A Bumpy Ride

Burke, Marril Lee

ISBN 10: 1932738304 / ISBN 13: 9781932738308

Published by Western Reflections, Lake City, 2007

About this Item

SUBTITLED : ` A History of Stagecoaching in Colorado '. Laurie Goralka did the design work on this 202 page - with INDEX - volume. Read more about : Sister Blandina Segale, Piedra River, Pacific Overland, Abner E. Sprague, Bent's Old Fort, robbery, Telluride, Circle Route, and Chauncey Mills. Text accompanied by b/w drawings, photographs and maps. Cond : Paper wrapper is black with yellow lettering. cover illustration shows a stage on a hairpin turn in the mountains. Cover flies open. light edge wear. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Clean and bright, Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 95) : " In a stage built for four passengers, and in which six could be seated by crowding, eight had to ride. Two gentlemen managed, with the aid of two small boxes, to sit between ._.-._. .' Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bumpy Ride
• Publisher: Western Reflections, Lake City
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932738304
• ISBN 13: 9781932738308
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B/W Photographs
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - the States

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Synopsis

By the late 1860s stagecoaches were a new and exciting way to travel in Colorado. Hardly a Colorado town or mining camp could be found where stagecoach wheels had not left their tracks. In the winter wheels were often exchanged for runners so that the coach could travel through deep Colorado snow. We can only imagine what it was really like to travel hundreds of miles in a swaying stagecoach with hard, wooden benches for seats, often with only fifteen inches of space to yourself. Stage passengers often encountered rainstorms, wind, thunder and lightning, mud, snow, and rockslides, all with only a thin piece of canvas to protect them from inclement weather. But this was the premier way to travel. Passengers often overlooked the hardships and only remembered the speed, the beauty, and the excitement of a Colorado stagecoach trip.

About the Author

Born in Iowa, Marril Lee Burke has lived most of her "grown-up" years in Colorado, owning and operating a small ski resort, raising seven children, becoming a Master Gardener, writing a column for the local Montrose, Colorado newspaper, and taking inspiration for her first book from an old stagecoach route that wound through a ranch she has owned since 1971 near the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River. "Stagecoaching," says Marril Lee, " is a somewhat untouched era of U.S. history, relatively ignored by writers to date." In her book, Mrs. Burke captures the feel of the time when stagecoaches connected the remote towns of Colorado.