The Kite Route. Story Of The Denver & Interurban Railroad

WILLIAM C. AND NOEL T. HOLLEY JONES

Publication: Pruett Publishing Company, 1986, Boulder

First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, title stamped in black on spine, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 159 pp., editor's comment, acknowledgements, illustrated from photographs, maps, double column, bibliography, source of information, index. Great photographs detail the story of a rapid transit system that began in 1908 and offered hourly service at 50 mph speed between Denver and Boulder via Westminister, Broomfield, Louisville and during the summer the Eldorado Springs resort, at a fare of 50 cents. Laid-in to this copy is a tri-fold, reproduction photograph of a 1920 passenger train wreck just north of the Denver city limits, and as a bonus a used ticket from Boulder to Denver dated in pencil on the verso "8-9-08." Fine, unread copy in dust jacket.