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 his wild spot
embodies the solace and scenery that Boulder residents are so used to enjoying close to home. The mountain canyons
have been places of escape, enjoyment, and recreation, as well as inspiring reminders of a vanishing resource.
Recalling the discrimination she and other black children encountered in Boulder in 1917,
Ruth Cave Flowers tells what a refuge the mountains were.
"You couldn't go in any restaurant, any hot dog stand, any ice cream parlor, any movies. . . [the] thing that
we did. . . was to go hiking. We hiked in, I think, every canyon, and every part of the hills . . .
The mountains were free and we loved them".
Women writers and artists often initiated the preservation of natural and historic sites by recording them for
others. Writer Helen Hunt Jackson's vivid descriptions of
Boulder Canyon helped to convince Mary Rippon
to accept her teaching position at the University of Colorado.
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