Based on the artwork of Karol Mack.

Includes index.

"Imagine Estes Park history in luminous color, transforming stern black and white photographs and long-forgotten recollections into fine art. Created over a 20-year span, Artist Karol Mack?s 65 historical oil paintings recreate a forgotten world forever changed through the passage of time. Brian Mack provides incisive commentary about each work of art, firmly anchoring the oil paintings and more than 40 photographs in a timeline that stretches from 2500 B.C. to the present day. Discover what a Ute encampment may have looked like before the white men arrived or how Rocky Mountain Jim?s "Den" appeared through the eyes of Isabella Bird. Appearing alongside stunning landscapes of Longs Peak and Hallett Peak are faithful reproductions of the Rustic Hotel and the New Longs Peak Inn, frozen in time and place. A detailed map locates every painting in the book. Whether you consider this a history or an art book, this compilation will inform while it uplifts the spirit."