Colorado

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Even when death struck suddenly, the starry-eyed Indian agent was still dreaming of turning his Ute wards into white men overnight.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Surrounded, starving, far from help, Major Forsyth and his gallant little band of scouts prepared to face wave after wave of Indians.</span> </p>

<p>A tiny, ailing, middle-aged Victorian lady and an alcoholic, one-eyed mountain man are a couple far too unlikely for fiction. But just such a pair met, and fell in love, and suffered in Estes Park, Colorado, in 1873. Isabella Lucy Bird, our improbable heroine, became a prolific and popular travel writer as well as an intrepid tourist, and her journeys resulted in many books, some of which are still being reprinted. This story of her Colorado romance is from A Gallery of Dudes, to be published soon by Little, Brown.</p>

<p>The wrecker’s ball swings in every city in the land, and memorable edifices of all kinds are coming down at a steady clip.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Henry Morion Stanley, who later found Dr. Livingstone, reports the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, October, 1867</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> U-Boom on the Colorado Plateau</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">An astonishing saga of endurance and high courage told by a man who lived through it</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An Art Deco masterpiece struggles to survive</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Americans invented the grand hotel in the 1830s, and, during the next century, brought it to a zenith of democratic luxury that makes a visit to the surviving examples the most agreeable of historic pilgrimages.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the mountains of Colorado, a mining town finds new fortunes in its quiet, historic character.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">People visit the Grand Canyon for scenery, not architecture. But an assortment of buildings there, infused with history and the sensibility of one strong woman, are worth a long look.</span></p>

<p>Even Oscar Wilde visited the Colorado town in 1882, and gave a lecture to enraptured miners on Cellini and Shakespeare.</p>

<p>A festival celebrates the history of this town in the Colorado Rockies.</p>