Colorado Pioneers in Picture and Story

This Illustrated Book Was Published In 1915.. Preface . In Presenting This Revised Edition Of My Book Entitled Tales Of The Colorado Pioneers I Have Given It The Title Of Colorado Pioneers In Picture And Story. . It Has Been My Effort To Weave Around A Thread Of History The Legends Traditions And Reminiscences Of The Pioneers Which Accentuate The Great Phases In The Development Of Colorado From Its Earliest History To The Time It Became A State In 1876. . Ever Since I Journeyed Into Denver In A Pullman Car In 1872 I Have Been Interested In The People Who * Blazed The Way. I Have Listened To Their Tales Of How They Won The West And Have Found In The Real Incidents In The Lives Of Real People A Charm To Which Fiction Can Never Attain. . The Labor Of The Pioneers Involved The Highest Type Of Moral As Well As Physical Courage And By Placing Their Brave Deeds In An Historical Setting I Hope To Preserve Their Intensely Interesting Human Side And Show How The Isolated Setdement In A Dreary Desert Found Its Way Into The Sisterhood Of States. . My First Book Had A Favorable Reception. Its Success En- Couraged Me To Write This Larger Work In Which Most Of The Earlier Features Are Included. . I Have Given Facts About People Some Tinged With Humor Some Filled With Pathos; I Have Given Incidents Relating To The Organized Beginnings Of Denver In 1858-'59-'60 So That My Readers May Understand The Dangers And Difficulties The Pioneers Had To Meet And Overcome In Order To Carve A State Out Of The Wilderness And Establish Good Government. . The Last Part Of The Book Is Devoted To The Pioneer State Builders Of Today. I Make No Attempt To Treat In Detail The Recent Phases Of Our Social Political And Industrial History But Merely Emphasize The Factors In Our Development Which Appeal To Me As Most Vital From The Standpoint Of Today. . Alice Polk Hill. . .