Rollins Pass: Postcards of America (2018)
Rollins Pass: Postcards of America by B. Travis Wright, MPS and Kate Wright, MBA
Rollins Pass: Postcards of America by B. Travis Wright, MPS and Kate Wright, MBA
15 Postcards | 15 Images | Dimensions: 4.25 × 0.25 × 5.75 inches | Publisher: Arcadia Publishing | Publication Date: May 14, 2018 | Series: Postcards of America | Publisher List Price: $7.99 | Signed Postcard Pack from Preserve Rollins Pass: $8 | Postcard Pack ISBN-13: 978-1-4671-2905-3
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This collection of mailable vintage-photograph postcards showcases the timeless and beloved history of Rollins Pass. 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS (BACK COVER)
B. Travis Wright, MPS, and Kate Wright, MBA, volunteer on Rollins Pass as apprentice archaeologists for Colorado State University and for the US Forest Service. Their collaboration with multidisciplinary experts helps bring to life a mountain of pictorial treasures, many of which are published within for the first time.
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Explore the long history of Rollins Pass through two illustrated volumes written by B. Travis Wright, MPS, and Kate Wright, MBA.
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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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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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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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