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There are many ways to learn more about women in Boulder County. The following Boulder County institutions and organizations have collections and materials that can expand your knowledge of women's stories. We invite you to visit them-in person or online.
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BOULDER PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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www.boulder.lib.co.us
100 Canyon Blvd., Boulder
303.441.3100
Parking at the Arapahoe Ave. entrance
M-Th 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
F-Sat 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
F-Sat 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sun 12 noon - 6 p.m.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER (CU)
University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) |
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www.cualum.org/heritage
100 Canyon Blvd., Boulder
303.492.6892
Parking at the Arapahoe Ave. entrance
M-F 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m. - 4 pm.
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Henderson Building, CU Boulder campus
cumuseum.colorado.edu/
303.492.6892
M-F 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m. - 4 pm.
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BOULDER HISTORY MUSEUM |
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www.boulderhistorymuseum.org/
1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder
303.449.3464
Parking at the Arapahoe Ave. entrance
T-F 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
S-S 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION |
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www.chautauqua.bouldernet.com
900 Baseline Rd. Bolder
303.442.3282
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LOUISVILLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM |
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www.ci.louisville.co.us/museum.htm
1001 Main St., Louisville
303.665.9048
T-Th 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
1st Sat. of the month 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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CAROLYN HOLMBERG PRESERVE/ROCK CREEK FARM |
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http://www.co.boulder.co.us/openspace/recreating/public_parks/rock_creek.htm
Parking on 104th St. south of Dillon Rd.
Junction 287 and Dillon Road, North of Broomfield
303.442.3282
Open from sunrise to sunset
Chautauqua Park
900 Baseline Rd., Boulder
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LAFAYETTE MINERS MUSEUM |
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www.cityoflafayette.com/parksrec/parkrecminers.cfm
108 E. Simpson St., Lafayette
303.665.7030
Th & Sat 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. or tours by appointment
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KANEMOTO PARK |
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www.ci.longmont.co.us/parks/park_list/overview/kanemoto.htm
Missouri and Quebec Ave., Longmont
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LONGMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/library/index.htm
409 4th St., Longmont
303.651.8470
M-Th 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
F-Sat 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sun 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER |
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www.co.boulder.co.us/openspace/resources/culhistory/ag_heritage.htm
8348 Ute Rd., Hwy. 66 west of Longmont
303.776.8848
Open mid-May - mid-October
W-Sun 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
1st Sat of every month 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Group guided tours year-round by appointment
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LYONS REDSTONE MUSEUM |
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No Web Site available
340 High St., Lyons
303.823.5271
Open June - Sept
M-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sun 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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HALL RANCH OPEN SPACE |
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www.co.boulder.co.us/openspace/recreating/public_parks/hall_ranch.htm
Hwy. 7, one mile west of Lyons
Open from sunrise to sunset
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PEAK-TO-PEAK HIGHWAY |
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www.peaknet.org/comm/towns/peakmap.html
This portion of the Peak-to-Peak Highway is Route 72 from south of Lyons to Nederland.
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NEDERLAND VISITORS CENTER |
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www.peaknet.org/webpages/nedvisitor
First Street at Hwy. 119, Nederland
May - October 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily
November - April 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. weekends
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BOULDER FALLS |
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www.ci.boulder.co.us/openspace/nature/scenery.htm#Boulder Falls
11 miles west of Boulder, north side of Boulder Canyon Dr. (Hwy. 119)
Open from sunrise to sunset
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GOLD HILL |
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No Web Site available
Steep unpaved roads
4WD or high clearance vehicle recommended
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The following books and articles provide additional ways to learn more about women's history in the West, environmental history, and women in Boulder County.
Selected Bibliography for "Revealing Our Routes": Women of Boulder County
Benson, Maxine. Martha Maxwell: Rocky Mountain Naturalist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Bird, Isabella. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. London: Virago Press, 1991.
Bixby, Amos. "History of Boulder County" in History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys. Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1880.
Bonta, Marcia Meyers. Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.
Boyles, Beralyn L. The St. Vrain Valley, Its Early History. Longmont, CO: The St. Vrain Valley Press, 1967.
Boyles, Beralyn L. Tales of St. Vrain Valley. Longmont, CO: The St. Vrain Valley Press, 1968.
Connaroe, Carolyn. Louisville Story. Louisville, CO: Louisville Times, Inc. 1978.
Dalziel, Hazel. Joyful Childhood Memories of a Pioneer Woman. Colorado Springs: Jack Dalziel and Kirby Dalziel Brach, 1988.
Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988.
Davis, William E. Glory Colorado! A History of the University of Colorado 1858-1963. Boulder, CO: Pruett Press, 1965.
De Baca, Vincent C., ed. La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1998.
Demos, John. The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization. Volume 1 in The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Ruiz, Vicki L., eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Dyni, Anne. Back to the Basics: The Frontier Schools of Boulder County, Colorado, 1860-1960. Boulder, CO: Book Lode, 1991.
Ewing, Vern. The Way It Was...And Is, The Story of the Ewing Family and their Historic Farmhouse. Boulder, CO: Book Lode, 1996.
Galey, Mary. The Grand Assembly: The Story of Life at the Colorado Chautauqua. Boulder, CO: First Flatiron Press, 1981.
Gladden, Sanford. Ladies of the Night. Early Boulder Series, No. 5 published by Sanford Gladden, 1979.
Gordon, Laurence M. Family, Class and Community in Ward, Colorado: 1880-1940. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado. Master's Thesis, 1984.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1995.
Hafen, LeRoy R. Broken Hand; the Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: Mountain Man, Guide, and Indian Agent. Denver: Old West Pub. Co., 1973.
Hudson, Suzanne. A History of Boulder's Parks and Recreation. City of Boulder, 1990.
Hutchison, James D. Lafayette, Colorado, History. Lafayette, CO: Lafayette Historical Society, 1989.
Kaufman, Ned. History Happened Here. New York: The Municipal Art Society of New York, November 1996.
Kaufman, Polly. National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: the Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Boulder, CO: Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
Knowlton, Lorna. Weaving Mountain Memories: Recollections of the Allenspark Area. Estes Park, CO: Estes Park Historical Museum, 1989.
Longmont Hispanic Study. We, Too, Came to Stay: A History of the Longmont Hispanic Community. Longmont, CO: The Longmont Hispanic Study and El Comité, 1988. Preliminary edition.
Limerick, Patricia N. "Disorientation and Reorientation: The American Landscape Discovered from the West" in The Journal of American History. December, 1992.
Matsumoto, Valerie J. and Blake Allmendinger, eds. Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
McLean, Polly. A Legacy of Missing Pieces: The Voices of Black Women of
Boulder County. Boulder, CO: The Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race
in America, University of COlorado at Boulder, 2002.
Meinig, D. W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Monnett, John H. and Michael McCarthy. Colorado Profiles. Evergreen, CO: Cordillera Press, 1987.
Montgomery, Mabel. A Story of Gold Hill, Colorado: Seventy-odd Years in the Heart of the Rockies. Privately published, 1930.
Newby, Betty Ann. The Longmont Album, History and Folklore of the St. Vrain Valley. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 1995.
Noel, Thomas J., and Dan W. Corson. Boulder County: An Illustrated History. Carlsbad, CA: Heritage Media, 1999.
Noel, Thomas J., and Richard E. Stevens, with Paul R. Mahoney. Historical Atlas of Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993, 2000.
Odell, Ruth. Helen Hunt Jackson. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939.
Parezo, Nancy J., ed. Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Passet, Joanne E. Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1994.
Pettem, Silvia. Boulder: Evolution of a City. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1994.
Pettem, Silvia. Chautauqua Centennial, Boulder, Colorado: A Hundred Years of Programs. Boulder, CO: Book Lode in cooperation with the Colorado Chautauqua Association, 1998.
Pettem, Silvia. Excursions from Peak to Peak Then and Now. Longmont, CO: Book Lode, 1997.
Pettem, Silvia. Guide to Historic Western Boulder County. Evergreen, CO: Cordillera Press, 1989.
Pettem, Silvia. Inn and Around Nederland: Accommodating the Traveler Then and Now. Boulder, CO: TARP, 1998.
Pettem, Silvia. Colorado Mountains & Passes: Day Trips in the Rockies. Frederick, CO: Renaissance House, 1991.
Pettem, Silvia. Separate Lives: The Story of Mary Rippon. Boulder, CO: Book Lode, 1999.
Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Riley, Glenda. Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History. Volume 2: Since 1877. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1995.
Robertson, Janet. The Magnificent Mountain Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Rogers, Maria M. In Other Words: Oral Histories of the Colorado Frontier. With an introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995.
Rossiter, Margaret. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Sampson, Joanna. Historic Walker Ranch. Western Orogeny Publishing, 1998.
Scharff, Virginia. "Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility, and Western Place" in Power and Place in the North American West, eds. Richard White and John M. Findlay. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 1999.
Schoolland, J.B. Boulder in Perspective: From Search for Gold to Gold of Research. Boulder, CO: J.B. Schoolland, 1980.
Sewall, Jane. Jane Dear Child. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1957.
Sherr, Lynn and Kazickas, Jurate. Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks. New York: Random House, 1976, 1994.
Simons, Roma. The Walker Ranch. Boulder, CO: Boulder Historical Society, 1981.
Smith, Phyllis. A Look at Boulder from Settlement to City. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., 1981.
Smith, Phyllis. Once a Coal Miner: The Story of Colorado's Northern Coal Field. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., 1989.
Trenton, Patricia, and Hassrick, Peter H. The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Trenton, Patricia, ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1995.
West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Topeka: University of Kansas Press, 1998.
Westermeier, Therese S. Mount Saint Gertrude, 1892-1969, Ave Atque Vale! Westermeier, 1969.
Westermeier, Therese S. Women, Too, at CU. Boulder, CO: CU Centennial Commission, 1976.
Wolle, Muriel Sibell. Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 1949.
Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department
gowest.coalliance.org/
Colorado Digitalization Project
coloradodigital.coalliance.org/
Boulder County GIS Maps
www.co.boulder.co.us/gis
Library of Congress "American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library"
memory.loc.gov/
Library of Congress "America's Story: Stories of America's Past"
www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
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