ABOUT THIS BOOK

First published in 1966, Bayou Salado is an engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Now known as South Park, Bayou Salado once attracted Ute and Arapaho hunters as well as European and American explorers and trappers. Virginia McConnell Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents - such as Father Dyer, the skiing Methodist minister-mailman, and Silver Heels, the dancer who lost her legendary beauty while tending to the ill during a small pox epidemic - bring the valley's storied past to life.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Virginia McConnell Simmons is the author of The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (UPC) and The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross (UPC), as well as hundreds of articles for journals, magazines, and newspapers.

REVIEWS

"South Park is as interesting a sample of western American history as you can find anywhere. And this is as interesting a book about South Park as you can find."
—True West

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

I.
The Virgin Land

II.
The Indian Hunting Ground

III.
The Ancient Quests in a New Land

IV.
Mining: 1859-1860

V.
Mining: 1861-1870

VI.
“In the Hands of Hard Men in an Evil Hour”

VII.
Mining: 1871 to the Present

VIII.
A Half Century of Railroading

IX.
The Salt Works

X.
The Bountiful Ranch Land

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

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