No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days
by Dallas, Sandra
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0806118717
- ISBN 13
- 9780806118710
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Good. 6x0x9. The dustjacket has some chipping, tears, and edgewear. Here is the story of Colorado's old hotelsâsome lavish, some lascivious, a few just long forgotten. Before the turn of the century, when travel was arduous, not to mention downright dangerous, voyagers to the Rocky Mountains wanted to lower their travel-weary limbs into plush chairs, nibble oysters, and sip champagne. No luxury was denied them when they arrived at most Colorado hotels. At the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, for example, an unexpected guest might dine on wild game, tiny French peas, crusty French bread, and properly chilled wine after only a few minutes' wait. At the Sheridan in Telluride a heartier traveler could sit down to a plank steak, named after the piece of wood whose size it resembled. At the Teller House in Central City one could order buffalo tongue in aspic. At Gold Hill, where the miners knew good food if not good French, one could select from Casey's Tabble Dote a cup of coffee demy tass and floatin' Ireland.To the eastern visitors' happy surprise, the hotels for the most part were opulently Victorian, as proper as they were in Boston or Saratoga, with ladies' entrances, ordinaries, and endless private parlors. Yet there was still enough of the raw frontier in hotels where a miner might sleep an eight-hour shift on someone else's sheets for a mere fifty cents. He would sleep in the cold, clawed by a bedmate's spurs and chewed by bedbugs, but he did have one guarantee of relative comfortâthe landlord's posted promise of No More Than Five in a Bed.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010025894
- Title
- No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days
- Author
- Dallas, Sandra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0806118717
- ISBN 13
- 9780806118710
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 6x0x9
- Keywords
- Aspen|skiing
- X weight
- 16 oz
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