lyons Recorder, 5 (April 13, 1905): 1. This article cites April 20 as the date on which “possession is to be given.” 2. The problem that Bond and his partners did not anticipate was John Cleave’s lack of clear title. Working through Dunraven’s Denver lawyer, Frank Prestige, Bond made two trips to England and reportedly spent some $3,000 to work out the arrangements that in late May finally gave him ownership. Loveland Register, 11 (May 31, 1905): 1. 3. Flora Stanley, “A Tenderfoot’s First Summer in the Rockies,” Stanley Museum Quarterly, 16 (June 1997): 15. The original manuscript is in the Frank Normali Collection, Stanley Historic Foundation, Estes Park (hereafter SHF). 4. Longmont Ledger, 16 (January 27, 1905): 1. 5. Loveland Register, 11 (March 29, 1905): 1. 6. Loveland Reporter, 26 (April 6, 1905): 10. 7. Ibid., 26 (July 6, 1905): 8. 8. Quoted in William Wyckoff, Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western Landscape, 1860–1940 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 61. 9. Mountaineer (August 6, 1908): 6. 10. Longmont Ledger, 16 (June 2, 1905): 1. The Ledger cites the Denver Republican as its source. See also Loveland Register, 11 (May 31, 1905): 1. 11. Fred Payne Clatworthy, “Pioneer Business Men Made Estes Park History,” Estes Park Trail, 23 (April 23, 1943): 36. 389 Notes 12. Loveland Reporter, 26 (September 28, 1905): 13. 13. Ibid., 28 (June 27, 1907): 1. Unfortunately, as is the case of a number of the early businesswomen of Estes Park, we know all too little about the enterprising Josie Hupp (1857–1932), who at one time owned four downtown hotels: the Hupp, the Manford, the Josephine, and the Sherwood. Born in Michigan, she came to Loveland as the bride of August Blinn in 1877, where she operated a...