You will love these pictures of the Trappers Lake Area in Colorado visited in 1918 by Zane Grey. They are provided by Zane Greys West Society President Terry Bolinger who explains: Trappers Lake is a very special place to me . One of the locals showed me where the Grey camp was in 1918. There is a tree there that had empty rifle cartridges hammered into it. The tree burned in the Fish Creek Fire of 2000 or 2001, and you could see the cartridges very well in the charred trunk. (Terry Bolinger and Todd Newport are in the picture.) Grey left Denver on the train, got off in Yampa and stayed at the hotel . His party then took off on horses following Stillwater Creek, up into the Flattops, over Stillwater Pass, and down to Little Trappers Lake, then on to Trappers Lake, where they spent a month or so. (Grey wrote about this trip in the story Colorado Trail which can be found in Tales of Lonely Trails) In Grey’s The Mysterious Rider, set in this area, the heroine is named “Columbine”. I’m sure he got the idea from these columbines near Trappers Lake. Also, Grey seemed to have a penchant for naming his heroines after flowers – witness “The Sego Lily” in The Rainbow Trail. We did the 1998 convention in Grand Junction and the ACT (After Convention Trip) was to Trappers Lake, the first ACT we ever did.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:05:48 +0000
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