Enterprise & Innovation in the Pikes Peak Region

Enterprise & Innovationin the Pikes Peak Region......Page 1
Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium......Page 4
Regional History Series......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 9
FOREWORD......Page 11
About Pikes Peak Library District......Page 13
About Dream CityVision 2020......Page 14
El Paso County Inventors & their 19th–Century Patents......Page 25
Transits, Timbers, & Tunnels: The Legacy of Colorado Inventor David W. Brunton......Page 75
The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires......Page 115
Bumps in the Road: The Spirit of Enterprise & the Sociability Tour of 1914......Page 125
The Quest for the Best: William Jackson Palmer1836–1909......Page 159
Aeronautics & Astronautics: Pioneering Air & Space Business in the Pikes Peak Region......Page 175
Hustling the Tourists: Early Automobile Sightseeing in the Pikes Peak Region......Page 223
The Hassell Iron Works......Page 239
Science as Enterprise & Industry: The Monument Valley Park “Geological Section” in Context......Page 253
From Prize-Fights to Shakespeare: Traveling Entertainers in thePikes Peak Region......Page 269
Mining for Interest in the First National Bank of Cripple Creek Collection......Page 279
Chasing the American Dream: Fannie Mae Duncan & the Cotton Club......Page 307
Ballroom & the Barn: Dr. Lloyd Shaw, Dean Edwards & the Western Square Dance Revival in Colorado Springs......Page 347
Marketing a Messiah: Denver’s Divine Healer & His Inspiration of Entrepreneurs......Page 369
Selected Bibliography of Materials in Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District......Page 407
INDEX......Page 415