 | A Tenderfoot in Colorado Subjects: Colorado -- Description and travel; Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel; Townshend R. B. (Richard Baxter) 1846–1923 -- Travel -- Colorado; Pioneers -- Colorado -- Biography; English -- Colorado -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado; ; Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Richard Baxter Townshend prowled the eastern Rockies and Upper Arkansas for five years before starting a cattle ranch near present-day Colorado Springs. When he recognized the oncoming threat of the homesteader to his way of life, he sold his land and returned to England, where he settled at Wadham College. There he spent his days playing golf and tennis, practicing his shooting, and fascinating his countrymen with the stories found in this volume. |
