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

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1.1. Estes Park in 1915. Map by Fred Clatworthy 8 1.2. Rocky Mountain National Park dedication, September 4, 1915 9 1.3. Rocky Mountain National Park dedication. Left to right: publicist Robert Sterling Yard, Enos Mills, F. O. Stanley, Colorado representative Edward Taylor, park booster Mary Belle King Sherman, and Colorado governor George Carlson 12 1.4. The Corners (Elkhorn and Moraine), Estes Park, 1903. Community building and John Cleave house in foreground; post office across the street 19 1.5. The Corners in summer, ca. 1903 19 1.6. Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: Lodges and Resorts, ca. 1940 21 2.1. Abner Sprague’s plat of the Town of Estes Park, dated January 1906 24 2.2. Cornelius H. Bond 26 2.3. Fred Clatworthy’s Ye Little Shop, ca. 1910 29 2.4. Original Hupp Hotel (renamed Estes Park Hotel), ca. 1913 31 2.5. Josephine (Josie) Hupp 32 Figures
ix x Figures 2.6. First issue of The Mountaineer, Estes Park’s first newspaper, June 4, 1908 36 2.7. Manford Hotel, ca. 1910 37 2.8. Estes Park, 1908 39 2.9. Estes Park, ca. 1910 39 2.10. 1919 Panoramic Photograph of Estes Park 40, 42–45 2.11. Estes Park Post Office, built in 1914 46 2.12. Ralph Macdonald’s Steam Laundry 47 2.13. J. Edward Macdonald’s “Popular Shop,” ca. 1910 48 2.14. J. Edward Macdonald’s new store and adjacent home, ca. 1914 49 2.15. Monroe’s Livery (later Hupp Livery), upper Elkhorn, ca. 1910 51 3.1. Reconstructing the North St. Vrain Road, 1907 57 3.2. The Stanley Hotel, ca. 1915 59 3.3. Estes Park Transportation Company depot and offices on Elkhorn Avenue, ca. 1915 66 3.4. Stanley Steamers at the railroad station in Lyons, ca. 1915 67 3.5. Taking the Stanley Mountain Wagon to Estes Park 68 3.6. F. O. Stanley during the 1930s, with Byron Hall on left and his niece, Dorothy Emmons on right 86 4.1. Reunion Dinner at community building, ca. 1903 91 4.2. Estes Park Fish Hatchery, ca. 1910 96 4.3. “Sunbeam” 99 4.4. Bringing the elk up from Lyons, 1913 102 5.1. Park supervisor Charles Russell Trowbridge, 1915–1916 120 5.2. Dixie MacCracken, first park ranger, on the Fern Lake Trail 127 5.3. Chief ranger in charge and superintendent Lewis Claude Way, 1916–1921 129 5.4. Rocky Mountain National Park, first administrative office in Estes Park village, July 27, 1923 130 5.5. Automobile on Fall River Road 137 5.6. Camping at Aspenglen Campground 139 5.7. Tourists on the trail 142 6.1. Advertising Estes Park. Burlington Railroad brochure, 1913 149 6.2. Advertising Estes Park. Float on Stanley Mountain Wagon, ca. 1915. Byron Hall on running board, Enos Mills in passenger seat 150 6.3. The “Eve of Estes,” shaking hands with Enos Mills; Superintendent Way stands at left 153 6.4. Colorado Mountain Club at Fern Lake 163 6.5. Winter skiing at Elkhorn ski course on Oldman Mountain 173 xi Figures 6.6. Summer ski festival on Oldman Mountain, June 24, 1934 176 7.1. Enos A. Mills, ca. 1920 180 7.2. Map showing Roe Emery’s “Circle Tour” beginning and ending in Denver, 1922. Published by Union Pacific Railroad 187 7.3. Coded telegram to Superintendent Way, August 18, 1919. “Infidel” refers to Enos Mills 194 7.4. Clem Yore 197 8.1. Superintendent Roger Wescott Toll, 1921–1929 210 8.2. New RMNP administration building, September 25, 1924 220 8.3. Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company garage and offices on Elkhorn Avenue, 1924 221 8.4. First transportation company bus being hauled through the Big Drift on Fall River Road, June 20, 1923 223 8.5. Steam shovel handling twenty cubic feet of snow on the Big Drift, June 9, 1927 224 8.6. Colorado Mountain Club at Boulderfield Shelter Cabin, July 31, 1927 230 8.7. Early Cheley camp brochure 244 8.8. Olinger Highlanders at Glacier Basin, July 1, 1927 247 9.1. Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park in 1927. Map by Richardson Rome 252 9.2. Sanborn Map of 1926. Upper Elkhorn Avenue to Moraine Avenue 255 9.3. Sanborn Map of 1926. Middle Elkhorn Avenue, from Moraine Avenue to Riverside 256 9.4. Sanborn Map of 1926...