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ROLLINS PASS: IMAGES OF AMERICA (2018)

Rollins Pass: Images of America (2018)

Rollins Pass: Images of America by B. Travis Wright, MPS and Kate Wright, MBA with a foreword by professional archaeologist Jason M. LaBelle, PhD

This book received a 2018 Archaeology and Historic Preservation Award by the Boulder Heritage Roundtable and Historic Boulder.

ROLLINS PASS: POSTCARDS OF AMERICA (2018)

Rollins Pass: Postcards of America (2018)

Rollins Pass: Postcards of America by B. Travis Wright, MPS and Kate Wright, MBA

ROLLINS PASS: PAST & PRESENT (2022)

Rollins Pass: Past and Present (2022)

Rollins Pass: Past and Present by B. Travis Wright, MPS and Kate Wright, MBA

What’s the difference between your first book, Rollins Pass: Images of America (2018) and your second book, Rollins Pass: Past & Present (2022)?

While our two books cover the same core topics of Rollins Pass and the Moffat Tunnel, the 2022 book is not a republication of our 2018 work—in fact, there’s very little that’s duplicated between the two books. Our 2022 book discusses completely new details and information about Rollins Pass that transpired in the four years between publications. The 2022 work has never-before-published and extraordinarily rare imagery meticulously restored from the originals: all historic photographs are printed in black and white with modern counterparts in full color. While our first book involved two dozen people, our second book involved the efforts of more than six dozen experts to help tell this area’s vast story.

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Rollins Pass: Past & Present

Rollins Pass holds 12,000 years of history; Paleoindians utilized the pass 65 centuries before the invention of the wheel.

Later, wagon and rail magnates saw the pass as a “Great Gate” across the Continental Divide. Today, the area is listed as one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places.

B. Travis Wright, MPS, is a 2022 Colorado Preservation Inc. State Honor Award recipient for his advocacy of Rollins Pass. As historians and photographers, B. Travis Wright and Kate Wright, MBA, document the timeless landscapes atop Rollins Pass.

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2018 edition

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Rollins Pass: Images of America

The ribbon of dusty road on Rollins Pass has a timeless and beloved history. First known as Boulder Pass, this comparatively low saddle on the Continental Divide in Colorado has been in continuous use for millennia. First utilized as an expansive Native American game drive complex, the pass subsequently functioned as a toll wagon road in the 1860s.

At the turn of the 20th century, Rollins Pass became the highest standard-gauge adhesion railroad grade in North America—an achievement still standing today. However, this overmountain route, known as Corona Pass, was inefficient and dangerous: resolute men tasked with the impossible faced high elevations with even higher risks of injury or death.

A safer, permanent route came in 1928 by way of the Moffat Tunnel. The rails of Rollins Pass were then removed, freeing the automobile to tour the historic road. No matter the epoch, the legacy of Rollins Pass abides: a preeminently scenic route to the top of the world.

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Complete book set

Two signed paperbacks

Both Rollins Pass Publications

Together, these signed volumes follow Rollins Pass across 12,000 years, from Paleoindian use and expansive Native American game drive systems to the toll wagon road, the railroad over the Continental Divide, automobile travel, and today’s preservation challenges.

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Rollins Pass: Postcards of America

Two signed postcard packs.

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Complete collection

All Rollins Pass Publications

Two signed paperbacks and one signed postcard pack.

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Two signed copies of Rollins Pass: Images of America

Two-copy set

Two 2018 Signed Paperbacks

Two copies of Rollins Pass: Images of America.

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Two signed copies of Rollins Pass: Past and Present

Two-copy set

Two 2022 Signed Paperbacks

Two copies of Rollins Pass: Past & Present.