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Nothing Daunted

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by Wickenden, Dorothy


  “Summary of the Work of the United States Geological Survey.” Rocky Mountain News, November 29, 1874.

  “Surviving the Ute Massacre.” New York Times, October 29, 1879.

  Baker, William J. “Brown’s Bluff.” Empire Magazine, December 28, 1958.

  Curtis, Olga. Two-part series: “Farrington R. Carpenter: The Success Story of a ‘Failure’ ” and “ ‘Yarnin’ Champ of Yampa Valley.” Empire Magazine, April 11 and April 18, 1965.

  Dunham, David. “When the Outlaws Gathered for Thanksgiving.” Empire Magazine, November 20, 1977.

  Fleming, Roscoe. “A Word Picture of the New Director of Revenue.” Steamboat Pilot, July 31, 1941.

  Giannini, Bern. “Richard Pleasant, from Humble Beginnings a Yampa Valley Country Boy Conquered the World.” Steamboat Magazine, Summer/Fall 1990.

  Goff, Dick. “Ferry Carpenter, Cattleman-Citizen.” Ideal Beef Memo, November 5, 1979.

  Gower, Calvin W. “The Pike’s Peak Gold Rush and the Smoky Hill Route, 1859–1860.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 25, no. 2 (Summer 1959).

  Hubbard, George H. “Butting Heads: Farrington Carpenter’s Dramatic Role in the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934.” Colorado Heritage, May/June 2010.

  Jowitt, Deborah. “Saving Perry-Mansfield.” Dance Magazine, January 1992.

  McCormick, Robert. “Capitol Cowboy.” Collier’s, March 5, 1938.

  McGraw, Pat. “Farrington Carpenter, Hayden Rancher, Storyteller, Dead at 94.” Denver Post, December 16, 1980.

  Paolucci, Christina. “Honoring Juilliard’s Ties to America’s Oldest Performing Arts Camp.” The Juilliard Journal Online XIX, no. 7 (April 2004).

  Perry, Robert M. “Perry Tells Jury Details of Kidnaping in Mountains.” Rocky Mountain News, October 9, 1916.

  Wilson, Woodrow. “What Is a College For?” Scribner’s Magazine, November 1909.

  Wren, Jean. “The Gypsy Life & Loves of Marjorie Perry.” Steamboat Magazine, Winter/Spring 1991.

  ORAL HISTORIES, SPEECHES, AND INTERVIEWS

  Carpenter, Farrington. “Memories of Isadore Bolton and Yampa Valley Pioneers.” Interview by Herbert P. White, July 11, 1970. C MSS OH 52. Western History Collection, Denver Public Library.

  ———. Interview by Vi Ward, May 21, 1959. Discussions of J. B. Dawson, David Moffat, Carpenter’s homestead claim, and other subjects. OH 42. Colorado Historical Society.

  ———. Oral History. Reminiscences of life in Hayden. June 29, 1977. C MSS OH132-6. Western History Collection, Denver Public Library.

  ———. Oral History. Memories of boyhood and youth in New Mexico, homesteading in Colorado, early law practice, sheep wars. January 9, 1964. C MSS OH51. Western History Collection, Denver Public Library.

  ———. Interview by E. S. W. Kerr. “Quadrangle Plan,” June 18, 1967. Woodrow Wilson Collection, 1837–1986, Box 62, Folder 17, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

  ———. “Historical Interview, Farrington R. Carpenter, Director, Grazing Service, Department of the Interior.” Interview by Jerry A. O’Callaghan, Bureau of Land Management, about the Taylor Grazing Act, July 9, 1981.

  ———. “The Adventures of a Tenderfoot, Reminiscences of Farrington Carpenter.” Speech at the Denver Public Library, January 9, 1964. Cassette & NO.OH51. Western History Collection, Denver Public Library.

  ———. Speech at Colorado State University, accepting the Stockman of the Year Award, February 1967. Tread of Pioneers Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO.

  Carpenter, Rosamond Underwood. Interview by Eleanor Bliss about her year at Elkhead. Oral History Recordings. Disc 2, L 1457.2. Tread of Pioneers Museum.

  Todd, Earnest. Interview by Paul Bonnifield about Bob Perry, for whom Todd worked as a bodyguard after Bob was kidnapped. April 6, 1978.

  UNPUBLISHED PAPERS, MEMOIRS, AND PAMPHLETS

  Bonnifield, Paul. “Oak Creek: The Town with Character, Resolve, and Magnanimity,” Town Album: Photo History of Oak Creek, Colorado, 1907–. Diamond Jubilee Special Booklet, June 1967.

  Carpenter, Farrington. Letters to Frederick Jackson Turner: October 13, 1913; October 6, 1922; July 8, 1925. TU Box 31A (20). Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA.

  ———. Letters to Henry Bragdon: undated, and November 26, 29, 30, December 3, 11, 1967. Woodrow Wilson Collection, 1837–1986, Box 62, Folder 17, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

  ———. “Woodrow Wilson As I Knew Him.” October 4, 1973. Woodrow Wilson Collection, Princeton University.

  “Commencement Dinner, ElkHead School.” May 22, 1910.

  “Commencement Exercises of Elk Head High School.” May 22, 1910.

  Harrison, Lewis. “Sketch of the Life of Uriah Franklin Harrison and Mary Virginia Jones Harrison of Northwest Colorado.” 1977. Hayden Heritage Center, Hayden, CO.

  Homestead Application No. 2442, Farrington R. Carpenter, Land Office at Hayden, Routt Co., CO, August 10, 1907; Homestead Entry Final Proof, Department of the Interior, U.S. Land Office, Glenwood Springs, CO, No. 01885, August 14, 1914; Homestead Certificate, Department of the Interior, U.S. Land Office, Glenwood Springs, CO, March 20, 1920.

  “In Memory of Rosamond Underwood Carpenter: Story of a Pioneer Teacher in the Rocky Mountains.” Memorial booklet for Rosamond’s service, the Congregational United Church of Christ, Hayden, CO, February 7, 1974.

  Mahaney, Leah Mae Carnine. Memories: Autobiography, 1896–.

  Manahna. Elkhead School Yearbook, 1920.

  “Map of the Elkhead School District,” Routt County, CO. Prepared by P. C. Carson, civil engineer.

  Neilson, William Allan. “Smith College: The First Seventy Years,” Smith College Archives. Unpublished typescript.

  “$1000 FOR KIDNAPPER.” Poster announcing “reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Greek who was a party to the kidnapping of Robert Perry.” October 8, 1916.

  Perry, Ruth Brown. “The Abundant Life.” 2006.

  ———. “The Abundant Life, Book II.” 2006.

  ———. “Moffat Coal Co. 1906–1940s.” 2009.

  “A Recollection of Martha Coffin Wright by her Daughter Eliza Wright Osborne.” Osborne Family Papers. Syracuse University Libraries, Manuscripts Department.

  Scales, Laura Lord; Margaret Townsend O’Brien; Elsie Baskin Adams; Mary Mensel. “White Lodge.” Building Files Collection, Box 113, Folder 15. Smith College Archives.

  Seelye, Rev. L. Clark. “The Need of a Collegiate Education for Woman.” Paper presented for the American Institute of Instruction at North Adams, July 28, 1874.

  Wekerle, Ingrid Matson. “Charlotte L. Perry, In Loving Memory.” December 21, 1889–October 28, 1983. Tread of Pioneers Museum.

  Wilson, Woodrow. “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” Inaugural Address as president of Princeton University, 1902.

  Zars, Margarethe Belle. “A Study of a Western Rural School District: Elkhead 1900–1921.” Thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University, 1986.

  DOCUMENTARY

  Aitken, Leonard. “A Divine Madness.” Co-produced by Candice Carpenter, Oak Creek Films. Made possible by the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Residents of Steamboat Springs, 1979.

  INDEX

  abolitionism, 20, 65

  Adair, Everette, 135, 163, 170, 179

  Adair, John, 100, 135

  Adair ranch, 100, 108, 125, 193, 218

  Adair school, 110

  Addams, Jane, 36, 80

  Alcott, Louisa May, 175

  American Ballet Theatre, 225

  Amherst College, 37

  Anderson, Susan, 96

  André, Édouard, 68

  Anthony, Susan B., 22, 96–97

  Argo, J. J., 93, 94

  Army/Cavalry, U.S., 33, 34, 85, 156

  Auburn, New York, ix, xiv, 5–6, 53�
��55, 79, 97, 202, 207

  Burtis Opera House, 18, 60

  Button Works, 5, 181, 219

  First Baptist Church, 174

  Fort Hill Cemetery, 24, 25, 67, 140

  Logan silk mills, 5

  Owasco Lake as popular retreat, 20

  St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 111

  state prison in, x–xi, 16, 22–24

  Theological Seminary, 80

  Underground Railroad in, xi, 20

  Austria, 115

  automobiles, 12, 40–41, 61, 74, 133

  Bakst, Léon, 59

  Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 225

  Ballets Russes, 59–60, 66

  Barrymore, Ethel, 26

  Bassett, Josie, 102

  Bassett, “Queen Ann,” 102

  Beardsley, Alonzo (grandfather of Dorothy), 17

  Beardsley, Anna Porter (grandmother of Dorothy), 16, 24

  Beardsley, Cora, 67

  Beardsley, Josephine. See Brown, Josephine Beardsley (cousin of Dorothy)

  Beardsley, Nelson (great-uncle of Dorothy), 17, 18

  Beardsley, William, 67

  Beardsley family, 16–17, 21

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 37

  Bell, Sam, 152

  Berenson, Bernard, 130

  Berenson, Senda, 130

  Blackmore, William, 31

  blacks (African-Americans), xii–xiii, 18–19, 37

  coal miners, 152

  Company D, Ninth Cavalry, 33

  Underground Railroad in Auburn and, 20

  Blue, Daniel, 11

  Bolten, Isadore, 138, 193, 218–19

  Bonnifield, Paul, 152, 156

  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, The, 194

  Boy Scouts, 183, 200, 201

  Bragdon, Henry, 46, 73

  Braque, Georges, 62

  Brookfield, Mrs. (cousin of Ros), 55, 56

  brothels, 152

  Brown, Clement, 67–68

  Brown, Henry C., 11

  Brown, Josephine Beardsley (cousin of Dorothy), 61, 66–68

  Brown, William, 25

  Bruin, Miss (kindergarten teacher), 14

  Bryan, William Jennings, 46

  buffalo, 178

  Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 48

  Byers, William, 9–10, 91

  Cage, John, 224

  California Park, 143

  Callaway, Emily, 81

  Camp Fire Girls, 201–2

  Carpenter, Farrington (Ferry), x, 4–7, 13, 28, 29, 71, 72–78, 92, 110–11, 118, 122, 128, 134, 134–37, 139, 171, 183, 195, 200–201, 212, 215, 216, 220, 221

  Bolten and, 193

  education standards and, 191, 208

  in FDR administration, 217–18

  at Harvard Law School, 52, 73, 150

  homestead in Colorado, 51–52, 101, 135

  interest in American West, 47–50

  marriage to Ros, 221–22

  Perry kidnapping and, 167

  plan to bring women to Elkhead and, 75–78, 84, 85

  at Princeton University, 45–47

  as rancher, 72–73, 74, 216–17, 221

  Rocky Mountain Dancing Club and, 129

  Turner and, 73–75, 225

  Wilson and, 46–48, 177, 178

  in World War I, 209

  Carpenter, Ruth, 77

  Carpenter, Willis, 221

  Cassidy, Butch, 102

  cattlemen, 73

  Cayuga County Political Equality Club, 80

  Cayuga tribe, 24–25

  Chambers, Mrs., 96

  Chesterton, G. K., 56

  Chicago, xiii, 6, 206

  Great Fire (1871), 153

  Hull House, 36, 80, 130, 138, 175

  railroad station, 7

  Civil War, xii, 11, 17, 20, 25, 48

  clothes/fashion, 41, 54, 59, 66, 86, 87, 126

  bathing costumes, 21

  donations for Colorado students, 174

  in Paris, 60, 65, 66

  coal mining, xii, 92, 110, 211

  accidents, 155

  deposits in Elkhead, 110, 220

  Moffat mine, 149–52

  strikes by workers, 155–57

  wagon mines, 125

  coeducational colleges, 37

  Cole, Dr., 162, 163, 167, 220

  Colorado, xi, xii, xiv, 11

  Dawson’s description of, 49

  gold rush in, 72

  labor strife in, 154–56

  state teacher examinations, 87, 124, 125, 126–28

  women’s suffrage in, 97

  Comanche tribe, 48–49

  Confessions of a Maverick (Carpenter autobiography), 45, 52, 78, 169

  Continental Divide, x, xiv, 50, 78, 89, 92, 205

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 17

  Cosel, Peter, xiii, xiv

  Cosel, Rob, xiii

  cowboys, 29, 71, 102, 137, 144

  Craig, Colorado, 76, 96, 102, 128, 209

  Crawford, James, 33, 127

  Crosswhite, Leota and Loretta, 169

  Cunningham, Merce, 224–25

  Custer, Gen. George A., 21

  Czolgosz, Leon, 24

  dance, 124, 135, 136, 196

  ballet, 59–60, 66, 130, 131, 225

  modern dance, xiii, 65–66

  Rocky Mountain Dancing Club (Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp), 124, 128–32, 224–25

  square dance, 224–25

  Dartmouth College, 37

  Dawson, J. B., 48–51

  Dawson, Lavinia, 51

  Debs, Eugene V., 64

  de Mille, Agnes, 224, 225

  democracy, 46, 47, 48, 52, 64, 178.

  See also elections

  Democratic Party, 22

  Denver, Colorado, x, xii, xiii, 8–12, 92, 129, 206, 220

  Brown Palace Hotel, 13

  “empire builders” of, xiv

  Grand Opera House, 11

  Denver Post, 168, 170, 193

  Denver Tramway Company, 12, 92, 153

  Denver Tribune, 11

  Derain, André, 62

  Desert Land Act (1877), 52

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 59, 131

  Dickens, Charles, 175, 191

  domestic science, 29, 83, 114, 117

  Douglass, Frederick, 20

  Dry Fork school, 76, 110, 111

  Dulles, Allen Macy, 80

  Dulles, John Foster, 80

  Duncan, Isadora, 65–66, 130

  Durant, Thomas, 91

  Dying Swan, The (ballet), 131

  Edbrooke, Frank, 11

  elections, 63, 76, 97, 109, 177–78.

  See also democracy

  Elkhead, Colorado, ix, ix, xii, xiii, 13, 28, 51, 75–76, 84–85, 110, 191, 203, 206–7, 212, 220

  Elkhead Mountains, 4, 34, 51, 99

  Elkhead School (Rimrock or Rock School), 109–11, 113–21, 173–77, 190–91, 208, 215, 222, 226

  Elkins, Katherine, 57, 61

  Elmer, Annie, 136

  Elmira College, 36

  Embry, Dot, 150, 160

  Epicurean, The (Ranhofer), 54

  Evans, John, 91

  Fauve movement, 62

  feminists, 22, 80, 96

  Ferguson, Leila, 111, 114, 207, 223

  Ferguson, Richard, 114

  Flynn, Lefty, 137

  Forster, E. M., 61

  Four Walls (Cunningham and Cage), 224–25

  Fraser, Colorado, 96

  Frederickson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, 124–25

  Freeman, William, 18–19, 22

  French language, 26, 35, 55

  girls’ study of, in Paris, 4, 55, 60

  in Smith College entrance examination, 38

  Frontier Thesis, of Turner, 48, 73–75

  Fulton, Charlie, 76–77, 191

  Fulton, Paroda, 76, 77, 191–92, 202, 211, 216

  Galloway, Al, 72

  German language, 26, 38, 59

  Germany, 59, 115

  gold mining, xii, 10, 12

  Gould, George, 92

  Gould, Jay, 92, 93, 95

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nbsp; Goya, Francisco de, 69

  Grand Rapids, Mich., 139, 141, 195, 206, 219

  Grant, Ulysses S., 21

  Great Depression, 217, 219

  Greeley, Horace, 10

  Griffin, Ed, 165, 167

  Guy (wagon driver), 99, 100, 104, 108

  Haley, Ora, 102

  Harriman, E. H., 91, 92–93, 95, 96

  Harrison, Frank, Jr., 113, 116, 137–38, 143, 144, 178, 187, 194, 205, 215, 217

  Harrison, Lewis, 107, 108, 110, 112, 124, 142, 174, 178, 187, 189, 194, 200, 203, 207, 209, 211, 217, 223

  Harrison, Marjorie, 120

  Harrison, Mary, 101, 103, 107, 112, 117, 143–45, 180, 187–88, 194, 209, 217

  Harrison, Ruth, 107, 112, 143

  Harrison, Uriah (Frank), 101, 103, 107, 112, 143–45, 180, 187–88, 205, 215, 217

  Harrison ranch, 29, 101–4, 120, 121, 124–25, 142, 215, 218

  Harvard University, 4, 37, 52, 73, 86

  Hayden, Colorado, xii, xiii, 3, 29, 30, 34, 96, 151–52, 215

  Carpenter’s law practice in, 71–72

  Congregational Church, 71, 222–23

  Hayden Inn, ix, 5, 71, 89, 132, 199

  Heritage Center, 223

  Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer, 31, 225

  Atlas of Colorado, 31–32

  Hayes, Ina, 207

  Hayes, Ray, 114, 120, 123

  Hayes, Roy, 114, 120, 123

  Hayes family, 122–23

  Hazen, Charles, 38

  Heermans, Miriam, 84

  Hickocks, Charlie, 79–80

  Hillman, Caroline (daughter of Dorothy), 220

  Hillman, Lemuel (Lem), 139–41, 181–82, 195, 199, 206, 207, 212–13, 219

  Hillman Guild, 219

  Hitt, William, 57

  Hoffman, Dustin, 225

  Holbrook, Mrs., 183

  Holland, 58

  Holloway, Anne, 150, 160

  Homestead Act (1862), 51, 101

  homesteaders, xii, 13

  cattle barons and, 102

  coal rights of, 74

  Elkhead School and, 111

  government support for, 101–2

  hunting of wildlife by, 178

  Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, 12, 32, 33, 95, 202

  Howe, Cal and Penny, 215

  Howelson, Carl, 202

  Howland family, 65

  Hubbard, Betty and Monroe, 139

  Hughes, Charles, J., Jr., 153

  Hughes, Justice Charles Evans, 143, 177

  Huguenin, Shorty, 179, 195

  Hull House (Chicago), 36, 80, 130, 138, 175

  Ickes, Harold, 217, 218

  immigrants, xii, 80, 101, 152

  Imperial Russian Ballet, 131

  Indian tribes, xii, 6

  Arapaho, 7

  Cayuga, 24–25

 

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