| By ANNA FULLER |
A Literary Courtship: Under the Auspices of |
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch Book By Anna Fuller AUTHOR OF "A LITERARY COURTSHIP" "PRATT PORTRAITS," ETC. Illustrated by Emma G. Moore New York and London G. P. Putnam's Sons |
Copyright, 1894 BY ANNA FULLER The Knickerbocker Press, New York |
TO ONE
TO WHOM I OWE
COLORADO
AND MUCH BESIDES
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
PREFACE.
[Pg v]The sketches of Colorado life which make up this volume are little morethan hints and suggestions caught from time to time by a single observerin a comparatively narrow field of observation. Narrow as the field is,however, it offers a somewhat unusual diversity of scene; for that mostcharming of health resorts known in these pages as Springtown, is thechance centre of many varying interests. In its immediate vicinityexists the life of the prairie ranch on the one hand and that of themining-camp on the other; while dominating all as it were—town,prairie, and mountain fastness—rises the great Peak which has now forso many years been the goal of pilgrimage to men and women from theEastern States in pursuit of health, of fortune, or of the free,open-air life of the prairie. If, from acquaintance with thesefict