Rambles in the Rocky Mountains

Item Details

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1864, Hardcover

First Edition, Very Good

An interesting account of a journey from St. Joseph to Denver and the Colorado gold fields over several months by Morris, an Irish author and sportsman.

Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Octavo. [viii] 264pp. With the embossed mark of James Grafton Rogers and bookplate of the Aspen Grove Collection that bears his name. Howes M831.

James Grafton Rogers (1883-1971) was a Denver attorney, educator, author, composer, and statesman. He was the organizer and first president of the Colorado Mountain Club. Rogers drafted a bill creating Rocky Mountain National Park. He was Dean of both the University of Denver (1927-28) and University of Colorado (1928-1931; 1933-35) law schools, and served as President of the Colorado Bar Association. Rogers took a two-year leave of absence to serve as Assistant Secretary of State (1931-1933) in Washington under President Herbert Hoover.