Here is the story of Colorado's old hotels-some 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 comfort-the landlord's posted promise of "No
More Than Five in a Bed." "Both entertaining reading and a most
useful guide."-Denver Post "Every page makes entertaining
reading."-Dallas News "Amusing and informative and a fine way to
fill an evening."-Chicago Tribune "The book is light, frothy and
pleasant to read."-St. Louis Post Dispatch Sandra Dallas, a
reporter for Business Week for twenty-five years, is the author of
Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, Cherry Creek Gothic:
Victorian Architecture in Denver (also published by the University
of Oklahoma Press), Gaslights and Gingerbread, many other books and
articles on Colorado and the West, and several best-selling novels.
Marshall Sprague was a well-known Colorado historian and the author
of many books.
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