Event Summary
Join Pikes Peak Library District as well welcome author, David Primus, to discuss his book Beneath Blue Mesa: The Gunnison River Valley Before the Reservoir.
David will present a slideshow of the history of the Gunnison River Valley before Blue Mesa Reservoir was completed in 1965. He will discuss fishing resorts, ranches, towns, and the narrow gauge railroad that now lie beneath the reservoir as remembered by local residents. Copies of the book will be for sale after the program.
An All Pikes Peak Reads (APPR) program.
About the book:
In the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River. The largest, Blue Mesa Reservoir, was created by the construction of a 390-foot dam at the start of the Black Canyon, inundating 23 miles of the Gunnison River Valley in the 1960s.
Also Occurs On
- Thursday, September 19
