Description
The Magic Early Years of Colorado Springs: Instant Civilization
This is a videotaped class.
Instructor: Katherine Sturdevant
For Colorado Springs’ sesquicentennial, it is appropriate that we view how an eastern railroad promoter came, saw, and conquered our region’s resources to make a successful utopian community investment. His supporting cast of fellow business investors, cultural leaders, and a “princess bride” shared the enthusiasm and excitement of post-war frontier discovery and town building with little sense of negative social issues at the time or in the future. It seemed a time and place of possibilities. This is an extended version of a shorter session for the Pikes Peak Library District’s Regional History Symposium in May that is also intended for their published anthology.
Katherine Scott Sturdevant, MA, BA (History) from San Francisco State University, PhD Candidate (Public History) UC Santa Barbara. She is Pikes Peak Community College’s Senior History Professor and started teaching with what became PILLAR when PPCC first offered lifelong learning classes. She has won awards in teaching and diversity. Kathy serves as a speaker, writer, editor, and consultant for community history organizations such as the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum and Pikes Peak Library District. Her first two books teach using historical method in family history. As a social historian, Kathy emphasizes past people’s authentic experiences.
