Colorado Fourth Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain

Item Details

Denver, Colorado, "Slaves of the Silver Serpent" / The Mountain and Plain Festival Association, Authentic Antique Original, circa 1890's, Saddle-Stitch / Staple Binding

Amazing Images!  

Dragon Queen...  rides a 3-Headed Monster for 19th Century Fraternal "Slaves of the Silver Serpent" Promotional Booklet for Event.
First edition.  Approx. 6 x 7.75 inches (opens to 6 x 15.5 inches), die cut, color, pictorial, stiff wrappers, 48 pages, full color plates on almost every page... featuring exotic parade floats celebrating the world's leading nations, ethnic & cultural pride, fairy & pagan superstitions, and the wonders of the Rocky Mountains and the Colorado plains.

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Incredible chromolithograph cover!  Front features a stunning long-haired dragon queen, as well as Patriotic American Flag, Mount of the Holy Cross inset, Elk, Farm, etc.  Back features a red-caped Court Jester riding an eagle.
Cover Display Condition is wonderful, as shown.  Some water damage inside as shown by high-resolution scanned pages (not every page could be shown, but the pages shown are representative). Please study the scans.

This 1800's event was launched and managed by an ad hoc Fraternal Society calling itself the "Slaves of the Silver Serpent."  The program includes many wonderful illustrations that I was not able to upload... some delightful pages are not shown!

Wikipedia:  "The Festival of Mountain and Plain was an annual celebration of pioneer days in the Old West held in early October in Denver from 1895 to 1899, and in 1901 with a final attempt at revival in 1912.  Organized by The Mountain and Plain Festival Association, the event featured a parade and rodeo. It continued until at least 1902. It was a regional celebration and drew pioneers from throughout the West, many of whom had participated in the events celebrated.William Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's first newspaper, was one of its promoters and directors. He originated many of its features: the bal champedre (outdoor ball), a great public masquerade ball held on Broadway; and the four great parades: first, a pageant of western history; second, a masked parade; and, on the third day "a military and social parade, ending with a sham battle at City Park, and in the evening the parade of the Slaves of the Silver Serpent."
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