Review of Colorado: A Summer Trip

Authors

Kathleen A. Boardman, University of Nevada-Reno

Date of this Version

1991

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

When Bayard Taylor toured Colorado in 1866, he was a veteran travel writer; in the previous twenty years he had visited western Europe, central Africa, California, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Japan, and Russia. Taylor considered himself a poet and translator, and he disliked the label "Great American Traveler." Nevertheless, he knew how to profit from his trips by publishing travel letters and scheduling lectures. Taylor's Colorado letters to the New York Tribune, later published in book form, describe the railroad and stagecoach trip across Kansas to Denver and into the Rockies, a horseback tour of the mountain parks, and the return journey across Nebraska.