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by Janet Robertson, introduction by Arlene Blum
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 Roberston recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women.